A list of notable politicians of the

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Tarek Al-Wazir Tarek Mohammed Al-Wazir ( ar, طارق محمد الوزير; born 3 January 1971) is a politician in the German Green Party. Since January 2014 he has been deputy to the Hessian Minister-President, and Hessian Minister of Economics, Energy, T ...

Jan Philipp Albrecht Jan Philipp Albrecht (born 20 December 1982) is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens, part of The Greens-European Free Alliance. From 2018 to 2022, he has been serving as Minister for Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature a ...

Elmar Altvater Elmar Altvater (Kamen, Province of Westphalia, 24 August 1938 – 1 May 2018) was Professor of Political Science at the Otto-Suhr-Institut of the Free University of Berlin, before retiring on 30 September 2004. He continued to work at the institut ...

Carl Amery Carl Amery (9 April 1922 – 24 May 2005), the pen name of Christian Anton Mayer, was a German writer and environmental activist. Born in Munich, he studied at the University of Munich. He was a participant of Gruppe 47. He died in Munich. Amery w ...

* Kerstin Andreae *

Michael Arnold Michael Arnold (born October 1979) is a British novelist who writes historical fiction. Early life and education Michael Arnold was brought up and educated in the market town of Petersfield, in Hampshire, where he still lives with his wife a ...

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* Marieluise Beck * Volker Beck *

Angelika Beer Angelika Beer (born 24 May 1957 in Kiel) is a German politician. 2004 to 2009 she was a Member of the European Parliament for Alliance 90/The Greens, part of the European Greens. She was chair of the delegation for relations with Iran and a membe ...

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Cornelia Behm Cornelia Behm (born 20 September 1951 in Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg) is a German politician and member of Alliance 90/The Greens in the Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal represe ...

Birgitt Bender Birgitt "Biggi" Bender (born 28 December 1956 in Düsseldorf) is a German politician and member of Alliance 90/The Greens in the Bundestag. Bender studied law in Cologne, Geneva and in Freiburg and finished her studies 1984. From 1988 to 2001 ...

* Silvia Bender *

Matthias Berninger Matthias Berninger (born 1971) is a former German politician and member of Alliance 90/The Greens, The Greens from 1993 until 2007. From 2001 to 2005, Berninger served as Parliamentary Secretary of State at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agricult ...

Marianne Birthler Marianne Birthler (born 22 January 1948 in Friedrichshain, Berlin) is a German human rights advocate and politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. From 2000 to 2011, she served as the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records, responsible for ...

Alexander Bonde Alexander Bonde (born 12 January 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as the secretary-general of the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU) since 2018. Early life and education ...

Franziska Brantner Franziska Katharina Brantner (born 24 August 1979) is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013. In addition to her parliamentary mandate, Brantner has been a Parliamentary State ...

* Bernhard Braun * Hiltrud Breyer * Ralf Briese *

Reinhard Bütikofer Reinhard Hans Bütikofer (born 26 January 1953) is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since 2009. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party. He was the co-chair of ...

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Daniel Cohn-Bendit Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (; ; born 4 April 1945) is a French-German politician of Jewish descent. He was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and was also known during that time as ''Dany le Rouge'' (French for "Danny the Red" ...

* Michael Cramer

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Rangin Dadfar Spanta Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta (born December 15, 1954) is a politician in Afghanistan who last served as National Security Advisor of President Hamid Karzai. Prior to that he served as Foreign Minister from April 2006 to January 2010. He was appointe ...

Sepp Daxenberger Sepp Daxenberger (10 April 1962 – 18 August 2010) was a German Green Party politician. Biography Daxenberger was born in Waging am See in Bavaria. He became a blacksmith and later he owned and worked at a farm close to Waging. In 1990 he was ...

Ekin Deligöz Ekin Deligöz (born 21 April 1971) is a Turkish-German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the coalition g ...

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* Katharina Fegebank *

Hans-Josef Fell Hans-Josef Fell (born 7 January 1952) was a member of the German Parliamentary Group Alliance 90/ the Greens from 1998 to 2013. He served as spokesman on energy for the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group, a member of the Environmental ...

Andrea Fischer Andrea Fischer (born January 14, 1960) is a former member of the German Bundestag for the German Green Party and from 1998 until 2001 was Federal Minister for Health. She dropped out of the Bundestag in 2002. Life Education and profession After ...

Joschka Fischer Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer (born 12 April 1948) is a German retired politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. He served as the foreign minister and as the vice-chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. Fis ...

Ossip K. Flechtheim Ossip Kurt Flechtheim (March 5, 1909 – March 4, 1998) was a German jurist, political scientist, author, futurist, and a humanist. He is credited with coining of the term "Futurology". Early life Flechtheim was born in Nikolaev (then Russian Emp ...

