page_title: Otto Schily
section_title: Founding member of the Green Party
hierarchical_section_title: Otto Schily / Political career / Founding member of the Green Party
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Pressekonferenz der "Grünen" zum Ausgang der Bundestagswahl vom 6.3.1983- im Saal der Bundespressekonferenz.
context_page_description: Otto Georg Schily was Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany from 1998 to 2005, in the cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
context_section_description: In 1980, Schily became founding member of the Green Party. In 1982, he joined other members of the Green Party for a meeting with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who offered to help groups allied with the European anti-nuclear movement to try to close United States military bases in Europe.
  In the 1983 elections, Schily was elected to the German Bundestag and in the first electoral term in which the Greens were represented in parliament, he was one of the spokespersons of the parliamentary group, together with Petra Kelly and Marieluise Beck. In parliament, he became a leading exponent of the party's realist wing, which favored striving for a governing coalition with the Social Democrats following the 1987 elections. In 1986, he was the Greens' sole representative on a Bundestag committee investigating the so-called Flick affair. Due to the party's policy of rotating its representatives, he had to leave parliament in 1986, but he was re-elected in 1987.
caption: Petra Kelly and Otto Schily after the 1983 federal election
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