Michael Beleites

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Michael Beleites (October 2008)

Michael Beleites (born September 30, 1964 in Halle (Saale) ) is a trained farmer and was an important player in the environmental movement in the GDR .

Life

Beleites is the son of a pastor . From 1981 to 1983 he trained as a zoological taxidermist in Gera and Berlin . Since 1982 he has been active in church peace and environmental initiatives. Since that time he has been pursued by the MfS with the operational process "entomologist" (including travel bans, prevention of high school graduation and studies). In 1984 he was the initiator of the first protest actions against environmental destruction in the chemical region Wolfen - Bitterfeld and, together with Reinhard Falter, a cross-bloc parallel action by the peace movements in Fulda and Meiningen. In the following years he organized both meetings between the East and West German peace movements in the ČSSR , Hungary and Poland .

Since 1986 he has been doing illegal research into the health and ecological consequences of uranium mining by the SDAG Wismut . In 1988 he gave a lecture on "Uranium Mining in the GDR" at the 1st Ecumenical Assembly in Dresden , and the Wittenberg Church Research Center published its documentation Pechblende - Uranium Mining in the GDR and its Consequences .

In 1989 he was a member of the citizens' committee for the dissolution of the MfS in Gera, in 1990 he was an advisor to the New Forum at the Central Round Table and was committed to opening up the Stasi files. In that year he was also a co-founder of Greenpeace in the GDR.

In 1991 he was an advisor to Greenpeace in Hamburg and in 1992 he was an advisor to the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament . From 1992 to 1995 he studied agriculture at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the agricultural college in Großenhain . In 1996 and 1998 he created exhibitions about Otto Kleinschmidt for the church research center in Wittenberg .

From December 2000 to December 2010 Beleites was the Saxon state representative for the Stasi documents. Since 2011 he has been living as a gardener, freelance author and speaker in Blankenstein near Dresden. In 2014 he published his decades of nature observations and the conclusions based on them in the book Environmental Resonance - Basics of an Organismic Biology . His review of the environmental movement in the GDR , published in 2016, entitled Thick Air: Between Soot and Revolte , was also published as a special edition for the Saxon State Center for Political Education . In this book, with a view to today's environmental degradation in China, Southeast Asia, Africa and South America as a result of Western consumption, he states that people who come to Europe from there must be helped.

Beleites took part as a speaker at the 18th Winter Academy of the Institute for State Policy (IfS), which is considered a new right think tank , from January 19 to 21, 2018 . Through an article in Spiegel , which, according to the headline, deals with the commitment of former GDR civil rights activists for the AfD, he sees himself slandered and defamed because he was “never a member of the AfD or an organization closely related to it” and “never joined the AfD ”and also regards the“ right world of thought ”imputed to him as inaccurate. He "couldn't imagine being put in the right corner because [he] talked to the right," he told the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . In the state elections in Saxony in 2019 , he ran for the free voters as a direct candidate in the constituency of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains 4 and on list position 13.

On November 8, 2019, Beleites gave the speech at the ceremony "30 Years of Peaceful Revolution" in the city of Gera, in which he warned: "Today we must ensure that the disintegration of trust and the ability to trust in the city that goes along with the left-right confrontation Society does not undermine our social and ecological engagement ". In spring 2020 he specified this requirement in an article in the first edition of the new right nature conservation magazine Die Kehre.

Michael Beleites is married and has three children.