Ralf Fücks Ralf Fücks (born 3 August 1951 in Edenkoben, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German politician. He has been a member of the Green Party of Germany since 1982 and has been Mayor of Bremen. He is a member of the Green European Foundation and Heinrich ...

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Kai Gehring Kai Gehring (born 26 December 1977) is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a Member of the German Parliament since 2005. Early life and education After receiving his Abitur in Velbert, Gehring majored in social scienc ...

Sven Giegold Sven (in Danish and Norwegian, also Svend and also in Norwegian most commonly Svein) is a Scandinavian first name which is also used in the Low Countries and German-speaking countries. The name itself is Old Norse for "young man" or "young warri ...

* Christa Goetsch * Katrin Göring-Eckardt * Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf *

Friedel Grützmacher Elfriede "Friedel" Grützmacher (born 3 August 1942 in Leer, Lower Saxony) is a German politician (Alliance 90/The Greens).(4 October 2002German legislators review plans ''Cape Cod Times'', Retrieved November 10, 2010 ("Friedel Grutzmacher, a memb ...

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* Robert Habeck *

Gerald Häfner Gerald Häfner (born 3 November 1956 in Munich) is a German politician who served as an MEP for Alliance '90/The Greens between 2009 and 2014. He had three separate spells as a member of the Bundestag between 1987 and 2002 (1987-1990, 1994-1998 a ...

Enno Hagenah Enno Hagenah (born 31 October 1957 in Engelschoff) is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens. He was elected to the Lower Saxon Landtag The Lower Saxon Landtag () or the Parliament of Lower Saxony is the state diet of the Germ ...

Anja Hajduk Anja Hajduk (born 8 June 1963) is a German psychologist and politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the Scholz cabinet, coalition governme ...

* Rebecca Harms * Martin Häusling *

Gabriele Heinen-Kljajic Gabriele Heinen-Kljajic (born 28 May 1962 in Gemünd) is a German politician for the Alliance '90/The Greens. Political career Heinen-Kljajic was elected to the Lower Saxon Landtag in 2003 state elections, and has been re-elected in 2008 and 201 ...

Monika Heinold Monika Heinold (born 30 December 1958 in Gütersloh) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens and current Schleswig-Holstein Deputy Minister-President and Minister of Finance. Career Heinold grew up in Langenhorn, Hamburg, and began ...

Brigitte Heinrich Brigitte Heinrich (born 29 June 1941, Frankfurt am Main – 29 December 1987) was a German journalist, and an Alliance '90/The Greens politician. Biography In 1966, she became a press spokesperson for the Socialist German Student Union (''"So ...

* Sarah-Lee Heinrich * Ursula Helmhold *

Bettina Herlitzius Bettina Herlitzius (born 8 July 1960 in Bad Salzuflen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician, specifically a Green Party representative in the Bundestag. Political career Herlitzius is the Bundestag representative for Kreis Aachen wh ...

Winfried Hermann Winfried Hermann (born 19 July 1952 in Rottenburg am Neckar) is a German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens. From 1998 to 2011 he was an MP of the German Bundestag. Since 2011 he has been State Minister of Transport in the Cabinets Kretschmann ...

* Kurt Herzog * Anton Hofreiter *

Bärbel Höhn Bärbel Höhn (born 4 May 1952) is a German politician for Alliance '90/The Greens. She was elected to the Bundestag in the 2005 national elections, after serving as State Minister of Agriculture of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1995 to 2005. Earl ...

Milan Horáček Milan Horáček (born 30 October 1946 in Velké Losiny, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-born German politician, a founding member of the German Green Party, a former member of the Bundestag (1983–1985) and a former Member of the European Parliament ...

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Michael Jacobi Michael Jacobi (1618—1663) was a North German composer and kantor. He studied law at Strasbourg (1641) and travelled widely before taking employment as kantor first at Kiel (1648) then at Lüneburg (1651). Under his supervision the first passio ...

* Ulla Jelpke (now

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Gisela Kallenbach Gisela Kallenbach (born 28 March 1944, in Soldin, New March, now Myślibórz, Poland) is a German politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens, from 2004 to 2009. Since 2009, she ...

Ska Keller Franziska Maria "Ska" Keller (; born 22 November 1981) is a German politician and member of the European Parliament for the Germany constituency. She is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party. She is co-presiden ...

Petra Kelly Petra Karin Kelly (29 November 1947 – 1 October 1992) was a German Green politician and ecofeminist activist. She was a founding member of the German Green Party, the first Green party to rise to prominence both nationally in Germany and wor ...

Hans-Jürgen Klein Hans-Jürgen Klein (born 21 May 1952 in Recke) is a German politician for the Alliance '90/The Greens. He was elected to the Lower Saxon Landtag in 1998, and has been re-elected on two occasions. References 1952 births Living people ...

