In the fall of 1982, the social-liberal coalition under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt broke up. The event overshadowed the ongoing debate about the spring census. But postponed was not lifted. In the first few months of 1983, a heated debate erupted about the “Law on a Population, Occupation, Housing and Workplace Census” before the Federal Constitutional Court declared it unconstitutional – much to the annoyance of the more radical opponents of the census, who expected a confrontation were out with the system. The court ruling justified modern data protection in the Federal Republic. But when a heavily revised law was passed and the census started four years late in 1987, the waves had by no means calmed down…
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