Sebastian Pflugbeil

Sebastian Pflugbeil (born September 14, 1947 in Bergen on Rügen ) is a German physicist and civil rights activist . In 1989 he co-founded the New Forum and in 1990 was a minister without portfolio in the last GDR government led by the SED ( Modrow government ).

Life

The son of the church musician Hans Pflugbeil and the harpsichordist Annelise Pflugbeil (founder of the Greifswalder Bachwoche ) studied physics at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald from 1966 to 1971 and then worked at the Central Institute for Cardiovascular Research of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin-Buch . His dissertation on basic biomedical research was published in 1983.

Pflugbeil was a co-founder of the peace seminar of the evangelical Immanuel congregation in Berlin. After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, he worked on a study on the problems of nuclear energy policy in the GDR on behalf of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR . In 1988/1989, Pflugbeil was an advisor to the Ecumenical Assembly for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation in the GDR . In 1989 he, like his wife Christine, was a co-founder of the New Forum (NF) and NF speaker at the Berlin and Central Round Table . From February 1990 he was minister without portfolio of the GDR. During this time he collected documents about the nuclear power plants of the GDR, which he summarized in a detailed dossier for the People's Chamber .

From 1990 to 1994 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives as a representative of the New Forum / Citizens Movement group . Since 1993 he has been chairman of the Chernobyl Children Association . He is one of the few who has inspected the inside of the sarcophagus - the concrete protective shell around the exploded reactor. He is a full member of the International Ecological Academy . ^Receipt?

Pflugbeil has been President of the Society for Radiation Protection since 1999 . V. caused a stir with his hypothesis that the leukemia cluster Elbmarsch was due to an accident during illegal nuclear weapons experiments in September 1986 at the GKSS research center in Geesthacht.

At the end of 2001 he initiated the appeal We are fed up with it, which was signed by former representatives of the GDR opposition .

Since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, Pflugbeil has been traveling regularly to Japan to exchange information. In 2012 he received an honorary prize from the Nuclear-Free Future Award for life's work.

Publications

• with Christa Gurk and Fritz Wolter: Process computer-assisted experimental system for use in animal-experimental hypertension research, a contribution to the automation of experiments in basic biomedical research. Dissertation. Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin 1983
• (as editor): Upright in the headwind. Children of 89 remember. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-374-02802-3

Honors

• Order of Merit of the State of Berlin (2019)

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 289.
• Helmut Müller-Enbergs , Jan Wielgohs:  Pflugbeil, Sebastian . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Pflugbeil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: The physicist Sebastian Pflugbeil reports from Fukushima  - news

• Sebastian Pflugbeil in the youth opposition portal in the GDR
• Elementary questions: "Chernobyl" - An interview with Dr. Sebastian Pflugbeil (republication of the conversation from June 8, 2010; Sebastian Pflugbeil reports as one of the few people who inspected the inside of the sarcophagus around the exploded reactor block at Chernobyl.)
• The man for nuclear issues , portrait of Nicholas Brautlecht in the world , April 12, 2011
• Sebastian Pflugbeil: Chernobyl in permanence. One Year Fukushima , Papers for German and International Politics , No. 3, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to DNB data . Die Welt (like taz), on the other hand, writes: "The regime critic is refused his doctorate. Only after the fall of the Berlin Wall is he awarded the doctorate."
2. ↑ Pflugbeil short curriculum vitae at the coordinating contemporary witness office of the federal government 
3. ^ German National Foundation: The National Prize 2000 , via Robert Havemann Society
4. ↑ MDR, Time Travel: Participants at the central round table , accessed on January 16, 2020.
5. ↑ Elementary questions: "Chernobyl" - An interview with Dr. Sebastian Pflugbeil , April 27, 2016, accessed on September 11, 2019.
6. ↑ In the 2011 DLF interview he said: "Friends of mine were in there in the sarcophagus".
7. ↑ Sabine Kemper and Bente Milton: ZDF Documentation Der Millionensarg (2002) on YouTube
8. ^ Society for Radiation Protection eV
9. ↑ Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake, Sebastian Pflugbeil: The Elbmarsch leukemia cluster: contamination near Geesthacht by nuclear fuel and estimation of the radiation dose for the population. (PDF; 6.1 MB) Society for Radiation Protection, March 31, 2007, accessed on March 26, 2019 . 
10. ^ Gabriele Goettle: The money machine. Visit to the physicist Sebastian Pflugbeil , taz, November 28, 2011. p. 16
11. ↑ Call "We're fed up ..." (PDF; 20 kB)
12. ↑ Fukushima reactor disaster and the consequences ( memento of October 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), BR, October 22, 2015
13. ↑ Nicolas Semak: Podcast NSP01 (Fukushima & Atomenergie): Interview with Sebastian Pflugbeil. March 30, 2011, archived from the original on January 13, 2012 .