Sibyll-Anka Klotz Sibyll-Anka Klotz (born 1961, in Berlin) is a German politician and member of Alliance '90/The Greens in the parliament of Berlin. Klotz studied philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin in Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and larg ...

Wilhelm Knabe Wilhelm Knabe (8 October 1923 – 30 January 2021) was a German ecologist, pacifist, civil servant and politician, remembered as a founding member of the Green Party in Germany, and a pioneer of conservation of the environment who shaped the par ...

Jan Korte Jan Korte (born 4 November 1956 in Veendam, Groningen) is a Dutch former football player, who played for BV Veendam and Go Ahead Eagles, and later on became a football manager Management (or managing) is the administration of an organizat ...

* Ina Korter * Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler * Winfried Kretschmann *

Fritz Kuhn Fritz Kuhn (born 29 June 1955) is a German politician who served as Mayor of Stuttgart from 2012 until 2021. He was co-chairman of Alliance '90/The Greens, the German Green party, in 2002 and its parliamentary group from 2002 to 2013. Early li ...

Renate Künast Renate Elly Künast (born 15 December 1955) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens party. She was the Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture from 2001 to 2005 and subsequently served as chairwoman of her party's parliame ...

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Eveline Lemke Eveline Lemke (June 1964) is former German politician and member of the Alliance 90/The Greens. From 18 May 2011 until 18 May 2016, she was vice minister president of Rhineland-Palatinate and Minister for Economics, Climate Protection, Energy ...

Vera Lengsfeld Vera Lengsfeld (born 4 May 1952) is a German politician. She was a prominent civil rights activist in East Germany and after the German reunification she first represented the Alliance 90/The Greens and then the German Christian Democratic Uni ...

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Helge Limburg Helge Limburg (born 25 October 1982 in Hannover) is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 elections. Early life and education After his final secondary-school examinations in 20 ...

* Karoline Linnert *

Corny Littmann Cornelius "Corny" Littmann (born 21 November 1952) is a German entrepreneur, entertainer, theater owner ( Schmidt Theater). He served as President (2002–2010) of the football club FC St. Pauli. Biography Littmann toured throughout West Germa ...

Sylvia Löhrmann Sylvia Löhrmann (born 1 March 1957, Essen, Germany) is a German politician of the Green Party. Education and early career Löhrmann studied German and English from 1975-1981 at the Ruhr University Bochum and later worked as a teacher. Political ...

Anna Lührmann Anna Lührmann (born 14 June 1983 in Lich, Hesse) is a German political science professor and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2021 elections. In addition to her work in parl ...

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* Christian Meyer ( Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) * Jerzy Montag *

Kerstin Müller Kerstin Müller (born 7 June 1969 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ' ...

Özcan Mutlu Özcan Mutlu (born January 10, 1968) in Kelkit, Gümüşhane Province, Turkey, is a Turkish-German politician from the Green Party. Early years Mutlu has lived in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg since 1973. He received his naturalization in 19 ...

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Winfried Nachtwei Winfried Nachtwei (born 15 April 1946 in Wulfen) is a German politician and former member of Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag. He is an expert on the Afghanistan conflict and works as a peace and conflict consultant since leaving the Bu ...

* Wolfgang Nešković *

Mona Neubaur Mona Neubaur (born 1 July 1977) is a German politician from Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as Deputy Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia and also as State Minister for Economics, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy in ...

Ehrhart Neubert Ehrhart Neubert (born 2 August 1940) is a retired German Evangelical minister and theologian. During its final decade he emerged as an opponent of the East German one-party dictatorship, becoming a member of the League of Evangelical Churches i ...

* Omid Nouripour

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Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin (25 February 1941 in Jerusalem) is a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party and later in life of Alliance '90/The Greens. She is the sister of Israeli historian Tom Segev. Life Born and raised i ...

Cem Özdemir Cem Özdemir (, ; born 21 December 1965) is a German politician who currently serves as Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture since 2021. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens party. Between 2008 and 2018, Özdemir co-chaired the Gr ...

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Boris Palmer Boris Erasmus Palmer (born 28 May 1972) is a German politician and former member of the Green Party. He has been mayor of Tübingen since January 2007. From March 2001 to May 2007, he was a member of the Baden-Württemberg Landtag, the State pa ...

Lisa Paus Elisabeth "Lisa" Paus (born 19 September 1968) is a German politician who has served as the Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth since 25 April 2022. A member of Alliance 90/The Greens and an economist by trainin ...

* Simone Peter *

Filiz Polat Filiz Polat (born 11 July 1978 in Bramsche, Lower Saxony) is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens. Early years Polat was born on 11 July 1978 in Bramsche, a town in Osnabrück District, Germany, to a Turkish physician father and ...

