Biography
Holger was a veteran German peace activist from Hamburg (imprisoned five times for a total of 17 months during the 1985–1998 Pershing II missile protest era, later legally rehabilitated). On April 30, 2019 entered Büchel Air Base with 16 others, breaching a double NATO fence in protest of U.S. nuclear weapons. Refused to pay the resulting fine and served a 30-day sentence at JVA Billwerder in Hamburg starting August 17, 2022.
The August 18, 2022 report identifies January 18 of that year as Holger Isabelle Jänicke’s sixtieth birthday, establishing a birth date of January 18, 1962. Contemporary Büchel17 press release reproduced by The Nuclear Resister.
The August 18, 2022 Büchel17 account says the Koblenz court imposed thirty daily fine units of €17 on January 18 for the 2019 action. Jänicke deliberately declined to pay and entered prison under the resulting substitute sentence. The report also describes legal-aid work since 1986 and a legal-aid office in Hamburg since 2010. Contemporary account reproduced by The Nuclear Resister.
