Federal delegates' conference of Alliance 90 / The Greens in Bielefeld 1999

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Event location Seidensticker Halle

The Federal Delegates Conference of Alliance 90 / The Greens in Bielefeld in 1999 was an Extraordinary Congress of the Party of the Greens on 13 May 1999 in Bielefeld . The content was about NATO's participation in the Kosovo war .

The conference had to be protected by the police because of demonstrators who had blocked the entrance to the Seidensticker Halle . There were arrests. About 1,500 police officers were on duty.

Joschka Fischer's speech

Joschka Fischer was Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany in a red-green federal government at the time . He was also President of the Council of the European Union .

Before his speech, Fischer was thrown with a bag of red paint and suffered a tear in his eardrum. Before Fischer, Antje Radcke and Angelika Beer had promoted the lead proposal.

Fischer's speech was one of the most important of the event. In this speech, Fischer legitimized the first German war mission after the Second World War , when German troops took part in NATO's mission in the Kosovo war .

Fischer used the following words in his speech: “ Auschwitz is incomparable. But I stand on two principles, never again war, never again Auschwitz, never again genocide , never again fascism . For me, both belong together ”.

Result

The majority of the delegates voted for German participation in the NATO mission. 444 delegates supported the federal board's proposal. The motion by Claudia Roth , Christian Ströbele and others, who demanded an immediate unconditional termination of the NATO attacks, received 318 votes.

Reactions

Fischer's comparison with Auschwitz was criticized by the journalist Barbara Supp in Der Spiegel : “And then Joschka Fischer spoke of a new Auschwitz that the Serb Milošević was planning and that could only be prevented by war. Auschwitz - the ultimate means. The war in Kosovo, even though international law spoke against it, was fair and without alternative. It was called 'humanitarian intervention'. Anyone who opposed it would be an ally of the Serbian murderers. "

Brigadier General Heinz Loquai , dismissed by Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping , commented on the comparisons between Fischer and Scharping: “Here I really have to control myself because the comparison with Auschwitz and the situation in Kosovo is a monstrous assertion. As a German, one has to be ashamed that German ministers have done such a thing, because a normal person, a normal German, will be summoned to court if he belittles Auschwitz to such an extent. And that a German minister spoke of concentration camps in Kosovo is on the same line, because concentration camps are institutions of a specific historical situation, namely the National Socialist period in Germany. And I think it's basically outrageous that Germans in particular have chosen these comparisons. "

In contrast to Fischer, those who agreed to the NATO action were not aware of all parts of the Rambouillet Treaty . Angelika Beer later criticized: "Fischer did not use all diplomatic leeway in the negotiations and withheld information about the contract."

According to Ströbele, this influenced the result of the vote in favor of Joschka Fischer's motion.

The decision of the party congress itself led to a number of party withdrawals, including that of Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens .

Even at the office of Joschka Fischer and Rudolf Scharping , the participating Bundeswehr also at war in Afghanistan from December 2,001th

See also

literature

Web links

Text and video of Joschka Fischer's speech

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. gruene.de : Interview with Reinhard Bütikofer about the Kosovo special party conference in Bielefeld 1999 (October 25, 2010).
  2. ↑ Police batons protect party congress. In: Spiegel Online. May 13, 1999, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Thewalt: "Joschka" as a target of anger. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. May 14, 1999, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wording: Excerpts from the Fischer speech. In: Spiegel Online. May 13, 1999, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ http://www.gruene.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Bilder/Redaktion/30_Jahre_-_Serie/Teil_22_Bielefeld/Kosovo-Antrag_BuVo_Frieden_und_Menschrechte_vereinbaren.pdf
  6. ↑ Frauke Stamer: Fischer successfully appeals to the Greens: Party congress approves the government's Kosovo course. In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 14, 1999, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Barbara Supp: The dirty truth . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 2010, p. 25 ( online - April 26, 2010 ).
  8. ↑ cit. after It started with a lie - ag-friedensforschung.de (accessed on August 21, 2018); see. Marcel Baumann: Absolutely evil ?: The logic of killing and the moral legitimacy of terrorism (Springer Texts in Statistics) 2013, p.208 f.
  9. ↑ cf. Appendix B: Status of Multi-National Military Implementation Force ; NATO wanted war ; The Rambouillet Treaty: An Unacceptable Occupation Statute for Yugoslavia?
  10. ↑ Andreas Zumach: The Rambouillet lie: What did Joschka Fischer know? In: taz, the daily newspaper. April 12, 1999, accessed September 23, 2017 .
  11. ↑ http://www.geschichte-treffen.de/ich-habe-mich-geschaemt/
  12. ^ Paul Lersch, Hartmut Palmer, Hajo Schumacher, Hans-Jörg Vehlewald: Greens: D-Day in Bielefeld . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1999, p. 28 f . ( online - May 17, 1999 ).
  13. ↑ Despite Bielefeld's decision, no Green Party motion for the Kosovo war. In: The world. May 19, 1999, accessed April 12, 2019 .