Reinhold Stoevesandt

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Reinhold Stoevesandt (born April 10, 1909 , † January 16, 1986 ) was a German architect and local politician. He is considered one of the pioneers of the anti-nuclear power movement in Germany .

Life

In 1960, as a functionary of the Independent Voting Community, by appealing to the Federal Constitutional Court , he prevented local elections in Lower Saxony from being held under conditions that were unfavorable for small parties. Lower Saxony's electoral law had to be changed.

As early as the 1960s, Stoevesandt turned against the Asse-II experimental repository near Wolfenbüttel . From the mid-1970s, as deputy district administrator of the Wolfenbüttel district (FDP), he became increasingly involved in opposing the experimental repository, which received broad support in the district council: the group around Stoevesandt used legal, political and publicity means to oppose the storage that was approved on March 4, 1976 of 100,000 irradiated spherical fuel elements from the Jülich AVR experimental reactor into the Asse and achieved that the storage could not be carried out within the deadline set by June 30, 1978, although the Asse was technically ready to accept. Storage was then abandoned. This storage would have increased the radioactive inventory in the Asse about tenfold and would have made today's efforts to clean up the Asse much more difficult. Stoevesandt succeeded in persuading the state government of Lower Saxony to stop supporting the Asse experimental repository, which presumably contributed to the closure of the Asse at the end of 1978.

The weekly newspaper “Die Zeit” characterized Stoevesandt as a stubborn democrat .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stoevesandt's prank . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1960, pp. 53-55 ( Online - Oct. 26, 1960 ).
  2. ↑ Archives: 21st Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (2009-2012) on the Asse II mine. Lawsuit by the architect Reinhold Stoevesandt, Wolfenbüttel and others against the Society for Radiation and Environmental Research and the Goslar Mining Authority as well as against the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt for the storage of radioactive substances in the former Asse salt mine. Lower Saxony State Archives (location Wolfenbüttel) . 1977. Signature: NLA WO 100 Coll. 2015/78 No. 754. Link .
  3. ↑ Manfred Sack: Wolfenbüttel's old townscape is to be disfigured by a department store: folklore, half-timbered houses and concrete . In: The time . No. 04/1976 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Stoevesandt, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1909
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1986