Petra Kelly, 1987

Petra Karin Kelly (November 29, 1947 – October 1, 1992), German peace activist and Green politician, was born in Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany in 1947, and lived and studied in the United States between 1959 and 1970. She was born Petra Karin Lehmann, but changed her name to Kelly after her mother married her step-father, an American Army officer. She was educated in a Roman Catholic convent in Günzburg and later attended high school in Georgia, after her family relocated to the United States. She retained her West German citizenship throughout her life. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (512x768, 40 KB) (Uploaded using CommonsHelper or PushForCommons) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Petra Kelly ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (512x768, 40 KB) (Uploaded using CommonsHelper or PushForCommons) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Petra Kelly ... November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (literally: Alliance 90/The Greens), the German Green Party, is a political party in Germany whose regional predecessors were founded in the late 1970s as part of the new social movements. ... Günzburg is capital of the district of Günzburg in Swabia, Bavaria. ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...

An admirer of Martin Luther King, Jr., she campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey in the 1968 US elections. She graduated from the School of International Service at American University (Washington, DC), in 1970. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... Robert Francis Bobby Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. ... Hubert Horatio Humphrey II (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was the 38th Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon Johnson. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... For other universities known as American University, see American University (disambiguation). ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...

While working at the European Commission (Brussels, Belgium, 1971-1983), she participated in numerous peace and environment campaigns in Germany and other countries. The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive body of the European Union. ... Nickname: The Capital Of Europe, Comic City City of a 100 Museums Map showing the location of Brussels in Belgium Coordinates: Country Belgium Region Brussels-Capital Region Founded 797 Founded (Region) June 18, 1989 Mayor (Municipality) Freddy Thielemans Area    - City 162 (Region) km²  (62. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Petra Kelly was one of the founders in 1979 of Die Grünen, the German Green Party. Between 1983 and 1990, she was a member of the Bundestag (West German Parliament) for the Greens. This page refers to the year 1979. ... Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (literally: Alliance 90/The Greens), the German Green Party, is a political party in Germany whose regional predecessors were founded in the late 1970s as part of the new social movements. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... The Bundestag (Federal Diet) is the parliament of Germany. ...

Kelly received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 1982 "...for forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights." (See [1]). Jakob von Uexkull, founder of the Right Livelihood Award The Right Livelihood Award, established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, is presented annually in the building of the Swedish Parliament, usually on December 9, to honour those working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1992, she was shot dead in Bonn while sleeping, apparently by her partner, ex-general and Green politician Gert Bastian (born 1923), who then killed himself. Kelly's friends believe her death was totally unexpected and occurred without her consent. She was 44; he was 69. (Details of this event are discussed for instance at [2], [3]). 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Map of Germany showing Bonn Watershed of the Rhine river Bonn is a city in Germany (Population (2002 est): 310 930, the 19th largest city in Germany), in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, located ca. ... Gert Bastian and Petra Kelly on the cover of Alice Schwarzers Eine tödliche Liebe Gert Bastian (March 26, 1923 - October 1992) was a German military officer and politician with the Green Party. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

With the goal of letting Petra Kelly's ideas and political message live on, the Petra Kelly Foundation [4] was founded in 1997 as part of the Heinrich Böll Foundation [5], which also maintains the Petra Kelly Archives [6] [7] and presents, since 1998, the international Petra Kelly Prize [8] for human rights, ecology and non-violent politics. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A monument of Heinrich Böll in Berlin Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one of Germanys foremost post-World War II writers. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Ernst Haeckel coined the term oekologie in 1866. ... Nonviolence (or non-violence) is a set of assumptions about morality, power and conflict that leads its proponents to reject the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political goals. ...

In the words of her friend, the Dalai Lama: "Petra Kelly was a committed and dedicated person with compassionate concern for the oppressed, the weak and the persecuted in our time. Her spirit and legacy of human solidarity and concern continue to inspire and encourage us all." Tenzin Gyatso is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. ...

See also

Eco-feminism Ecofeminism is a biocentric environmental movement with cultural and social concerns. ...

External resources

• The Life and Death of Petra Kelly, by Sara Parkin, Rivers Oram Press/Pandora, 1995 (ISBN 0-04-440940-0)
• Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Nonviolence, by Petra K. Kelly, Parallax Press, Berkeley, California, 1994 (ISBN 0-938077-62-7)
• Nonviolence Speaks to Power, by Petra K. Kelly, online book, almost complete text (also, out of print, published by Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, 1992, ISBN 1-880309-05-X)

External links

• Curriculum Vitae with picture
• Frank Noakes: Petra Kelly, 1947-1992
• Happiness is a Warm Gun. Film on Petra Kelly's death
• Right Livelihood Award website