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(upper house, representing the federal states) and the Bundestag
(lower house), acted in a similar manner: He did his utmost to
stop the German constitution of 23 May 1949 from being trans-
formed into one for the whole of reunified Germany. Not at all in
keeping with article 146 which states that “this basic law shall
cease to apply on the day on which a constitution freely adopted
by the German people takes efect”.
Many people were probably asking themselves: Where
on earth would we be then? Should it be revealed at this early
stage that Theodor Maunz, who taught both Rupert Scholz and
Roman Herzog, had written commentaries for Gerhard Frey's
Deutsche Nationalzeitung
(formerly
German National and Military
Newspaper
) right up until his death in 1993 and that the German
Reich still lives on in legal terms? Should all wonderful takeover
and bankrupting opportunities in the acceding territory (i.e., the
five new federal states) be lost on account of a new and transparent
constitution? Should a growth in power and revenues be
sacrificed at the altar of such fantastical notions as “sustainability”
and “democracy”?
21.1
The German Renewable Energy
Association (Bundesverband Erneuerbare
Energie) Is Founded to Safeguard the Feed-
In Law
The Renewable Energy Association was founded in 1991 as an
umbrella organisation for small and medium-sized operating
companies, in order to safeguard and strengthen the Feed-In Law.
The management and top lawyers in the energy supply industry
were unable to extend their influence over the rapidly developing
renewable energy sector protected by this law, as long as they
had not successfully warded of the legal proceedings against
the “GDR power supply agreements” and taken possession of
the energy production and supply network of the former GDR.
At the beginning of September 1994, the last obstacles had been
overcome and the Feed-In Law came under immediate attack.
Only after some considerable efort and by standing shoulder-to-
shoulder and closing the ranks right down through society was
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