Green League

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Green League
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purpose Promotion of nature and environmental protection and active participation in the creation of an ecological society based on solidarity
Chair: René Schuster
Establishment date: 3rd February 1990
Number of members: 30,000
Seat : Berlin
Website: grueneliga.de
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The Green League ( proper spelling : GREEN LIGA ) was founded on November 18, 1989 and February 3, 1990 in the GDR as a "network of ecological movements". Founding members were u. a. Reimar Gilsenbach , Matthias Platzeck and the first speaker and long-time chairman of the board Klaus Schlüter . The roots of the organization lie in the church environmental movement of the GDR, which the GDR state fought heavily at times, and the state-tolerated and channeled ecology groups in the GDR cultural association .

history

It was founded expressly as a decentralized network and thus in contrast to party politics and the party-like way of part of the environmental movement into parliaments, which is known from West Germany. However, some environmentalists encountered this at the meeting on November 18, 1989 in the Confessional Church in Alt-Treptow to found the Green League by distributing an appeal for the founding of the Green Party in the GDR . As early as May 1989, the Arche green-ecological network had decided to draw up a list of its own candidates for the next Volkskammer election and published the call for founding after the political upheaval in autumn 1989 on November 5th.

The original idea of ​​the league to network as many East German environmental groups as possible failed due to the expansion of the large West German environmental organizations ( DBV / NABU , BUND , WWF , Greenpeace ) to the east. There was initially close and equal cooperation with the West German Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives Environmental Protection (BBU), with which the Green League is most closely comparable; however, a permanent east-west network only came about in a few areas. Today the Green League is represented differently in the five new federal states and Berlin. In Saxony and Berlin it is quite present and diverse, while in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania it has only a few active people. As a member of the German Nature Conservation Ring , the Green League is networked nationwide.

The association deals with many topics from the environmental sector and partly beyond (social, economic, peace). There are federal contact points and specialist working groups in the fields of energy ( lignite , renewable energies , nuclear energy ), rock mining , international issues ( Eastern Europe ), agriculture / genetic engineering , sustainable regional development , transport , water ( river expansion , water framework directive ).

Bicycle demonstration of the Green League in an action alliance with the Green Party, 1990

The technical and political spectrum is broad. In addition to many smaller, independent, but well-networked groups that primarily do nature conservation and educational work, but also carry out effective actions and campaigns , there are eco-anarchist theory and practice in some groups, as well as large-scale projects with company sponsorship and state funds in some regional associations. The Green League in Brandenburg is committed to B. against new lignite opencast mines and for a sustainable conversion of the energy system, and the Green League Saxony criticizes the effects of renewable energies on nature and the landscape.

structure

In 2003 the network had about 29,000 members. Due to the open network structure , the Green League has many legally independent member associations and groups, so that the number of members cannot be specified precisely. Each of the network members was responsible for contributions and other financing, as well as for the content. Initially there was no central office, only a voluntary federal spokesman's council and a coordinating federal office with a full-time employee.

Since 2009, the Green League has been an association recognized under Section 3 of the Environmental Remedies Act . Both the state associations and the federal association are registered associations and have been recognized as non-profit since 2015 .

There are currently four regional associations:

  • Berlin
  • Brandenburg, based in Potsdam
  • Saxony, based in Dresden
  • Thuringia, based in Weimar

There are also several regional associations such as the GRÜNE LIGA Dresden / Oberes Elbtal eV or the GRÜNE LIGA Osterzgebirge eV , as well as 45 natural persons as individual members.

The association publishes the environmental magazines Alligator (nationwide), Der Rabe Ralf (Berlin) and smaller regional publications, all of which also deal with social and economic issues. He also organizes the annual environmental festival in Berlin .

The Green League Berlin has been running the Brückentin Youth Conservation Academy with residential and seminar houses on the south-eastern edge of the Müritz National Park in Mecklenburg since 1994 .

Legal success

The Green League Saxony became known nationwide due to its successful action before the Federal Administrative Court against the planning approval decision for the Waldschlößchenbrücke in Dresden , which was unlawful according to the judgment of July 15, 2016. On June 1, 2017, the Federal Administrative Court issued a ruling that enforced a provisional ban on the use of a section of the Elster Cycle Path that was built in a protected area without the required permit . In addition, she temporarily achieved her goals with lawsuits before the Dresden Administrative Court against the shooting permit for the Wolf bei Ralbitz , before the Chemnitz Administrative Court against the Striegistalradweg and before the Federal Administrative Court about the admissibility of a lawsuit against the definition of flight routes over Leipzig nature reserves.

In February 2019, the Green League and Deutsche Umwelthilfe filed a lawsuit against the main operating plan of the Jänschwalde open-cast lignite mine (Spree-Neisse) because neighboring, particularly protected areas such as moors are at risk. In August, the Cottbus Administrative Court decided that operations should be temporarily suspended from September 2019, as the environmental impact assessment for European FFH protected areas ( Fauna-Flora-Habitat ) by the Brandenburg State Office for Mining, Geology and Raw Materials could not be carried out within the set deadline . The administrative court rejected the application for an extension of the deadline submitted by the operator LEAG .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statutes of the GREEN LIGA. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  2. ^ Neubert, History of the Opposition in the GDR 1949–1989 , 2000, pp. 750, 812.
  3. ^ Green League: Member of the DNR. DNR, accessed September 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Green League Expert Working Group Lignite: Alternatives are feasible. In: kein-tagebau.de. September 24, 2015, accessed March 20, 2018 .
  5. ^ Green League Saxony eV: pause for reflection on renewable energies. In: grueneliga-sachsen.de. February 19, 2018, accessed March 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Environment and nature conservation associations recognized by the federal government. June 17, 2019, accessed September 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Annual Report 2015. Accessed September 4, 2019 .
  8. ^ Bruckentin Youth Conservation Academy ( Memento from August 21, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on August 21, 2014
  9. ↑ Thomas Baumann-Hartwig: Waldschlößchenbrücke: Green League wins, Free State feels like a winner. In: Dresdner Latest News. July 15, 2016, accessed November 2, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Federal Administrative Court: Ban on using illegally built cycle paths in FFH areas. In: Press release No. 40/2017. June 1, 2017, accessed November 2, 2018 .
  11. ↑ dpa-infocom GmbH: Green League prevails with lawsuit against Elster-Radweg. In: The world. June 1, 2017, accessed November 2, 2018 .
  12. ↑ dpa: Green League prevails with a lawsuit against Elster-Radweg. In: Focus. June 1, 2017, accessed November 2, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Sebastian Kositz: Grace period for the wolf. In: Saxon newspaper. November 3, 2017, accessed November 2, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Tina Soltysiak: conservationists complain against cycle path. In: Saxon newspaper. November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Federal Administrative Court: Lawsuit of the Green League Saxony against the definition of flight routes over Leipzig nature reserves admissible. In: Press release No. 40/2017. June 1, 2017, accessed November 2, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Leag requests extension of deadline for environmental assessment. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Editor: LEAG requests extension of the deadline. Jänschwalde opencast mine could stand still - Niederlausitz news. Accessed September 4, 2019 (German).
  18. ↑ berlin.de: For the time being, the last shift in the Jänschwalde open-cast lignite mine. August 31, 2019, accessed September 4, 2019 .