Katrin Göring-Eckardt
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Katrin Göring-Eckardt
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| Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Group of Alliance '90/The Greens with Anton Hofreiter (2013-present) |
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Assumed office 2013 |
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Joachim Gauck Frank-Walter Steinmeier |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Renate Künast |
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Vice President of the Bundestag (Green Party faction) |
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In office 18 October 2005 – 2013 Serving with See Presidium of the Bundestag from the 16th Legislative Session (2005-2009) onward for details. |
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Horst Köhler, Christian Wulff, Joachim Gauck (Federal President) |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Antje Vollmer (Greens' VP of Bundestag) |
| Succeeded by | Claudia Roth (Greens' VP of Bundestag) |
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Member of the Bundestag for Thuringia (List MP) |
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Assumed office 1998 |
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Katrin Dagmar Eckardt 3 May 1966 Friedrichroda, Thuringia (then part of East Germany) |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | University of Leipzig |
| Profession | Politician, Theologian |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
| Website | Official Website (German) |
Horst Köhler, Christian Wulff, Joachim Gauck (Federal President)
Katrin Dagmar Göring-Eckardt (born Katrin Dagmar Eckardt; 3 May 1966), better known as Katrin Göring-Eckardt, is a German politician from the German Green Party (officially known as Alliance '90/The Greens; German: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). Starting her political activity in the now-former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the late 1980s, she has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998. She became co-chair of her party caucus in the Bundestag (2002–2005) and the Greens' Vice President of the Bundestag on 18 October 2005, a position that she has held since then. In the November 2012 primary election, the Green Party chose her and Jürgen Trittin as the top two candidates for the Greens for the 2013 German federal election that took place on 22 September 2013. She is once again standing to be one of the top two candidates for the Greens for the 2017 German federal election.
In addition, between 2009 and 2013, Göring-Eckardt served as praeses of the synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (German: Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated EKD) and thus as member of the Council of the EKD. However, during the federal election campaign in 2013, she stepped down from her office in the EKD.
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