Greens party leader Robert Habeck (49) is considered a candidate for the post of Chancellor. We reveal who the politician is and what his goals are.
- Robert Habeck leads the party Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen as party leader in double leadership.
- For many he is considered a candidate for chancellor, but he himself lowers expectations.
- Apart from politics, he worked as a book author.
Berlin - Robert Habeck is party leader of the Greens, of course in a double head, as is usual in the party. He has been considered a hot candidate for a chancellor candidate inside and outside the Greens - although he himself wants to reject the idea of a green chancellor candidate. So who is the top politician on whom there are so many hopes in his party?
Green Party leader Robert Habeck: The political career
Robert Habeck moved to the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag for the first time in 2009 via the party's state list and became group leader. He is considered a whiz with the North Greens. In the early election in 2012, he ran as a top candidate. After this election, Habeck served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas in the Albig cabinet until 2017.
After the 2017 state election, Robert Habeck was reappointed to the same offices in the Günther cabinet on June 28, 2017. However, due to his election as the federal chairman of his party, he only carried this out temporarily: his party friends even had to change the statutes for this. He is assigned to the so-called Realo wing of the party. Habeck describes himself on his homepage as an "outside minister" and as a "politician with skin and hair".
The party chairmen of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, take part in the party council meeting of their party.
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Robert Habeck's curriculum vitae in school, community service and studies
Habeck graduated from high school in 1989 at the Heinrich Heine School in Heikendorf. After completing his civilian service at the then Hamburg Spastic Association, today living with a handicap, the Hamburg Parents Association - in 1991 he began studying philosophy, German studies and philology at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1996 he received his master's degree from the University of Hamburg with a treatise on the poems by Casimir Ulrich Boehlendorff (1775 - 1825), about which he published a book a year later. From 1996 to 1998 Habeck completed his doctoral studies at the University of Hamburg and in 2000 received a doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on literary aesthetics.
With this affinity for language, it is hardly surprising that Habeck is also fluent in Danish.
Wife and children: Robert Habeck privately
Robert Habeck was born in Lübeck on September 2, 1969. He discovered his penchant for politics early on. “Habeck likes to be a professional politician. He needs a bigger battlefield than our desk, "said his wife Andrea Paluch once in an interview with the NDR 1 Welle Nord They both got to know and love each other while playing theater while studying in Baden-Württemberg, he says in an interview with the Kieler Nachrichten.
Robert Habeck married the writer in 1996. After a son, twins were born in 1999. The family moved to Lüneburg and in 2001 to Flensburg. Her fourth son was born there in 2002.
Robert Habeck at the age of 35: In 2004 he was elected Spokesman for the Alliance 90 / The Greens in Schleswig-Holstein.
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Robert Habeck works with his wife as a writer
Robert Habeck and his wife Andrea Paluch have been working as freelance writers and publishing together since 1999. In interviews, they always emphasize that their dual authorship is a conscious decision for a joint life plan. In addition to children's books and translations of English poetry, they both published the novels Hauke Haiens Tod (2001), The Scream of the Hyenas (2004), The Day I Met My Dead Man (2005) and many other works.
Chancellor candidate? Habeck doesn't like this title
The Greens, under Habeck's leadership, soared and did not shy away from drastic announcements in the event of government involvement. The party leader has promised serious changes if the Greens participate in a future federal cabinet.
And what about a green candidate for chancellor? Habeck rejected such advances from his party in 2019. As Greens, the first step now was to concentrate on pursuing constructive opposition policies. "We are in the middle of a legislative period that is difficult enough."
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Robert Habeck was already criticized
In January 2019, Habeck came under criticism after posting a video on Twitter. "We try to do everything to make Thuringia an open, free, liberal, democratic country, an ecological country," said the party leader there. It sounded as if Thuringia was so far neither open nor free, liberal or democratic. A gigantic shit storm was the result, Habeck responded by withdrawing from all social online networks, as merkur.de * reported. In panel discussions, for example with Anne Will, he also contributes to country issues.
And what about his party? The Greens' electoral successes were exhilarating under Habeck. This poses a problem for the eco party. Because the Greens are not as bourgeois as they like to be, says Georg Anastasiadis, editor-in-chief of Munich's Merkur.
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* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network
