Editing Alliance 90/The Greens (section)

===12–13 January 1980: Foundation congress===
The political party '''The Greens''' ({{langx|de|link=no|Die Grünen}}) sprung out of the wave of [[New social movements|New Social Movements]] that were active in the 1970s, including [[Environmental movement|environmentalist]], [[Anti-war movement|anti-war]], and [[Anti-nuclear movement|anti-nuclear]] movements which can trace their origin to the [[protests of 1968|student protests of 1968]]. Officially founded as a German national party on 13 January 1980 in [[Karlsruhe]], the party sought to give these movements political and parliamentary representation, as the pre-existing {{interlanguage link|Volkspartei (Parteityp)#Deutschland|de|lt=peoples parties}} were not organised in a way to address their stated issues.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kaelberer|first=Matthias|date=September 1998|title=Party competition, social movements and postmaterialist values: Exploring the rise of green parties in France and Germany|journal=[[Contemporary Politics]]|language=en|volume=4|issue=3|pages=299–315|doi=10.1080/13569779808449970|issn=1356-9775}}</ref> Its membership included organisers from former attempts to achieve institutional representation such as {{interlanguage link|Grüne Liste Umweltschutz|de|lt=GLU}} and [[Action Group of Independent Germans|AUD]]. Opposition to pollution, use of [[nuclear power]], [[NATO]] military action, and certain aspects of [[Industrialisation|industrialised society]] were principal campaign issues.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} The party also championed [[Sexual revolution|sexual liberation]] and some of their members supported the abolition of [[Age of consent reform|age of consent laws]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=16 July 2021|title=The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-experiment-that-placed-foster-children-with-pedophiles|access-date=27 July 2021|magazine=The New Yorker|publisher=Condé Nast|language=en-US}}</ref>

The formation of a party was purportedly first discussed by movement leaders in 1978. Important figures in the first years were&nbsp;– among others&nbsp;– [[Petra Kelly]], [[Joschka Fischer]], [[Gert Bastian]], {{interlanguage link|Lukas Beckmann|de}}, [[Rudolf Bahro]], [[Joseph Beuys]], [[Antje Vollmer]], {{interlanguage link|Herbert Gruhl|de}}, [[August Haußleiter]], [[Luise Rinser]], {{interlanguage link|Dirk Schneider (politician)|de|lt=Dirk Schneider}}, [[Christian Ströbele]], [[Jutta Ditfurth]], [[Baldur Springmann]] and [[:de:Werner Vogel (Politiker)|Werner Vogel]].

In the foundational [https://bnn.de/lokales/karlsruhe/gruendungsparteitag-der-gruenen-1980-in-karlsruhe-das-war-eine-ziemlich-schwere-geburt congress of 1980], the ideological tenets of the party were consolidated, proclaiming the famous Four Pillars of the Green Party:
* [[Social justice]]
* [[Ecological wisdom]]
* [[Grassroots democracy]]
* [[Nonviolence]]