He decorated his work-place with a portrait of Bismarck and erotic photographs and insulted each morning the cleaning personnel in French.
In this time of personal crisis, he became famous In Hamburg for scrawling and scribbling all over the city, using mailboxes, billboards, traffic signs and subway stations and leaving whenever possible his business card: Peter-Ernst Eiffe, Wandsbeker Chaussee 305, 2000 Hamburg 22, including the phone number.
He was seen ever more frequently at student assemblies, dressed in a suit with white shirt and tie, pushing for the microphone and explaining his theories about the subversive power of the joke.
His friend Fritz Teufel nominated him as speaker for the May Day campaign of the APO in Berlin, where he announced under the cheers of thousands his desire to become the chancellor of students and demonstrators.
On May 30, 1968, he drove his car with the slogan "Freie Eiffe-Republik" (Free Eiffe Republic) into the main hall of the central station of Hamburg and started to decorate the tiles with triangles.
Christian Bau recalled his life in one-hour documentary film with the title Eiffe for president, alle Ampeln auf gelb, which was shown in 1996 in independent cinemas.