Out of Focus

Ihre Kinder , Amon Duul (not 2) are the ones I remember present in the PA DB.

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BTW, the Swedish Progg movement was also very politically slanted.

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Amon Düül was originally based in Berlin West, but when the Great Schism arrived, AD2 moved to Munich and became a hippie/psych/prog faction, whereas those that stayed in Berlin recorded a few albums until 73. Definitely their musical best (but maybe not most political one) was ParadiesWärt, which was folk-influenced. The only one I bothered keeping around for a while, though I still have four AD2 albums.

There was also a faction that relocated to London during the 80's, but I never investidated.

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Don't expect AD or IK to sound anything close top OOF, though.

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This is not accurate as far as I know. Amon Düül started in Munich (original members are from around there as far as it is known; German Wikipedia page confirms this as well as Ingeborg Schober's book, which chances are isn't available anymore - unfortunately I don't have it anymore so need to rely on memory). They had contacts to Berlin and there were maybe two people from Berlin joining at some point, but they were based in Munich, ADII the whole time (not sure whether members of AD after the split relocated to Berlin). 

In any case, they were very political actually, very radical, but they didn't do political lyrics. The split came because ADII wanted to focus on the music, which they did, with some success. I have read or listened to a number of interviews; the members are political to this day, but this wasn't directly expressed in the music, and wasn't a major focus. AD were more polticial and not much interested in musical proficiency, and as far as I know their albums all stem from a single session (or set of sessions), and as far as I'm concerned, there isn't much musically worthwhile in them, and neither are there political lyrics.  The music (also ADII, of whom I'm a big fan) was anti-establishment though, it sounded much different from the mainstream in Germany, and it was clear that that was their position.

Many Krautrockers were quite political by the way, even if their music doesn't directly say so. I  think I remember having heard or read more or less radical political statements from members of Embryo, Ougenweide, Guru Guru, probably also Faust. Like ADII, Can decidedly chose music over politics, but it was pretty clear what they thought. Grobschnitt and Novalis occasionally had political messages in their lyrics, though this was mostly later. 

moshkito wrote: I was thinking that FLOH DE COLOGNE might fit in the political arena, though I have never seen a proper translation of their stuff, which had a way of suggesting that it is not that important, but it does seem to have a wide satirical edge.

Yup Floh is the biggie Polit Rock (can't believe I forgot them) and there is one other big name §yey've got an album with barbed wires on the cover) that doesn't come to mind as I speak

(I'll check out my Cosmic Dreams At Play, as soon as I'm close to it)

Apparently Grobschitt's lyrics & comments between tracks were also rather political.