Renate Künast
| Renate Künast | |
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Renate Künast
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 2009 |
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| Chairwoman of Parliamentary Group of Alliance '90/The Greens with Fritz Kuhn (2005-2009) with Jürgen Trittin (2009-2013) |
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In office 2005–2013 |
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| President |
Horst Köhler Christian Wulff Joachim Gauck |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Katrin Göring-Eckardt |
| Succeeded by | Katrin Göring-Eckardt |
| Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection | |
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In office 12 January 2001 – 4 October 2005 |
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| Chancellor | Gerhard Schröder |
| Preceded by | Karl-Heinz Funke |
| Succeeded by |
Jürgen Trittin (acting) Horst Seehofer |
| Member of the Berlin House of Deputies | |
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In office 1989–2000 |
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| Personal details | |
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15 December 1955 Recklinghausen, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party |
 German:Alliance '90/The Greens  EU:The Greens–European Free Alliance |
| Residence | Berlin, Germany |
| Alma mater |
Fachhochschule Düsseldorf Free University of Berlin |
| Occupation | attorney |
Renate Elly Künast (born 15 December 1955) is a German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens. She was the Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture from 2001 to 2005 and subsequently served as chairwoman of her party's parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
Künast was born in Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia. She studied social work in Düsseldorf and worked from 1977 to 1979 in this profession in a jailhouse in Berlin. After that she studied law at the Free University of Berlin until 1985. During her student years, she often protested against the Gorleben nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant. She later worked as lawyer specializing on aliens law and criminal law.
Since 1979, Künast has been a member of the German Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), first in the Alternative List in West Berlin. In the 1990s she was member of parliament and chairwoman of the Green Party's group in the state parliament of Berlin. During that time, she won cross-party respect for her leading role in drafting a new democratic constitution for the reunified city-state. Künast eventually became the party’s spokeswoman for legal issues. In 1998, she re-assumed the floor leadership post alongside Michaele Schreyer.
In national politics, Künast came to be known as a tough negotiator for her work in drafting the national red-green coalition agreement after the 1998 federal parliamentary elections. In October 1999, she was the Green’ front-runner in Berlin’s parliamentary race.
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