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Cem Özdemir
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Cem Özdemir is a German-Turkish politician, environmentalist, and educator born in Bad Urach in 1965. He holds citizenship in both Germany and Turkey and is a member of the political party Alliance '90/The Greens. Özdemir has served as a member of the German Bundestag and the European Parliament. His professional work locations have included Berlin, Strasbourg, Brussels, and Bonn. He is a member of Atlantik-Brücke and the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Özdemir speaks German, Turkish, English, and Swabian, with German as his native language. He has participated in several German presidential elections, including those in 1999, 2009, 2010, and 2012, and was a candidate in the 2013, 2017, and 2021 German federal elections. He has received the Orden wider den tierischen Ernst and the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg.
As an author, Özdemir has published five works, including *Tacheles : Islam in Deutschland*, *Die Türkei, Currywurst und Döner*, *Ich bin Inländer*, and *Mitten in Deutschland*. He identifies with the Islamic religion and has two children.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1965
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Tacheles : Islam in Deutschland
- Die Türkei
- Currywurst und Döner
- Ich bin Inländer
- Mitten in Deutschland
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17
- Total plays
- 80
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,195x
- Acute-Phase Proteins and Other Systemic Responses to Inflammation
· 1999 · cited 5,276x
- Metastable high-entropy dual-phase alloys overcome the strength–ductility trade-off
· 2016 · cited 3,920x
- Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Links Obesity, Insulin Action, and Type 2 Diabetes
· 2004 · cited 3,186x
- A central role for JNK in obesity and insulin resistance
· 2002 · cited 2,738x
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- Scholz cabinet
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Place of birth
- Bad Urach
- Occupation
- environmentalist
- Political party
- Alliance '90/The Greens
- Languages spoken
- Swabian
- Native language
- German
- Religion
- Islam
- Official website
- www.oezdemir.de
- Image
- Cem Özdemir MdB (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Work location
- Bonn
- Residence
- Kreuzberg
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- Commons category
- Cem Özdemir
- date of birth
- 1965-12-21
- biography at the Bundestag of Germany URL
- www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/O/oezdemir_cem-857832
- name in native language
- Cem Özdemir
- hashtag
- Cem2017
- candidacy in election
- 2021 German federal election
- described by source
- Berliner Morgenpost
- different from
- Cem Özdemir
- catalog code
- 11002746
- social media followers
- 315387
- P10632
- Cem Özdemir
- lifestyle
- vegetarianism
- affiliation string
- Alliance 90/The Greens
Sources (12)
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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.
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