Hildegard Breiner

Hildegard Breiner (born March 28, 1936 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian environmental activist .

Life

Hildegard Breiner comes from Vorarlberg , where she and her late husband led the anti-nuclear campaign against the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant in the 1970s. In a referendum in 1978, 85% of voters in Vorarlberg voted against Zwentendorf. In the second half of the 1980s, Hildegard Breiner played an important role in the fight against the Wackersdorf nuclear reprocessing plant in neighboring Bavaria . In 1996 she initiated the “SonnenSchein” campaign, which was intended to raise awareness among Vorarlbergers for photovoltaics. As a result, the Vorarlberg state government made funds available for public relations and plant construction. The campaign resulted in solar power community systems being built in 30 of Vorarlberg's 96 municipalities within just two years. Hildegard Breiner is Vice President of the Austrian Nature Conservation Union , on whose website she is identified as the "grande dame of the commitment to alternative energies in Vorarlberg".

Awards

• 2000 Binding Prize for nature and environmental protection
• 2004 Nuclear-Free Future Award (Lifetime Achievement Category)
• 2008 Toni Russ Prize
• 2018 Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Vorarlberg

See also

• Anti-nuclear movement in Austria
• Anti-nuclear movement in Germany

Web links

• Hildegard Breiner - CV (PDF; 96 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nuclear-Free Future Award: Honorary award for the life's work of the Austrian environmental and nature conservationist Hildegard Breiner . In: Nature & Land . tape 90 , 5/6 (winter issue), 2004, pp. 35 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
2. ↑ Nature Conservation Union Austria. Accessed March 7, 2020 (German). 
3. ↑ 2004 Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Award
4. ↑ "Use without harm" article on Vorarlberg Online from September 3, 2008.
5. ^ Silver Medal of Honor for Hildegard Breiner on ORF November 5, 2018, accessed on November 5, 2018