Marianne Fritzen
Marianne Fritzen (born April 7, 1924 in Saarbrücken ; † March 6, 2016 in Kolborn ) was a German opponent of nuclear power .
Life
Her mother was from Alsace, her father from Saarland. She grew up in Alsace , attended grammar school in Hagenau from 1938 and graduated from high school in Paris in 1941 . Because of her dual citizenship, she was denied study in France . After the end of the Second World War, she moved to Berlin , got her first marriage and had two sons. In 1952 she married the sinologist and musicologist Joachim Fritzen in Berlin ; she had three more children. In 1957 the family moved to Wendland and settled near Lüchow . In 1966, she and her three younger children followed her husband to Taipei ( Taiwan ), who had received a two-year visiting professorship there. During this time she worked as a French teacher at Taipei University. Her son Emmanuel has been the director of the German School Taipei since 2007 .
When plans for the construction of a nuclear power plant in Langendorf on the Elbe became known in the 1970s , she became involved for the first time against nuclear energy and in 1973 she took part in the founding of the Lüchow-Dannenberg environmental protection initiative . Until 1982 she led the initiative as chairman. At the end of the 1970s she was one of the founders of the Green List environmental protection in Lower Saxony , a forerunner organization of what would later become the Green Party .
For the Greens, she was involved in the citizens' initiative as a local politician : from 1986 to 1991 she was a member of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district council and the Lüchow municipal council, and from 1991 to 1996 she was also the deputy mayor of Lüchow. Between 1996 and 2001 it belonged to all three local authorities. In 1984 she was a member of the 8th and in 1989 the 9th Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President. In 2000 she broke with the Greens and left the party to protest against the “ nuclear consensus ” that the red-green federal government had concluded with the energy suppliers.
Fritzen became known nationwide through a photo by the photographer Günter Zint , which was later used as an election poster for the Greens , showing her in front of a police chain in 1979, as well as through her commitment in connection with the establishment of the Republic of Free Wendland and its evacuation by the police in 1980. It was valid as the "grandmother of the movement" and called herself the "oldest demonstrator in Germany". Still very old, she took part in every demonstration against the Castor transports to Gorleben .
Honors
- In 2010 she received the Petra Kelly Prize from the Heinrich Böll Foundation .
She refused to accept the Federal Cross of Merit.
literature
- Wolfgang Bittner , Mark vom Hofe (ed.): I get involved. Striking German résumés. Unkel am Rhein 2006, ISBN 978-3-89502-222-7
- Christina Bylow: Generation grandmother. 18 portraits of idiosyncratic women. Photos by Enver Hirsch. Knesebeck-Verlag, Munich 2007, 60 color illustrations, ISBN 978-3-89660-420-0
Web links
- coconutmedia.de: Film about Marianne Fritzen (2008)
- Taz.de , November 13, 2006, Interview: taz.de: “Everyone does what they can” .
- wendland-net.de: biography based on the 90th birthday (2014)
Individual evidence
- ^ Marianne Fritzen died , wendland-net, March 7, 2016
- ^ Image , accessed on March 7, 2016
- ↑ Laudation by Rebecca Harms , accessed on August 20, 2012
- ↑ The grandmother of the movement. ( Memento from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Greenpeace magazine 5/2010, accessed on March 31, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fritzen, Marianne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opponent of nuclear power |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 2016 |
| Place of death | Kolborn (Lüchow) |