Gert Bastian
Gert Bastian | |
|---|---|
 Bastian in 1987 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| In office 29 March 1983 – 18 February 1987 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 March 1923 German Green Party (1983–1987)
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Nazi Germany (to 1945)German Army Bundeswehr |
| Years of service | 1941–45; 1956–80 |
| Rank | Generalmajor |
| Unit | 12th Tank Division |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Gert Bastian (26 March 1923 – c. 1 October 1992) was a German military officer and politician with the
German Green Party.[1]
Biography
Born in
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.[4] In 1980, he outlined those views in a memorandum to the West German government, asking to retire in the face of what he considered unacceptable military policies; his request was rejected and he resigned.[5] In 1981 he was the joint founder of a group called "Generals for Peace".[6] In the 26 April 1994 edition of The Independent newspaper, Günter Bohnsack, who spent 26 years in the Active Measures Department of the Stasi, claimed that "Generals for Peace was conceived, organised and financed by the Stasi ... This created a real power that was in line with Moscow's ideas ... and we always controlled this through our intelligence services in Moscow and East Berlin."[7]
In the 1980s, Bastian was, together with his partner
German Democratic Republic.[8]
Death and murder of Petra Kelly
On 19 October 1992, the decomposing bodies of Bastian and Kelly were discovered in the bedroom of their house in
East German secret police, but no such evidence has emerged.[9]
Bastian was buried in the Nordfriedhof in Schwabing, Munich.[10]
References
- ^ "Stichtag – WDR". Wdr.de. 26 March 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
- ^ "Chronik-Biographie: Gert Bastian". Chronikderwende.de. 7 October 1989. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
- ^ "Gert Bastian". Chronik der Wende. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- LCCN 2008275356.
- ^ Graham, Bradley (27 January 1980). "W. German General Punished for Outspokenness". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ Banse, Dirk; Behrendt, Michael (28 April 2004). "Der Stasi-Maulwurf von Bonn". Die Welt. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
- ^ "Brigadier Michael Harbottle". julianlewis.net. 28 May 1997. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ "Petra Kelly und die Oppositionellen in der DDR: "Die Unterstützung, die wir brauchten"". Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (in German). 29 September 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ Miller, Marjorie (8 November 1994). "Postscript – Lover's Secret Past Seen as Key to Peace Activist's Violent End – A new biography of Greens founder Petra Kelly rules out the 'double suicide' theory". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
- ^ "Münchner Stadtgeschichte". stadtgeschichte-muenchen.de (in German). 23 August 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
External links
- Interview (alongside Petra Kelly) by the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Media related to Gert Bastian at Wikimedia Commons
