Robert Habeck
Robert Habeck | |
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Leader of the Alliance '90/The Greens | |
Assumed office 27 January 2018 Serving with Annalena Baerbock | |
Deputy |
Gesine Agena Jamila Schäfer |
Preceded by | Cem Özdemir |
Minister for the Energy Transition, Environment, Agriculture and Digitization of Schleswig-Holstein | |
In office 12 June 2012 – 1 September 2018 | |
Prime Minister |
Torsten Albig Daniel Günther |
Preceded by | Juliane Rumpf |
Succeeded by | Jan Philipp Albrecht |
Deputy Minister President of Schleswig Holstein | |
In office 12 June 2012 – 6 February 2018 | |
Prime Minister |
Torsten Albig Daniel Günther |
Preceded by | Heiner Garg |
Succeeded by | Monika Heinold |
Leader of the Alliance '90/Greens in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein | |
In office 27 September 2009 – 12 June 2012 | |
Preceded by | Karl-Martin Hentschel |
Succeeded by | Eka von Kalben |
Member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein | |
Assumed office 27 February 2009 | |
Constituency | Allaince '90/The Greens List |
Personal details | |
Born |
Lübeck, West Germany (now Germany) | 2 September 1969
Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
Robert Habeck (born 2 September 1969 in Lübeck) is a German writer and politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens and has been their leader since January 2018.
Political career
Career in state politics
In 2009 Habeck was elected to the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag via the party list.[1] In November 2011, he was voted as the top candidate of his party for the 2012 Schleswig-Holstein election. From 2009 to 2012, Habeck was chairman of the Alliance'90/The Greens group in Schleswig-Holstein.
Habeck has been Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Energy, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas in the Albig Cabinet since 2012 and in the Cabinet Günther since 2017.[2] As one of his state's representatives at the Bundesrat, he serves on the Committee on Agricultural Policy and Consumer Protection; the Committee on the Environment, Nature Protection and Reactor Safety; the Committee on Economic Affairs; and the Committee on Transport. From 2014 and 2016, Habeck was one of the members of Germany’s temporary National Commission on the Disposal of Radioactive Waste.[3]
Under his leadership, the Green Party became the third largest group in the Landtag after the 2017 state elections.[4]
Role in national politics
Habeck served as a Green Party delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2012.[5] He ran to become one of the two top candidates for the Greens for the 2017 German federal election, but lost by 75 votes to Cem Özdemir.[6]
On 27 January 2018, the Green Party's national convention in Hanover elected him as chairman, a position shared with Annalena Baerbock.[7]
References
- ↑ "Landtagswahl in Schleswig-Holstein 2009 - Vorläufige Ergebnisse". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 2009-09-29. . Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein
- ↑ Homepage des Ministeriums für Energiewende, Landwirtschaft, Umwelt und ländliche Räume SH
- ↑ Abschlussbericht der Kommission Lagerung hoch radioaktiver Abfallstoffe
- ↑ CDU siegt im Norden - Schlappe für SPD Tagesschau, 5 May 2017.
- ↑ Ordentliche Mitglieder der 15. Bundesversammlung Bundestag.
- ↑ "Katrin Göring-Eckardt und Cem Özdemir gewinnen die Urwahl- BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN Bundespartei" [The Green Party members have chosen Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Cem Özdemir as frontrunners for the German federal election]. Alliance '90/The Greens (in German). Berlin, Germany. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ↑ "Grüne wählen Robert Habeck und Annalena Baerbock" (in German). Spiegel Online. 27 January 2018. Retrieved 23 February 2018.