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Turkish-German environmentalist and statesperson (born 1965)

Person · Open Library

Born
1965
Works
5

Top works

  • Tacheles : Islam in Deutschland
  • Die Türkei
  • Currywurst und Döner
  • Ich bin Inländer
  • Mitten in Deutschland

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Türkiye

Discography

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Listeners
17
Total plays
80

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Key facts

Deputy
Manuel Hagel
Preceded by
Winfried Kretschmann
Chancellor
Olaf Scholz
Succeeded by
Alois Rainer
Constituency
Stuttgart I
Born
( 1965-12-21 ) 21 December 1965 (age 60) , Urach , Baden-Württemberg , West Germany
Party
The Greens (since 1981)
Spouses
Pia María Castro ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2003 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2023 ) ​ Flavia Zaka ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2026 ) ​
Education
Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg

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Encyclopedic overview

Cem Özdemir ( German: [ˈdʒɛm ˈœsdemiːɐ̯]; Turkish: [ˈdʒem ˈœzdemiɾ]; born 21 December 1965) is a German politician serving as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg since 2026. He served as Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture in the cabinet of Olaf Scholz from December 2021 to May 2025. From November 2024 to May 2025 he additionally served as Federal Minister of Education and Research, making him the first federal minister in Germany with Circassian ancestry. After his party's victory in the 2026 Baden-Württemberg state election, he became minister-president of this state.

Between 2008 and 2018, Özdemir co-chaired The Greens together with Claudia Roth and later Simone Peter. He has been a Member of the German Bundestag since 2013, having previously served from 1994 to 2002, when he became one of the first two Bundestag members of Circassian descent. From 2004 to 2009 he served as a Member of the European Parliament. In the 2017 federal election Özdemir and Katrin Göring-Eckardt ran jointly as The Greens’ lead candidates.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cem Özdemir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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