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Petra Kelly

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The Resume

    (November 29, 1947-October 1, 1992)
    Born in Gunzburg, Germany
    Birth name was Petra Karin Lehmann
    Founding member of the German Green Party (1979)
    Served in the German Parliament (1983-90)
    Wrote 'Fighting For Hope' (1984)
    Murdered by partner/fellow Green activist Gert Bastian, who then committed suicide

Why she might be annoying:

    She had three major affairs with men more than twenty years her senior.
    She turned down an offer of police protection, saying that her commitment to non-violence was greater than her fear of being attacked.
    When the Greens began forming coalitions with other parties, she complained, 'That's why I've become so pessimistic. I've seen us being adaptable.'
    She so alienated her fellow Greens that it was three weeks after her death before any of them realized she was missing.
    Ironically, when asked for a newspaper survey how she wished to die, she replied, 'Not alone.'

Why she might not be annoying:

    She spent her teen years in the United States after her mother married a US Army officer and was inspired by the 60s civil rights movement.
    She received regular death threats from German neo-Nazis.
    She adopted a daughter from Tibet (1973) and organized the first international hearing on human rights abuses in Tibet (1989).
    She received the Swedish parliament's Right Livelihood Prize, known as 'the alternative Nobel Prize.' (1982)
    The Dalai Lama said, 'Petra Kelly was a committed and dedicated person with compassionate concern for the oppressed, the weak and the persecuted in our time.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 13 Votes: 84.62% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 22 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 16 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 68 Votes: 77.94% Annoying