the need for political changes and human rights in the GDR. The declaration was sent to the press in East- and West Berlin. During the meeting on October 7, a small group of dissidents around Stabe and Platzeck planted the idea for an environmental organization that would exist independently from the Cultural Association. In October 1989, the founding appeal for a “Green League” (Grüne Liga) was drafted. On November 15, 1989, Carola Stabe, Matthias Platzeck and members of the ARGUS group organized the 1. Potsdamer Umweltnacht an event at Potsdam’s Karl Liebknecht Stadium. Here, they made their call for he founding of the Grüne Liga public, in front of 3,000 people. From the middle of October 1989 on, Staube took part in talks towards the creation of a Green Party of the GDR. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, she became a founding member of the GDR’s Green Party on November 24, 1989. Simultaneously, she worked in the speakers’ council of the Grüne Liga to foster the collaboration between both groups. On December 5, 1989, she took part in the occupation of the Stasi headquarters in Potsdam. With a group of fellow dissidents she founded the Rat der Volkskontrolle, which organized the transition to a democratic system in Potsdam. At the Zentraler Runder Tisch (Central Round Table) in Berlin and at the Round Table in Potsdam she represented the Grüne Liga. She partook in the organization of the founding congresses of the Grüne Liga, as well as the Green Party. Her election into the federal board was prevented by the wrongful allegation that she had worked for the Stasi. Henry Schramm, the person who made the allegation, was later exposed as an agent of the Stasi, posing as a dissident in the opposition movement. From December 7 to April 30, 1990, she headed the office of Grüne Liga in Potsdam and later in Berlin. From May 1990 to July 1992 she was the executive director of Grüne Liga e. V. She supported the creation of environmental centers in the GDR’s 14 district cities and realized projects to build environmental counseling. She helped to prepare the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Brasil for the Federal Republic of Germany. In September 1994 she was politically and professionally rehabilitated and started to work in Brandenburg against right-wing extremism, for democratic participation and for a critical