Schleswig-Holstein Green List

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The Green List Schleswig-Holstein (GLSH) was a predecessor organization of the party The Greens , founded in May 1978 , which was not finally absorbed into the federal party until 1982 after flow struggles, split and merger.

history

For the local elections in March 1978, environmentally-friendly voter communities ran for the first time in Schleswig-Holstein. In the Steinburg district , in which the Brokdorf nuclear power plant is located, the Green List of independent voters was running , in the North Friesland district - where a nuclear power plant was planned in the Wadden Sea - the North Friesland Green List. They moved into the district councils with 6.6 and 6.0 percent of the vote, respectively . From them the nationally active GLSH emerged, which achieved 2.4 percent in the state elections in 1979 and thus failed at the five percent hurdle . For years the SPD accused her of having prevented a change of government from Gerhard Stoltenberg (CDU Prime Minister) to the SPD's top candidate, Klaus Matthiesen , with the votes she had "given away" .

Also in 1979, the GLSH, together with the GLU Lower Saxony , the AUD , the GAZ , the Free International University , the Third Way Campaign (A3W) and representatives of other citizens' initiatives participated in the formation of the joint electoral list “Other Political Association (SPV) -Die Greens ” for the European elections . In 1980 it was one of the founding organizations of the federal green party. Just a few weeks after the party was founded, many GLSH members left the federal party because the Greens' program adopted at the second federal party conference in Saarbrücken seemed too left-leaning to them; Group Z stood.

Thus, there were two green parties in Schleswig-Holstein, the explicitly left-wing regional association of the federal party and the more conservative GLSH. In 1982 this led to two green formations each running for local elections in the independent cities of Flensburg and Lübeck. In both cities, the overall Green result was above the national average, but could not be converted into town hall mandates due to the respective splitting. As a result, a reunification of the parties was sought, with the dual members playing a mediating role.

In November 1982, after long and turbulent merger negotiations, the GLSH merged with the Schleswig-Holstein State Association of the Greens . Their best-known member, Baldur Springmann , was no longer there, he and others had founded the ÖDP . The Maaßen buoy , who is also a central figure , still functioned as the top candidate of the Greens in the state elections in 1983 , but then turned his back, like many other former GLSH members of the party.

The GLSH chairman was Brar Riewerts , the main school principal in Husum . Green members of the Bundestag with roots in the GLSH were Gerd Peter Werner and Thomas Wüppesahl . The former chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein parliamentary group of the Greens, Irene Fröhlich , also began her political path in the GLSH.

literature

  • Makoto Nishida: Currents in the Greens (1980–2003): An analysis of informally organized groups within the Greens. LIT Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-9174-7
  • Jürgen Oetting: Self-blockade in the north. In: Joachim Raschke (Ed.): The Greens. How they became what they are. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-2256-5488-4 , pp. 378-384.

Single receipts

  1. ^ District association of Bündnis90 / Die Grünen Steinburg ( Memento from October 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Jürgen Oetting, self-blockade in the north (Schleswig-Holstein) , in: Joachim Raschke (ed.), The Greens. How they became what they are. Cologne 1993, pp. 378-384, here p. 378.
  3. ↑ Their imminent failure was only averted by the fact that the federal board forced its regional association to make concessions to the GLSH. See Jürgen Oetting, Selbstblockade im Norden (Schleswig-Holstein) , in: Joachim Raschke (Ed.), Die Grünen. How they became what they are. Cologne 1993, pp. 378-384, here p. 379.
  4. ↑ Neues Forum, Vol. 25-26, Notes: Ed. 25-26 - 1978
  5. ↑ Ludger Volmer : The Greens: From the protest movement to the established party - a balance sheet. Bertelsmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 3-5701-0040-5 , p. 173
  6. ↑ Across the course. In: Der Spiegel . Edition 10/1983 of March 7, 1983, p. 28
  7. ↑ Jürgen Oetting, self-blockade in the north (Schleswig-Holstein) , in: Joachim Raschke (ed.), The Greens. How they became what they are. Cologne 1993, pp. 378-384, here p. 379.
  8. ↑ According to the company's own information, two weeks after the state elections, see Maaßen homepage: The Green Party in 1980 , accessed on February 10, 2017.