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Since December 2021
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
2013 to 2021
Parliamentary Secretary and Spokesperson for Nature Conservation of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (the Greens) parliamentary group
Member, Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Since September 2013
Member of the Bundestag
2002 to 2013
Federal party manager of the Greens
1998 to 2002
Parliamentary Secretary of the Greens parliamentary group
Member of the Council of Elders
1994 to 2002
Member of the Bundestag
1993 to 1994
Parliamentary Secretary of the City Council roup Bürger/Forum/Grüne in Dessau
1993 to 1994
Member of the Saxony-Anhalt Green party state executive committee
1989
Founding member of the Green party in the GDR
1988 to 1993
Study of agricultural sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin
1986 to 1988
Worked as a postal carrier
1984 to 1986
Training as an agricultural technician in a dairy
1974 to 1984
Attended Dessau polytechnical secondary school
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