Action and human chain from Krümmel to Brunsbüttel

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Course of the chain
Human chain in Uetersen
Sigmar Gabriel

The action and human chain from Krümmel to Brunsbüttel , from the organizer KETTENreAKTION! called, was a protest against nuclear energy on April 24, 2010. It took place on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe two days later and against the background of the term extensions for nuclear power plants discussed in German politics .

Human chain and events

120,000 people demonstrated and formed a human chain on a 127 km stretch from the Krümmel nuclear power plant via Hamburg to the Brunsbüttel nuclear power plant . The participants traveled to 124 collection points in several special trains and around 240 buses from all over Germany, as well as from Austria, Poland and Italy. The largest special trains were those with the citizens' initiative Gundremmingen from Bavaria with 1,000 members and a special train from Berlin with 700 participants.

A program of speakers and music took place at seven locations along the route ( Glückstadt , Elmshorn , Uetersen , Pinneberg , Schenefeld , Hamburg and Geesthacht ). The artists included Jan Delay and Friends, Das Bo , DJ Mad , Microphone Mafia , Rantanplan , Dota and Abi Wallenstein . There were massive traffic problems at the main venues as the main roads were blocked by participants.

At the same time, around 10,000 opponents of nuclear power (according to the police, around 20,000 according to the organizers) surrounded the Hessian Biblis nuclear power plant and formed a 4 km long human chain around the facility. SPD state chairman Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel , several SPD members of the state parliament and representatives of the Jusos, as well as the parliamentary group leader of the Greens, Tarek Al-Wazir , and eleven other members of the Greens took part in the event.

7000 people demonstrated in front of the Ahaus transport container warehouse in western Münsterland .

The organizer was a group of sponsors that included the following initiatives: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Schacht Konrad, Attac Germany , broadcast - jointly against nuclear energy , the Federal Association for Renewable Energies, the Federation for Environmental and Nature Conservation , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , Campact , DGB Nord, Deutscher Naturschutzring , Deutsche Umwelthilfe , Die Linke , Thomas Schaack, Environment Officer of the North Elbe Church, Eurosolar , Evangelical Youth Hamburg, Forum together against the interim storage facility and for a responsible energy policy (Gundremmingen), Green Youth , IG Metall coast, IG Metall Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, IG Metall Unterelbe, International Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War , Young Socialists in the SPD , Climate Alliance Germany , Germany's Friends of Nature , Social Democratic Party Germany , Umwelthaus am Schüberg of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Hamburg-East, ver.di Nord.

In addition, well-known artists called for the planned mass protests. The signatories of the appeal included the writers Sten Nadolny , Tilman Spengler and Günter Grass as well as the actresses Kristin Meyer , Eleonore Weisgerber , Andrea Sawatzki and Cosma Shiva Hagen . The musicians Udo Lindenberg , Max Mutzke , Jan Delay, Konstantin Wecker , the actors Wolfgang Völz , Günter Lamprecht and Hannes Jaenicke , the filmmakers Pepe Danquart and Rolf Schübel , the television presenter and author Sarah Kuttner signed the appeal.

A human chain of the same size was the last protest on October 22, 1983 against retrofitting in the NATO member states with 200,000 participants over a length of 108 km between Stuttgart and Neu-Ulm .

Well-known participants and speakers

  • Renate Künast , chairwoman of the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ( Raa-Besenbek human chain )
  • Jürgen Trittin , parliamentary group leader of the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen (speaker Brokdorf, human chain Raa-Besenbek)
  • Sigmar Gabriel , SPD party leader and former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (speaker Elmshorn, human chain Raa-Besenbek)
  • Cem Özdemir , Federal Chairman of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party (Hamburg human chain)
  • Claudia Roth , Federal Chairwoman of the Alliance 90 / The Greens party (Hamburg human chain)
  • Christa Goetsch , second mayor and senator for schools, vocational and advanced training of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
  • Klaus Ernst , trade unionist and deputy chairman of Die Linke party (speaker Brokdorf)
  • Ralf Stegner , chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and since 2007 regional chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein SPD (human chain)
  • Franziska Drohsel , Federal Chairwoman of the Jusos (human chain)
  • Steffi Lemke , federal political director of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party (human chain)
  • Andrea Nahles , General Secretary of the SPD and spokesperson for the Labor and Social Working Group of the SPD parliamentary group (Geesthacht human chain)
  • Ulrike Mehl , Deputy Federal Chairwoman of the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND) (Speaker Brokdorf)
  • Jochen Stay , German environmental activist, peace activist and publicist, spokesman for an anti-nuclear organization since 2008 (broadcast) (Speaker Hamburg)

criticism

Some ecologically oriented companies are said to have sponsored buses and special trains, Lauenburg FDP member of the Bundestag Christel Happach-Kazan criticized : "The fundamental right to freedom of demonstration must not be instrumentalized by PR strategists of state-funded eco-corporations as a marketing instrument."

Web links

Commons : CHAIN ​​REACTION  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 120,000 against nuclear power. In: taz , April 24, 2010 ( online )
  2. ↑ Sigmar's Show. In: stern , April 25, 2010 ( online )
  3. ↑ Human chain mobilizes against nuclear power. In: DIE WELT , April 24, 2010 ( online )
  4. ↑ 120 kilometers of resistance. In: Spiegel online , April 24, 2010 ( online )
  5. ↑ Chain reaction against nuclear power. In: Die Zeit , April 24, 2010 ( online )
  6. ↑ Opponents of nuclear power plants die symbolically. In: hr online, April 24, 2010 ( human chain against nuclear power: ambitious goals far exceeded (5 articles) - press releases ( memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ))
  7. ↑ a b c d Atomic protest over a length of 120 kilometers. In: Norddeutsche Rundschau , April 26, 2010
  8. ↑ a b c Hand in hand against nuclear power: In: Pinneberger Tageblatt , April 26, 2010.
  9. ↑ 10,000 people hand in hand - a chain across Elmshorn. In: Elmshorner Nachrichten , April 26, 2010
  10. ↑ a b c Menschenkette, Jürgen Trittin and Sigmar Gabriel line up in Raa-Besenbek. In: Uetersener Nachrichten , April 26, 2010
  11. ↑ "Nuclear power - no thanks": 100,000 in the human chain In: bergedorfer-zeitung.de, April 23, 2010 ( online )