Association for environmental protection

The Federation for Environmental Protection (BfU) was an association founded in 1971 that campaigned for environmental protection.

At the beginning of the 1970s, citizens' concerns about environmental degradation grew to such an extent that the term environmental protection became a catchphrase. So it was not unusual that in Tübingen in 1970, after Prof. Harald Stumpf's lecture Survival in the Atomic Age, a group of students spontaneously formed and started their political work under the name of the “Committee for Environmental Protection”.

In order to open up the environmental protection issue more to the rest of the citizenry after a few differences, the teacher and doctoral student Hartmut Gründler founded the Tübingen “Bund for Environmental Protection” (BfU) in spring 1971, in which he up until his exclusion and the alternative establishment of his “ working group Lebensschutz - Nonviolent Campaign in Environmental Protection eV “worked intensively.

Shortly afterwards, the matter and the term “BfU” were copied in at least two cities, namely in neighboring Reutlingen (BfU Reutlingen, spokesman Gustav Pfeifer) and in nearby Metzingen (BfU Ermstal / Alb, spokesman Frieder Lorch). All three associations were very active until the 1980s, primarily in the dispute over nuclear energy and the fight against the planned Reutlingen-Mittelstadt nuclear power plant .

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Science shop Tübigen: history

Individual evidence

^ In memory of Hartmut Gründler. In: Luise Schramm: Evangelical Church and anti-nuclear movement. The example of the Hamburg initiative of church workers and nonviolent action in the conflict over the Brokdorf nuclear power plant from 1976–1981. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2018. ISBN 978-3-525-55792-1 . P. 236 ff.

[1] In memory of Hartmut Gründler. In: Luise Schramm: Evangelical Church and anti-nuclear movement. The example of the Hamburg initiative of church workers and nonviolent action in the conflict over the Brokdorf nuclear power plant from 1976–1981. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2018. ISBN 978-3-525-55792-1 . P. 236 ff.