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Petra Kelly
(1947-1992)

German Co-Founder, German Green Party
1982 Right Livelihood Award Winner

birthdate: November 29
birthplace:
Günzburg, Germany

Petra Karin Kelly was a German politician and author who helped to found the German Green Party, which was the first Green party to become successful. As a child, her mother remarried an American Army officer and she moved to the United States where she lived until her early 20s. Petra Kelly became politically active while studying at American University and campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy in the 1968 US elections. After returning to Europe she worked with the European Commission in Brussels from 1971-1983 and participated in many peace and environmental campaigns throughout Europe. She helped to found the Green Party in 1979 as "a non-violent ecological and basic-democratic anti-war coalition of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary grassroots oriented forces." As one of the national chairs from 1980 to 1982 she helped the party rise to prominence so that by 1983 she and 27 others from the Green Party had been elected to the West German Parliament. In 1982 Petra Kelly received the Right Livelihood Award "...for forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights." In 1992, Petra Kelly was killed under mysterious circumstances. In 1997 the Petra Kelly Foundation was founded to continue promoting her political message, and each year it presents the Petra Kelly Prize for Human Rights, Ecology and Nonviolence.


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