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insurance company and was deeply convinced that planning with-
out the necessary money for licenses was simply impossible. She
provided a substantial amount for the licenses and referred me to
Rosemarie Rübsamen, who was a successful wind farm planner and
an anti-nuclear pioneer from Hamburg. That was the third woman
to join our team.

Figure 22.2 Rosemarie Rübsamen, Brigitte Schmidt and Thea Hefti—the

Windwomen.

The question about the organisational structure then arose.
A topic by one of our team members, Rosemarie Rübsamen's
Energiegemeinschaften (Energy Communities) helped very much

in exploring the advantages and disadvantages of company
structures. We decided to found a limited company—the URS mbH,
a company for the usage of renewable energy. 'U' stood for Urban,
back then the managing director of the first East German photo-
voltaic factory in Wismar. 'R' stood for Rübsamen and 'S' for
Schmidt. The location of the headquarters of the company was
clear; it had to be in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in our village.
There were too many examples of companies in East Germany
being the “extended workbenches” of large production companies
from the old federal states.