Publications

  • Pechblende - uranium mining in the GDR and its consequences , Lutherstadt Wittenberg 1988 Hectographed manuscript. Kirchliches Forschungsheim Wittenberge 1988. The study was published in 1992 in book form under the title Altlast Wismut by Brandes & Apsel Frankfurt / M.
  • Underground. A conflict with the Stasi in the uranium province. BasisDruck, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-86-163044-3 .
  • Bismuth contaminated site. State of emergency, environmental disaster and the rehabilitation problem in German uranium mining. Frankfurt (Main) 1992.
  • Michael Beleites, Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf, Robert Grünbaum (ed.): Class struggle against the peasants. The forced collectivization of East German agriculture and its consequences to this day. Metropol, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940938961 .
  • Do not lose sight of the questions of the future. Thoughts after ten years as the state representative for the Stasi documents. In: Horch und Guck Heft 71 (01/2011), pp. 70-75 ( on the net ).
  • Model Switzerland or Kazakhstan? On the development of rural areas in Saxony. AbL Bauernblatt Verlags GmbH, Hamm, 2012, ISBN 978-3-930413-54-6 .
  • Environmental resonance - basics of an organismic biology. Telesma-Verlag , Treuenbrietzen , 2014, ISBN 978-3-941094-13-0 .
  • Thick air: between soot and revolt. The independent environmental movement in the GDR . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt , Leipzig, 2016, ISBN 978-3-374-04271-5 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Veen u. a. (Ed.): Lexicon of opposition and resistance in the SED dictatorship. Econ Ullstein List Verlag, Berlin / Munich 2000, pp. 68f.
    Michael Beleites, Michael: Exclusion as fate and opportunity. In: Peter Finke (Ed.): Free Citizens - Free Research. Science leaves the ivory tower. oekom verlag, Munich 2015. pp. 55–59.
  2. ^ Ehrhart Neubert: History of the opposition in the GDR 1949–1989. Federal Agency for Civic Education (Series of publications, Volume 346) Bonn 1997, p. 510.
  3. ↑ Michael Beleites: Thick Air: Between Soot and Revolt. The independent environmental movement in the GDR. Series of publications by the Saxon State Commissioner for Stasi Records, Volume 16. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2016, pp. 34ff.
  4. ↑ Michael Beleites: Underground. A conflict with the Stasi in the uranium province. Berlin. 2nd ext. Edition, 1992.
    Michael Beleites, Roland Geipel: Late occupation - early file opening. The citizens' committee and the control of the dissolution of the Stasi in Gera. In: Harald Frank (Ed.): Aufbruch 1989. Contemporary witnesses from Gera. Publishing house Dr. Frank GmbH, Gera 2009, pp. 35-51.
  5. ↑ Michael Beleites: Otto Kleinschmidt's theory of the circle of shapes - a different view of nature. Letters for orientation in the human-earth conflict. 17th year (1996) 39th ed. From the Kirchliches Forschungsheim Wittenberg 1996 (31 pages).
  6. ↑ Michael Beleites: Stasi files in federal and state archives? On the controversy about the prospects of the Stasi records management. Germany Archive 1/2005, pp. 102-107.
  7. ↑ Michael Beleites: Environmental resonance. Basics of an organismic biology. Telesma-Verlag, Treuenbrietzen 2014, pp. 617–621.
  8. ^ A b Thomas Gerlach: From Stasi investigator to field researcher: The Saxon anti-Darwinist . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 19, 2014, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on September 12, 2019]).
  9. ↑ a b c Konstantin von Hammerstein: In East Germany: Why former civil rights activists are now involved in the AfD . In: Der Spiegel . January 7, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 3, 2018]).
  10. ^ Michael Beleites: Thick air: between soot and revolt: the independent environmental movement in the GDR . Special edition for the Saxon State Center for Political Education. Saxon State Center for Political Education, Dresden 2016 ( dnb.de [accessed on September 12, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Michael Beleites: Thick Air. The independent environmental movement in the GDR . 2016, p. 239.
  12. ↑ Michael Beleites: Migration & Homeland: Respecting Identities. In: www.michael-beleites.de. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
  13. ↑ 18th Winter Academy January 19-21, 2018 in Schnellroda. (PDF) Institute for State Policy, accessed on March 3, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Lecture text by Michael Beleites on the 18th Winter Academy January 19-21, 2018 in Schnellroda. (PDF) Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Stefan Seidel: More moral in the media! In: Der Sonntag (Saxony). January 23, 2018, accessed September 12, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Alexander Schierholz: Former GDR environmental activist: Michael Beleites, a right-wing? In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . September 24, 2018, accessed September 12, 2019 .
  17. ^ Candidate Michael Beleites (FREE VOTERS). In: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk . July 15, 2019, accessed September 12, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Michael Beleites: Citizen of this city. In: gedenkbibliothek.de. November 8, 2019, accessed June 29, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Andreas Speit: Right eco-magazine "Die Kehre": Taking the green from nature conservation . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 2, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 8, 2020]).
  20. ↑ Michael Beleites: The man-made overheating on the entropy of industrial society. In: www.michael-beleites.de. 2020, accessed June 29, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Lara Mallien, Johannes Heimrath: The language of the blue tits. oya - think differently. to live differently. No. 26 (May / June 2014), pp. 42–45.
  22. ^ Uranium mining in the GDR: The underground publication "Pechblende" (accessed: July 10, 2015 9:17 am).
personal data
SURNAME Beleites, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and co-founder of the environmental movement in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)