Peter Willers
Peter Willers (born April 20, 1935 in Bremen ) is a German politician and environmental activist. He was a founding member of the Bremen Green List , a member of the first Bremen parliamentary group on the Bremen Green List and a member of Alliance 90 / The Greens in the Bremen citizenship .
biography
education and profession
Due to the war, Willers grew up in different places of residence in Germany. From 1945 he attended high school on Dechanatstraße in Bremen, which he left with the completion of the secondary school leaving certificate.
In 1950, Willers began an apprenticeship as a foreign trade clerk at the traditional Bremen company Menke & Kulenkampff, national and international trade in raw tobacco. He became a specialist in raw cigar tobacco. In 1968 he received power of attorney. In 1972 he gave up the commercial profession and switched to the newly founded University of Bremen as an employee . Here he was involved in establishing the university / chamber of labor cooperation area . In 1979 he was given leave of absence due to his parliamentary mandate. At the beginning of 1986 he returned to the university as managing director of the Institute for Technology and Education (ITB). In 1987 he was elected to the university's academic senate. From 1988 he taught part-time in the project “Aspects of the Ecological Crisis” in the Politics course. In 1993 he was given leave of absence until 1996 for a full-time job at the North Sea Action Conference . He then worked at the university as a coordinator for environmental research in the Labor and Technology Research Center (artec) until his retirement in 1998 .
politics
In 1970 Willers joined the SPD . In the following years he was deputy chairman of the local association in Horn-Achterdiek , chairman of the city district and chairman of the SPD operating group at the University of Bremen. In 1978 he broke with the SPD, mainly because of environmental policy, and left the party together with 26 fellow activists.
In February 1979, together with other politically dissatisfied people, he founded the Bremen Green List (BGL) and ran for Bremen citizenship . The BGL received 5.14% of the vote and was the first green group to enter a state parliament. The four citizenship seats were held by Olaf Dinné , Axel Adamietz , Peter Willers and Delphine Brox .
In February 1982 he left the BGL because he no longer wanted to carry their electoral illusions. At first he was an individual member of parliament and later he was active in political and parliamentary roles for the federal party The Greens . In the autumn of 1983 he moved into parliament again as the top candidate of the GREEN for the citizenship election and was responsible for the fields of business, work, foreigners, energy, water and science policy. In autumn 1985 he left the Bremen citizenship by rotation. The preparation of the traffic light coalition in Bremen in 1991 was later the last reason for him to leave the Greens.
Initiatives against rearmament and emergency laws
At the end of the 1950s, Willers took part in the first Easter marches against atomic weapons and became a member of the International of War Service Opponents (IdK). In the late 1960s, he also took part in activities against the passing of the emergency laws .
Anti-nuclear movement and energy policy initiatives
From 1972 Willers was active in the anti-nuclear power movement , among other things he worked together with the first German opponents of nuclear power in the “Working Group against Radioactive Contamination” in Bremen. In 1974 he was the spokesman for the “Bürger Action Coast” (BAK), an association of currently more than 100 initiatives in northern Germany. Together with other activists, he participated in legal proceedings against the Unterweser nuclear power plant and numerous demonstrations against nuclear power plants such as Esenshamm, Brokdorf, Grohnde and Krümmel. In 1979 he took part in the Gorleben hearing of the Lower Saxony government and took part in the great Gorleben trek to Hanover. In the autumn of 1979 he moderated the anti-nuclear rally in Bonn with 150,000 participants. In 1978/79 he was the managing director of the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives Environmental Protection (BBU). His protest actions also included participation in the annual electricity payment boycott, in which 10% of the invoice amount was withheld. In May 1980 the legendary borehole 1004 was occupied to explore the salt dome in Gorleben. The "Free Republic" Wendland was founded. After 33 days, Willers, like the other 2,500 residents of the “Republic”, was evacuated by 6,000 police officers without violence. Willers took part in 2006 at the "gas action" against Bremen swb AG , one of the first members of the Bremen Energy House Cooperative eG and supported the resistance Bremer environmental initiatives against the planned coal power plant of swb .
From the BAK to the North Sea Action Conference
In 1980 Willers was a participant and co-organizer of the first German Greenpeace campaign , the blockade of a thin acid tanker on the Weser. In 1974, European environmental associations organized the North Sea Action Conference in Bremen in response to the worrying state of the sea. In 1985 this initiative became a Bremen association, the Aktionkonferenz Nordsee eV (AKN). Willers was a co-founder and from 1993 to 1996 worked full-time at AKN. In autumn 1987, the international Seas at Risk (SAR) Federation was founded in London , Willers became a member of the board and helped organize SAR activities at the international governmental conferences on the North Sea in London , The Hague and Esbjerg .
Partnerships with Eastern Europe
From 1988 glasnost and perestroika also enabled cooperation with Eastern European countries and their environmental groups. Willers took part in 1988 when German environmentalists visited an ecology conference with NGOs, government and official representatives in Moscow and subsequently developed close partnership relations between the AKN and Latvian and Russian environmental groups. Two international Baltic Sea conferences were held together (1989 in Latvia, 1990 in Wismar), seminars, visits were organized with Willers and exhibitions were shown in Sosnovy Bor near St. Petersburg and in Riga. In the early 1990s, Willers designed and implemented two east / west environmental centers in Riga and St. Petersburg, funded by the EU and the state governments of Bremen and Hamburg . These were the initial spark for further "Environmental Centers for Administration and Technology" (ECAT) in Vilnius , Kaliningrad and Tirana .
Further memberships
- In the early 1970s he was a member of the church council of the Evangelical Church Community Horn 2 , where he organized various initiatives for the Third World .
- He founded one of the first parent playground initiatives in Bremen on Vorkampsweg in Horn.
- He was the school parents' representative at the Horner Heerstraße primary school .
- In 2003 he supported the actions to save the Horner Bad, and in 2004 he was elected chairman of the “Our Horner Bad” association.
Publications
- Viewpoints on the Environment, Archplu, 1978
- We are not thought leaders, in Contributions to Scientific Socialism, Issue 23 May 1979, ISSN 0343-2815
- 4: 96 Greens in Bremen , in Frankfurter Hefte, 1981, ISBN 3-920682-05-X (PDF file; 401 kB)
- Articles in waterkant , magazine of the North Sea Action Conference 1986 to 2008 (www.waterkant.info)
literature
- Michael Koppel: Horn-Lehe-Lexikon . Edition Temmen , Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-1029-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Disrupt the deep sleep of the old parties - The ups and downs of the BGL (PDF; 1.0 MB)
- ↑ Report in the Weser-Kurier of July 7, 1981, page 14: "Willers is back on the power grid"
- ↑ report of Peter Willers, performed in 2002 in the play "Brothers Grimm" by the Shakespeare Company in Bremen (PDF; 163 kB)
- ↑ http://kohle-protest.de/bremen Website of the Climate Alliance: Campaign against Block 21 (offline)
- ↑ North Sea Visions (PDF; 765 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willers, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag and environmental activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |