Petra Kelly

Petra Karin Kelly (November 29, 1947 – October 1, 1992), German peace activist and Green politician, was born in Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany in 1947, and lived and studied in the United States between 1959 and 1970. She was born Petra Karin Lehmann, but changed her name to Kelly after her mother married her step-father, an American Army officer. She was educated in a Roman Catholic convent in Günzburg and later attended high school in Georgia, after her family relocated to the United States. She retained her West German citizenship throughout her life.

External resources

• The Life and Death of Petra Kelly, by Sara Parkin, Rivers Oram Press/Pandora, 1995 (ISBN 0044409400)
• Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Nonviolence, by Petra K. Kelly, Parallax Press, Berkeley, California, 1994 (ISBN 0938077627)
• Nonviolence Speaks to Power, by Petra K. Kelly, online book, almost complete text (also, out of print, published by Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, 1992, ISBN 188030905X)