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Robert Habeck:
With Sven Giegold and Patrik Graichen, the designated Minister of Economic Affairs has brought two political heavyweights into his team
Photo: SEAN GALLUP / POOL / EPA
With
Sven Giegold
and
Patrik Graichen
brings the future super-minister
Robert Habeck
(52) for information from manager magazin two political heavyweights as state secretaries in his team.
Habeck is to take over a newly cut ministry for the economy and climate protection in the new coalition and become vice-chancellor-designate
Olaf Scholz
(63; SPD).
One week after the publication of the coalition agreement of the future federal government made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP, it is becoming increasingly clear who should implement the transformation of the economy towards more climate protection, which the traffic light coalitionists promise.
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Strong
opinion: Attac co-founder
Sven Giegold is
moving from the European Parliament to Robert Habeck's super ministry
Photo: FRANCOIS WALSCHAERTS / AFP
With his personnel decisions, Habeck brings two opinionated experts to his side.
Giegold
(52) is one of the most eloquent Greens in the European Parliament, of which he has been a member since 2009.
The economist, who once
co-founded
the globalization-critical
Attac
network
, has been one of the loudest fighters against tax havens and for more transparency in the financial sector for years.
Giegold would like to see new crypto currencies such as Bitcoin more regulated.
Graichen
has been the Executive Director of
Agora Energiewende
since 2014
.
Since it was founded in 2012, it has blossomed into one of the most influential think tanks for the ecological restructuring of the economy.
He is familiar with government work: Before Graichen moved to the think tank in 2012, the political scientist and economist with a doctorate worked for the Federal Environment Ministry for more than ten years.
There are probably only a few political managers in Berlin who are more deeply involved than Graichen in issues such as climate protection, the energy transition or electromobility.
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Patrik Graichen
is currently Executive Director of the Agora Energiewende think tank
Photo: Detlef Eden / picture alliance / dpa
With his job change, Graichen is following the example of Agora co-founder Rainer Baake (66), who moved to the Federal Ministry of Economics from Sigmar Gabriel (62; SPD) in 2014 as State Secretary.
Today Baake is director of the Climate Neutrality Foundation.
Habeck also has a third top job.
Anja Hajduk
(58) is to
coordinate the work of his ministry in the future
.
The Greens was Senator for Urban Development and the Environment in Hamburg from 2008 to 2010 and sat in the Bundestag for a total of 14 years between 2002 and 2021.
SPIEGEL first reported on this third person.
The Greens initially left a request on Habeck's personnel decisions unanswered.
A spokeswoman for the Agora Energiewende did not want to comment on Graichen's change on request.