Co-founder of the Green Party in Germany (1947–1992)
Petra Kelly
Kelly in 1983
Leader of The Greens in the Bundestag
In office 29 March 1983 – 3 April 1984
Serving with Otto Schily and Marieluise Beck
Chief Whip
Joschka Fischer
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Waltraud Schoppe
Member of the Bundestag for Bavaria
In office 6 March 1983 – 2 December 1990
Constituency
The Greens List
Personal details
Born
Petra Karin Lehmann
29 November 1947 Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany
Died
1 October 1992(1992-10-01) (aged 44) Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Cause of death
Murder by gunshot
Political party
The Greens
Domestic partner
Gert Bastian
Alma mater
American University, University of Amsterdam
Occupation
Activist, politician
Awards
Right Livelihood Award
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Kelly and Otto Schily after the 1983 West German federal electionJoseph Beuys with Petra Kelly. Photographed by Rainer Rappmann [de]
Petra Karin Kelly (29 November 1947 – c. 1 October 1992) was a German Green politician and ecofeminist activist. She was a founding member of the German Green Party, the first Green party to rise to prominence both nationally in Germany and worldwide. In 1982, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights."
human rights." Petra Karin Lehmann was born in Günzburg, Bavaria in 1947. She changed her name to Kelly after her mother married John E. Kelly, a US Army...
and East Berlin." In the 1980s, Bastian was, together with his partner PetraKelly, one of the most important West German supporters of the opposition in...
"red/wrong" to "green/right," or at least to "yellow/acceptable.": 292 PetraKelly wrote in her first book, Fighting for Hope (1984): A third of the 2 Billion...
PetraKelly Garden, dedicated to the German ecologist PetraKelly, founder of the Green Party, in which there are two small monuments: A PetraKelly (1993)...
word "green" into the world's political idioms. The German politician PetraKelly came to Australia around the middle of the 1970s and witnessed green...
most media attention. This was partly due to their charismatic leader PetraKelly, a German who was of interest to the American media because she had an...
Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Nonviolence by PetraKelly Tomorrow's Biodiversity by Vandana Shiva Woman and Nature: The Roaring...
original on 15 May 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2011. Bevan, RA (2001), PetraKelly: The Other Green, New Political Science, vol. 23, no. 2, November, pp...
critic (b. 1897) 1990 – Curtis LeMay, American general (b. 1906) 1992 – PetraKelly, German activist and politician (b. 1947) 1994 – Paul Lorenzen, German...
corrupting and supported the notion of an "anti-party party" formed by PetraKelly and other leaders of the Greens in Germany vs. those who saw electoral...
"Green" was coined by one of the founders of the German Green Party, PetraKelly, after she visited Australia and saw the actions of the Builders Labourers...
countries Green and radical parties sprang up in the following years. PetraKelly, a German ecofeminist activist, is often cited as one of the first thinkers...
continued to write an increasing number of books, among them one about PetraKelly and Gert Bastian, called Eine tödliche Liebe (Deadly Love), and biographies...
SPD Hans-Jochen Vogel 226 +40 FDP Otto Graf Lambsdorff 57 +11 Greens PetraKelly 51 +9 PDS Gregor Gysi 23 New DSU Hansjoachim Walther 8 New United Left...
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