Page "Alliance '90/The Greens" Paragraph 11

In 1982, the conservative factions of the Greens broke away to form the Ecological Democratic Party ( ÖDP ).

Those who remained in the Green party were more strongly pacifist and against restrictions on immigration and reproductive rights, while supporting the legalisation of cannabis use, placing a higher priority on working for LGBT rights, and tending to advocate what they described as " anti-authoritarian " concepts of education and child-rearing.

They also tended to identify more closely with a culture of protest and civil disobedience, frequently clashing with police at demonstrations against nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and the construction of a new runway ( Startbahn West ) at Frankfurt airport.

Those who left the party at the time might have felt similarly about some of these issues, but did not identify with the forms of protest that Green party members took part in.