Christa Reetz

Christa Reetz , née Eckstein , (born November 16, 1922 in Arnstadt , † June 21, 2009 in Offenburg ) was a German environmental activist and politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .

Life and work

Reetz grew up in Arnstadt and attended a language school there before taking her Abitur at an evening school in Berlin . In 1944 she married Werner Reetz, with whom she moved to Offenburg after the Second World War , where her husband found a job at the Freiburg Oberpostdirektion and was assigned to the then Telecommunications Office Offenburg. The couple had a son and four daughters. Christa Reetz worked as an interpreter , stenographer and programmer - for many years at Burda-Verlag . In 1982 she retired.

In the post-war period she campaigned against the establishment of the Bundeswehr and its integration into NATO . In the 1970s she campaigned against the construction of the Wyhl nuclear power plant - which was ultimately not built - and became known nationwide as one of the main protagonists of the protest movement. At around the same time, she began her involvement in the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives Environmental Protection (BBU). During her time as a member of its executive board from 1985 to 1995, she focused on the dangers posed by toxic waste dumps and waste incineration plants and was responsible for the establishment of numerous relevant citizens' initiatives. She had contacted church environmental groups in the GDR early on and provided them with information. One of their last major initiatives in Offenburg in 1994 was their campaign against the construction of a large parking garage on Grabenallee, which the majority of the population ultimately rejected in a postal vote. She represented the BBU well into old age with information stands at Catholic Days , Evangelical Church Days and environmental fairs - for example, a few weeks before her death at the Evangelical Church Conference in Bremen in 2009 .

At the age of 86, Reetz died of a stroke and was buried in the Offenburg Weingarten cemetery.

Political activities

In 1980, Reetz became the first “green” member of the Offenburg city council to join the “Citizens' Initiative Environmental Protection Offenburg”. In the federal election in 1983 , she was elected to the German Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list of the Greens . As early as April 16, 1985, she left parliament due to the rotation principle still practiced within the parliamentary group . For she moved Torsten Lange after.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 671.

Individual evidence