Jürgen Trittin
| Jürgen Trittin | |
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Trittin in January 2013
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| Chairman of Parliamentary Group of Alliance '90/The Greens with Renate Künast |
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In office 6 October 2009 – 8 October 2013 |
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| President |
Horst Köhler Christian Wulff Joachim Gauck |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Fritz Kuhn |
| Succeeded by | Anton Hofreiter |
| Federal Minister of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany | |
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In office 27 October 1998 – 22 November 2005 |
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| President |
Roman Herzog Johannes Rau Horst Köhler |
| Chancellor | Gerhard Schröder |
| Preceded by | Angela Merkel |
| Succeeded by | Sigmar Gabriel |
| Minister for Federal and European Affairs, Lower Saxony, Germany | |
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In office 1990–1994 |
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| Prime Minister | Gerhard Schröder |
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| Succeeded by | vacant |
| Personal details | |
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25 July 1954 Bremen, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Bündnis 90/Die Grünen |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Signature |  |
| Website | www.juergentrittin.de |
Jürgen Trittin (born 25 July 1954) is a German Green politician. He was Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety from 1998 to 2005 in Germany.
Trittin was born in Bremen. He earned a university degree in social economy in Göttingen and worked as journalist.
Trittin's political career started in 1982 as Secretary of the Alternative-Greens-Initiative List (AGIL) Group in the Göttingen City Council (until 1984). From 1984 to 1985, he worked as press spokesman for the Green Party's group in the Lower Saxony State Assembly, which he joined in 1985 as member of the state parliament.
From 1990 to 1994, Trittin was the Lower Saxony Minister for Federal and European Affairs in a coalition government with the SPD, led by Minister-President of Lower Saxony Gerhard Schröder (SPD). In his capacity as minister, he also served as the Head of the Lower Saxony State Mission to the Federal Government in Berlin.
After Schröder's SPD won an absolute majority in the state elections in 1994, the coalition with the Greens was ended. Trittin subsequently served as Member of the Lower Saxony State Assembly and as Deputy Chairman of the Alliance 90/The Greens group in that parliament. Also in 1994, Trittin was elected spokesman (chairman) of the national Green Party, serving alongside Krista Sager (1994–1996) and later Gunda Röstel (1996–1998).
In the 1998 national elections, Trittin was elected as Member of the German Bundestag. Upon entering parliament, he discontinued his work as party chairman, because its statutes did not allow concurrently being a member of parliament and a member of the party executive.
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