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This article researches the dispute over the Gesamtschule and political activity of teacher organizations in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s. The traditional dual school system in Germany has for a long time been criticized, because it was considered as the cause of a hierarchical inequality. The Gesamtschule was presented as a school model designed to transform such a traditional system into a new system. However, the debate over the introduction of a comprehensive school, which began in the mid-1960s, was finally stalled after fierce debate in the 1970s: above all the confrontation over the Kooperative Schule in Nordrhein-Westfalen. In this process, the interest groups that had been particularly active were teacher organizations. The Philologenverband wanted maintain the existing system, but on the contrary the GEW aimed at the full introduction of new system. Unlike them, there was the VBE that adopted a moderate stance. Here we will look at how the groups worked to bring their interests into education policy. It will reveal how individual interest groups in a pluralistic society have been able to participate in the social and political discussion process and exercise their influence.