GHDI logo

Images - The Green Movement
1-10 of 12 images    return to chapter list < previous   |   next >
1.   Water Pollution in North Rhine-Westphalia (1958)
The layer of foam visible in this 1958 photograph of the Niers River in the heavily industrialized state of North Rhine-Westphalia makes clear that the negative effects of West Germany's postwar....
Water Pollution in North Rhine-Westphalia (1958)
2.   Police Protecting the Construction Site of a Nuclear Power Plant (1977)
Around the middle of the 1970s, a broad civic movement formed in West Germany to protest the peaceful use of nuclear energy on the basis of safety concerns. Violent clashes occurred between demonstrators....
Police Protecting the Construction Site of a Nuclear Power Plant (1977)
3.   Citizens' Initiative for Environmental Protection (1980)
During the course of the 1970s, local protests against highway construction, air and water pollution, and the destruction of city neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal gave rise to numerous....
Citizens' Initiative for Environmental Protection (1980)
4.   Federal Border Guards and Police Tear Down the "Free Republic of Wendland" (June 4, 1980)
On May 3, 1980, anti-nuclear activists occupied site 1004 (which was located in the vicinity of Gorleben in Lower Saxony) to stop the federal government from running drilling trials for a nuclear....
Federal Border Guards and Police Tear Down the
5.   House Occupied by Squatters (1980)
The destruction of affordable housing in the name of aggressive urban renewal and the construction of anonymous concrete buildings in Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood led to the development of a strong....
House Occupied by Squatters (1980)
6.   Environmental Destruction and Air Pollution in Saxony (1982)
The steady increase in air pollution in the GDR and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was attributable in no small measure to emissions from power plants fired by brown....
Environmental Destruction and Air Pollution in Saxony (1982)
7.   Press Conference by Otto Schily, Petra Kelly, and Reiner Trampert (March 7, 1983)
In the Bundestag elections of March 6, 1983, the Greens secured 5.6% of the vote, a result....
Press Conference by Otto Schily, Petra Kelly, and Reiner Trampert (March 7, 1983)
8.   Air Pollution in Brunsbüttel (1985)
Although more stringent environmental regulations had been passed and public awareness of the dangers of air pollution had increased since the 1970s as a result the environmental movement, damage....
Air Pollution in Brunsbüttel (1985)
9.   Environmental Destruction and Air Pollution in the Ruhr Valley (1985)
Water and air pollution in West Germany was only gradually reduced through prohibitions on waste discharge and the legally-mandated installation of modern filtering equipment. This photograph shows....
Environmental Destruction and Air Pollution in the Ruhr Valley (1985)
10.   Joschka Fischer in the Hessian State Parliament (1985)
Joschka (born Joseph) Fischer was active in the Frankfurt student movement from 1968 onward. In the early 1970s, he participated in local street fights in which members of the leftist “Sponti” movement....
Joschka Fischer in the Hessian State Parliament (1985)
1-10 of 12 images    < previous   |   next >