Robert Habeck

Robert Habeck (born 2 September 1969 in Lübeck) is a German writer and politician of Alliance '90/The Greens and has been their leader since January 2018.

Robert Habeck
Leader of Alliance '90/The Greens
Assumed office
27 January 2018
Serving with Annalena Baerbock
DeputyGesine Agena
Jamila Schäfer
Preceded byCem Özdemir
Minister for the Energy Transition, Environment, Agriculture and Digitization of Schleswig-Holstein
In office
12 June 2012 – 1 September 2018
Prime MinisterTorsten Albig
Daniel Günther
Preceded byJuliane Rumpf
Succeeded byJan Philipp Albrecht
Deputy Minister President of Schleswig Holstein
In office
12 June 2012 – 6 February 2018
Prime MinisterTorsten Albig
Daniel Günther
Preceded byHeiner Garg
Succeeded byMonika Heinold
Leader of Alliance '90/Greens in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
In office
27 September 2009 – 12 June 2012
Preceded byKarl-Martin Hentschel
Succeeded byEka von Kalben
Member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
Assumed office
27 February 2009
ConstituencyAlliance '90/The Greens List
Personal details
Born (1969-09-02) 2 September 1969
Lübeck, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyAlliance '90/The Greens

Early life, education and writing

Habeck passed his final secondary-school examinations in 1989 at the Heinrich Heine School in Heikendorf in the Plön (district). After completing his community service in 1991 he began studying for a master’s degree with a combination of philosophy, German and philology at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg im Breisgau. After the intermediate examination in 1992/93 he attended the Roskilde University in Denmark. In 1996 Robert Habeck received a master's degree from the University of Hamburg. From 1996 to 1998 Habeck completed a doctorate at the University of Hamburg and was awarded a doctorate in philosophy in 2000.[1] Since 1999 Robert Habeck and his wife Andrea Paluch have been working as freelance writers. In addition to children's books and translations of English poetry, Robert Habeck (with Andrea Paluch) published the six novels, among others, Hauke Haien's Death (2001), The Day I Met My Dead Man (2005) and Under the Gully lies the sea (2007).[2] Habeck is fluent in Danish.[3]

Political career

Career in state politics

In 2009, Habeck was elected to the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag via the party list.[4] 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 center-left Albig Cabinet since 2012 and in the center-right Cabinet Günther between 2017 and 2018.[5] Under his influence – he was not a candidate for parliament – the Green Party became the third largest group in the Landtag after the 2017 state elections.[6] As one of his state's representatives at the Bundesrat, he served 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.[7]

Role in federal politics

Habeck served as a Green Party delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2012.[8] 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.[9]

On 27 January 2018, the Green Party's national convention in Hanover elected him as chairman, a position shared with Annalena Baerbock.[10]

References
  1. Robert Habeck: Die Natur der Literatur: zur gattungstheoretischen Begründung literarischer Ästhetizität, Dissertation Universität Hamburg 2000, Königshausen und Neumann, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-8260-2066-9.
  2. {{Internetquelle |url=https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/wer-wagt-beginnt/978-3-462-31609-4/ |titel=Robert Habeck: Wer wagt, beginnt |titelerg=Gegen eine verzagte Demokratie – wir müssen für unsere Republik streiten!
  3. Merlin Christophersen und Anna-Lise Bjerager (2018-09-15). ""Ich bin nicht nur da zuhause, wo meine Muttersprache gesprochen wird"". Der Nordschleswiger. Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  4. "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
  5. Homepage des Ministeriums für Energiewende, Landwirtschaft, Umwelt und ländliche Räume SH
  6. CDU siegt im Norden - Schlappe für SPD Tagesschau, 5 May 2017.
  7. Abschlussbericht der Kommission Lagerung hoch radioaktiver Abfallstoffe
  8. Ordentliche Mitglieder der 15. Bundesversammlung Bundestag.
  9. "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.
  10. "Grüne wählen Robert Habeck und Annalena Baerbock" (in German). Spiegel Online. 27 January 2018. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
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