Green list environmental protection

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The Green List Environmental Protection (GLU) was, alongside the Green List Schleswig-Holstein (GLSH), the Green Action Future (GAZ) and the Action Group of Independent Germans (AUD), one of the four founding organizations from which the Greens party emerged in 1980 . The main initiators of the GLU were Carl Beddermann , who had previously founded a Lower Saxony environmental protection party (USP), and Georg Otto , who was later elected as the state chairman in Lower Saxony. At times there was competition between GLU and USP.

history

On October 23, 1977, the GLU, which was founded on September 1, took part in local elections in Lower Saxony for the first time and received a seat in the district council of the Hildesheim district with 1.2% , while the "Atomic Power Voters - No Thanks" (WGA) with 2.3 % % was also able to win a mandate in the district council of the Hameln-Pyrmont district . As a result, the GLU was founded on November 16, 1977 at the state level. At the beginning it had about 400 members in twelve district associations. From the beginning, the GLU was designed as a forerunner of a state association of a nationwide party.

In the state elections in Lower Saxony in 1978 , she ran with Martin Mombaur as the top candidate from Gorleben , which was symbolic of the anti-nuclear movement. It achieved 3.86%, making it the fourth strongest party right away. Soon after the election, Beddermann left the party.

In the state elections in Hamburg on the same day , the “ Colorful List - Defend yourself ” and the Hamburg GLU competed with the protagonists of the KB . The top candidates on the colorful list were Holger Strohm , formerly a member of the SPD, and Rainer Trampert , a unionized KB activist and later federal executive spokesman for the party Die Grünen. The colorful list was based on a decision by the delegates 'conference of the Hamburg anti-nuclear power plant initiatives on October 21, 1977 and also included other extra-parliamentary groups, such as women's initiatives, critical trade unionists and tenants' initiatives. The GLU achieved 1.1 percent and the Bunte Liste 3.5 percent. After the election she was represented in the Eimsbüttel district assembly with Christina Kukielka and Ilona Kiene .

In other federal states, further local and regional initiatives soon existed, which later largely became part of the Green Party . In January 1981, the GLU Lower Saxony dissolved after a strike vote in the green federal party. The best-known former GLU politician in the federal party was Helmut Lippelt . The GLU Hamburg, on the other hand, became part of the Ecological Democratic Party .

literature

  • Makoto Nishida: Currents in the Greens (1980–2003). An analysis of informally organized groups within the Greens , LIT, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-9174-7
  • Joachim Raschke: The Greens. How they became what they are . Cologne: Bund, 1993, pp. 295–327. ISBN 3-7663-2474-8
  • GRÜBL , November 2004 edition (special edition for the 25th birthday of the Green District Association of Hanover City)
  • Klaus Mlynek : Alliance 90 / The Greens. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 93.

Single receipts

  1. https://www.gruene-niedersachsen.de/partei/geschichte
  2. Makoto Nishida: Strömungen in den Grünen (1980-2003) , Münster 2005, p. 34.
  3. Martin Mombaur: In Parliament and on the street - The double strategy of the green Lower Saxony. In: Jörg R. Mettke (Ed.): The Greens. Government partner of tomorrow? SPIEGEL book, Rowohlt 1982.
  4. ^ Statutes of the ÖDP (PDF; 133 kB)