Dolphins Brox

Delphine Brox , also Delphine Brox-Brochot (born September 17, 1935 , † March 22, 2008 in Cussy-en-Morvan , Saône-et-Loire department , France ) was a Franco-German environmental activist and politician. From 1979 to 1983 she was a member of the Bremen citizenship for the Bremen Green List .

Life

Brox moved from France to Dortmund in the 1960s to teach on a Franco-German teacher exchange program. In Germany she met her future husband, the Catholic priest Franz Brox. Because of her he gave up his priesthood because of celibacy . She has two children with him.

Since Brox also had German citizenship, the French woman was able to run for Bremen citizenship in 1979 with the Bremen Green List (BGL). With just over five percent of the electorate, the Greens moved into the citizenship with four MPs and were thus represented in a German state parliament for the first time.

Brox's engagement lay particularly in anti-nuclear politics , in peace politics and in women's politics. She took part in rallies against the Brokdorf nuclear power plant and the Kalkar nuclear power plant and against the Gorleben nuclear waste storage facility . The then Mayor of Bremen Hans Koschnick was a political opponent, also because of his support for the Bundeswehr. The BGL was against large industrial settlements such as B. the Daimler-Benz factory in Bremen-Hemelingen , Brox on the other hand also supported the workers of the AG Weser , as their shipyard was threatened with closure. In 1983, in the wake of the shipyard crisis, the BGL was voted out in favor of the Green Party. In 1990, the designated French environment minister, Brice LaLonde , who was to belong to the cabinet of Laurent Fabius ( socialist ), offered Brox the post of state secretary. However, Brox refused. She was then active in citizens' groups.

Later, the Brox couple moved to an inherited country house in Brox's home town of Cussy-en-Morvan in Burgundy, France . Brox continued to be committed to the environment and ran an "open house" with discussion groups and seminars.

Honors

On October 16, 2007, Brox was presented with the Silver Town Hall Coin of the Bremen Senate by a Bremen delegation in the town hall of her hometown . The award ceremony was initiated by Bremen's former mayor Hans Koschnick, despite previous confrontations between the former political opponents. Brox was honored for her commitment to the civil rights movement and peace work as well as for promoting Franco-German cooperation . The award was presented by the then State Councilor Hans-Christoph Hoppensack, who said in his speech: “This is how you ... contributed to the 1963 Franco-German friendship treaty. Later on you made your contribution to understanding, especially in bilateral cultural projects. "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ quoted from Laudowicz, see sources

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Sources freely available online:

• Delphine Brox: Knowing all the tricks doesn't matter (1980). In: Courage: Berliner Frauenzeitung. - 5 (1980), no. 2, pp. 13-16, ISSN 0176-1102, archived in the digital library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
• Edith Laudowicz : "Delphine Brox-Brochot, born Brochot" ( Memento from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Delphine Brox and “Actually I was absolutely apolitical”, interview with Delphine Brox , both in the taz on October 20, 2007

Other sources:

• Reports in the Weser-Kurier on December 13, 1979 and December 13, 1980
• Barfuß, Karl Marten / Müller, Hartmut / Tilgner, Daniel (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005, Vol. 2: 1970–1989, Bremen, p. 76
• Article in the 2004 Abendblatt , accessed March 26, 2008
• Henning Bleyl: The First in Parliament , obituary in the regional supplement taz nord of March 26, 2008, p. 22
• Obituary from Radio Bremen , accessed on March 26, 2008 (no longer available online)