Gert Bastian and Petra Kelly on the cover of Alice Schwarzer's Eine tödliche Liebe

Gert Bastian (March 26, 1923 - October 1992) was a German military officer and politician with the Green Party. Gert Bastian and Petra Kelly on the cover of a 2001 book by feminist author Alice Schwarzer, Eine tödliche Liebe (Fatal Love) (ISBN 346203040X). ... Gert Bastian and Petra Kelly on the cover of a 2001 book by feminist author Alice Schwarzer, Eine tödliche Liebe (Fatal Love) (ISBN 346203040X). ... Alice Schwarzer (born December 3, 1942 in Wuppertal) is arguably the most prominent contemporary German feminist. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Green is any of a number of similar colors. ...

Bastian volunterred to fight for Germany in World War Two at the age of nineteen. He served on the Eastern Front being wounded by a bullet in the right arm and in the head by a grenande fragment. He was also hit by American machine gun fire in France. After the Ear he started a business which failed and he rejoined the military. From 1956 to 1980 Bastian served in the Bundeswehr or German Federal Armed Forces, retiring as a divisional commander with the rank of Major General. During this period Bastian's politics changed radically. In the 1950s he had been a member of the Christian Social Union in his native Bavaria. Yet Bastian was also an opponent of the planned stationing of Medium-Range missiles with nuclear warheads in Europe and joined the peace movement. In 1981 he was the joint founder of a group called "Generals for Peace" set up by the East German Ministry for Public Security. The Bundeswehr ( ) is the armed forces of Germany and its administration. ... Look up division in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Insignia of a United States Air Force Major General German Generalmajor Insignia Major General is a military rank used in many countries. ... The Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU – ) is a conservative Germany. ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... ...

Bastian was, from March 29, 1983 until February 18, 1987, an electred member of the Greens in the German Federal Parliament. Between February 10, 1984 and March 18, 1986, he was an indepedent member of Parliament having separated from the Green's Parliamentary group several times over his opposition to the rotation principle for leadership then enforced in the Greens. He was then deselected by the Green Party.

In the eighties Bastien was, together with his partner Petra Kelly of one of the most important partners of the GDR opposition in the West. Petra Kelly on the cover of Alice Schwarzers Eine tödliche Liebe Petra Karin Kelly (November 29, 1947 – October 1, 1992), German peace activist and Green politician, was born in Günzburg, Germany in 1947, and lived and studied in the United States between 1959 and 1970. ...

Bastian was found dead in Bonn on October 19, 1992 together with Petra Kelly. According to the police report Bastian shot Kelly dead in her sleep with his old service weapon and afterwards killed himself. No accurate time of death could be determined because of the delay in finding the corpses. He was buried in a north Munich cemetery. It is widely rumored that Bastian shot Kelly to prevent her finding out about his work for the East German Security Services including spying on her. Bonn is a city in Germany (19th largest), in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the north of the Siebengebirge. ... October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Munich (German: München, (pronounced listen) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ...