The directors of Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) asked the police to end a six-week student sit-in in one of their lecture halls. The students had previously accused the directors of starving them out.
The massive student protests across Germany this week appear to have prodded officials to undertake educational reforms, including changes to bachelor's programmes and financial aid.
Some 60 people began a three-day hunger strike in Berlin on Friday to demand the release of political prisoners in Iran, a month after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
As unrest in China continues after bloody weekend riots in the Xinjiang region, police in Munich are investigating an arson attack on the Chinese consulate in Munich early on Tuesday morning.
Around 2,000 people demonstrated against what they fear are American nuclear weapons stored at the airforce base in Büchel in the German state Rhineland-Palatinate at the weekend.
Seven German demonstrators who were arrested in Berlin on Sunday during the first-ever swearing in ceremony for new Bundeswehr recruits in front of the Reichstag parliament building have been released, police said on Monday.
Several hundred smokers, cafe and pub owners puffed their way through the Brandenburg Gate and Berlin to the city hall on Saturday to protest against the smoking ban.