1989: active in the environmental protection working group under the umbrella of the church, 3 children, graduate engineer, 1990-1991 non-party city councillor for the Greens/UFV group in the Leipzig City Council, 1991-2000 personal advisor in the Department of Environmental Protection and Sport (since 1994 Department of Environment, Order, Housing), 2000-2003 UN employee (UN mission in Kosovo), 2004-2009 Member of the European Parliament, 2009-2014 Member of the Saxon State Parliament
Gisela Kallenbach
Active action for our environment had priority, such as the action of our working group in the Leipzig area: the Pleiße memorial march [1988]. It was about the state of the rivers, using the Pleiße as an example. I also actively supported the campaigns that were organised in Dresden – together with the Rötha Christian environmental seminar “Eine Mark für Espenhain” [1987]. I collected a lot of signatures and the “One Mark contribution”. That was the joke: collecting signatures was forbidden in the GDR, so there was a risk of punishment. So it became a fundraising campaign – and everyone gave one mark with their signature for the reconstruction of the lignite smouldering plant in Espenhain. The Espenhain lignite plant had a huge impact on the air quality in the surrounding area.
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