Ramona Pop Ramona Pop (born 31 October 1977) is a Romanian-born German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens party who has been serving as chairwoman of the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV) since 2022. She previously served as a deputy ...

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* Gerold Rahmann *

Claudia Roth Claudia Benedikta Roth (born 15 May 1955) is a German politician (Alliance 90/The Greens). She was one of the two party chairs from 2004 to 2013 and previously served as one of the President of the Bundestag, vice presidents of the ''Bundestag'' ...

* Heide Rühle *

Herbert Rusche Herbert Ludwig Rusche (born 6 May 1952 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German politician and LGBT activist. Rusche was born in Bad Neuenahr. In his childhood, he lived in three cities. After his schooling, he lived in Kai ...

* Barbara Rütting

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Rüdiger Sagel Rüdiger Sagel (born 9 August 1955 in Lünen) is a German politician currently with the Left Party and previously with the Alliance '90/The Greens. From 1998 until 2012 he was a member of the state parliament (''Landtag'') for North Rhine-Westpha ...

Dieter Salomon Dieter Salomon (born 9 August 1960 in Melbourne, Australia) is a German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens who served as mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau for two terms from 2002 until 2018. Biography Salomon grew up in the German Allgäu. He ...

Ulle Schauws Ursula "Ulle" Schauws (born 30 April 1966) is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens party. Education and early career Schauws studied history, politics and film studies. She worked as contributing editor and dramaturge for German fi ...

* Gerhard Schick * Frithjof Schmidt *

Michaele Schreyer Michaele Schreyer (born 9 August 1951 in Cologne) was a European Commissioner from September 1999 to November 2004, holding the budget portfolio. A citizen of Germany, she is a member of the German Green Party. Education Schreyer wrote her do ...

* Elisabeth Schroedter *

Werner Schulz Werner Gustav Schulz (22 January 1950 – 9 November 2022) was a German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens. Trained in food technology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, he worked as a research assistant. He was an activist for peace eco ...

* Frank Schwalba-Hoth * Sarah Sorge *

Malte Spitz Malte Spitz (born 14 April 1984) is a German people, German Alliance '90/The Greens, Green Party politician and Executive Committee member. He works on media and privacy issues. A candidate for the Bundestag in the September 2013 national electi ...

Grietje Staffelt Grietje Staffelt (née Bettin, born 16 July 1975 in Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German politician and a former member of Alliance 90/The Greens in the Federal Diet of Germany. Staffelt has been an MP since 3 April 2000, when she re ...

Miriam Staudte Miriam Staudte (born 4 November 1975 in Kiel) is a German politician for the Alliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as State Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the cabinet of Minister-President Stephan Weil of Lower ...

* Silke Stokar von Neuforn *

Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens, formerly known as Eckhard Stratmann, (born 3 April 1948 in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former politician and Green Party member of the German Bundestag. Before and after serving in the Bundestag, he taught ...

Hans-Christian Ströbele Hans-Christian Ströbele (; 7 June 1939 – 29 August 2022) was a German politician and lawyer. He was a member of Alliance 90/The Greens, the German green party. Education and early career Ströbele was born on 7 June 1939 in Halle, Saale, ...

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* Wilfried Telkämper * Jürgen Trittin *

Helga Trüpel Helga Trüpel (born 21 July 1958) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 until 2019. She is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party. Educational background Helga T ...

Elke Twesten Elke Twesten (born July 7, 1963 in Scheeßel) is a German politician for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, CDU in Lower Saxony who switched parties from the Alliance 90/The Greens in 2017. Career Twesten previously worked in the Hambu ...

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Wolfgang Ullmann Wolfgang Ullmann (18 August 1929 – 30 July 2004) was a German journalist, theologian, politician. Life Wolfgang Ullmann was born in Bad Gottleuba near Dresden. From 1948 to 1954 he studied Protestant theology and also philosophy, first in B ...

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* Roland Vogt *

Antje Vollmer Antje Vollmer (born 31 May 1943) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. From 1994 to 2005, she was one of the vice presidents of the German parliament, the ''Bundestag''. Education and early career Vollmer was born in Lübbeck ...

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* Stefan Wenzel *

Heike Wilms-Kegel Heike Wilms-Kegel (born October 19, 1952 in Bremen) served in the Bundestag for the German Green Party from 1987 to 1990. She represented Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland- ...

Harald Wolf Harald Wolf (7 November 1955) is a German former cyclist. He competed in the individual pursuit The individual pursuit is a track cycling event where two cyclists begin the race from a stationary position on opposite sides of the track. It i ...

Thomas Wüppesahl Thomas Wüppesahl (born 9 July 1955 in Hamburg) is a German politician. He is a former member of the Bundestag. He was a member of Alliance '90/The Greens until 1987. His political skills are civil and political rights, domestic policy and the a ...

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