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Hildegard Breiner

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Hildegard Breiner at the WAA memorial stone in Bregenz, 2019

Hildegard Breiner (* March 28, 1936 in Bregenz) is an Austrian activist in the anti-nuclear movement in Austria.

Personal life

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Hildegard Breiner is from Vorarlberg, Austria, where she and her late husband led the anti-nuclear campaign against Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant in the 1970s. In 1978, an unprecedented 85 percent of the voters in Vorarlberg cast their votes against Zwentendorf, tipping the scales of the nationwide referendum. In the second half of the 1980s, Hildegard Breiner played a major role in opposition to the nuclear Wackersdorf reprocessing plant (WAA) to be built at Wackersdorf in neighbouring Bavaria, Germany.

Awards

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  • 2000: Binding Prize for Nature and Environmental Protection[1]
  • 2008: Toni Russ Prize[3]
  • 2018: Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Vorarlberg[4]

See also

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Literature

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  • Hildegard Breiner: Atom-Widerstandsgeschichte(n) (Nuclear resistance historyies), in: Alois Niederstätter, Ulrich Nachbaur: 200 Jahre Gemeindeorganisation. Aufbruch in eine neue Zeit. Vorarlberger Almanach zum Jubiläumsjahr 2005. Bregenz 2006, ISBN 978-3-902622-10-5
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  • Wikimedia Commons logo Media related to Hildegard Breiner at Wikimedia Commons
  • Interviews with Hildegard Breiner (Österreichische Mediathek): Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

References

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