Ursula Schönberger
Political scientist, nuclear policy expert and project manager of the critical specialist portal Atommüllreport.de. After graduating from high school in Munich in 1981, Schönberger studied political science, first at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and later at the Technical University of Braunschweig. She successfully completed her master’s degree in 1991. From 1986, she worked as a draughtswoman in a Braunschweig civil engineering office. From 1994 to 1998, she was a member of the German Bundestag for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.
In 2013, she published the first complete overview of nuclear waste in Germany with the 272-page “Nuclear Waste Inventory”. As a continuation of this work, the online platform atommuellreport.de was set up, with Schönberger as project manager. In this role, she was invited as an expert to the German Bundestag’s Environment Committee in 2015, among other things.
She was part of the peace movement from 1980 to 1985 and was a member of the German Peace Society – United Opponents of War in Munich from 1980 to 1986. In 1985, she joined the anti-nuclear movement and became a member of the Green Party in 1986. She left the party in 2002, mainly because of its approval of military operations. She is a member of Arbeitsgemeinschaft Schacht Konrad e.V., the German Alpine Association and IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt. She is a board member of the association “Archiv Deutsches” Atomerbe, which she co-founded in 2018.
by Ursula Schönberger