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Christian Meyer (politician)
Christian Meyer (born 23 July 1975) is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as State Minister for Environment, Energy and Climate Protection in the cabinet of Minister-President of Lower Saxony Stephan Weil since 2022. Political career Meyer was born in Holzminden, Lower Saxony. In the 2008 and 2013 state elections, he was elected to the Landtag of Lower Saxony. From 2013 to 2017, Meyer served as State Minister of Food, Agriculture, Consumer Protection and State Development in the state government under Minister-President Stephan Weil. As one of the state’s representatives at the Bundesrat, he serves on the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. Other activities * German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2023) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of Lower Saxony
The Politics of Lower Saxony takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Lower Saxony. Since 1948 politics in the state has been dominated by the rightist Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the leftist Social Democratic Party. Lower Saxony was one of the origins of the German environmentalist movement in reaction to the state government's support for underground nuclear waste disposal. This led to the formation of the German Green Party in 1980. Prime Minister The Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (german: Ministerpräsident) is the head of government of Lower Saxony. The current Prime Minister is Stephan Weil Stephan Weil (born 15 December 1958) is a German politician and the leader of the Social Democratic Party in Lower Saxony. On 20 January 2013, the SPD and the Green party won the 2013 Lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |