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Petra Kelly Obituary

Graduation Year Class of 1966
Date of Passing Oct 01, 1992
About Petra Kelly (29 November 1947 presumably 1 October 1992), Petra Kelly was one of the founders of Die Grünen, the German Green Party in 1979. Between 1983 and 1990, she was a member of the Bundestag (German Parliament).
In 1992, according to police, she was shot dead in Bonn while sleeping by her partner, ex-general and Green politician Gert Bastian (born 1923), who then killed himself. She was 44, he was 69.[3][4] Her body was discovered on 19 October, and it was determined she had died on 1 October.[5] Petra Kelly was buried in the Waldfriedhof in Würzburg, near the village of Heidingsfeld in Lower Franconia, Bavaria.
Petra Kelly