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Cem Özdemir
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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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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
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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.