Annalena Baerbock
Biography of Annalena Baerbock
Date of Birth: 15.12.1980
Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock - Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs (Germany). German politician of the party Alliance 90/The Greens. Since 2013, Baerbock has been a member of the German Bundestag. Since 2018, she has been co-chair of the party with Robert Habeck.
Place of Birth. Education. Annalena Baerbock grew up on a farm in Pattensen near Hanover, as the daughter of a mechanical engineer and a social pedagogue, and has two sisters. She attended Humboldt School in Hanover.
At the age of 16, she spent a year as an exchange student in Florida. In her youth, Baerbock was successful in trampoline gymnastics at a competitive level and won the bronze medal three times at German championships.
From 2000 to 2004, she studied political science and public law at the University of Hamburg. In 2005, she obtained a master's degree in international public law at the London School of Economics. She completed an internship at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
Political Career. In 2005, Annalena Baerbock became a member of Alliance 90/The Greens. From 2008 to 2009, she worked as a foreign and security policy advisor in the parliamentary group of the Greens in the Bundestag.
From 2005 to 2008, she worked in the office of Elisabeth Schroedter in the European Parliament.
In October 2008, she was elected to the state board of the party in Brandenburg, which she chaired in 2009 until 2013.
From 2008 to 2013, she was the representative of the Federal Association Europe.
On November 14, 2009, she was elected as chairwoman of the state technical committee in Brandenburg along with Benjamin Raschke.
From 2009 to November 2012, she was a member of the Council of the European Green Party and from November 2012 to November 2015 in the party council of Alliance 90/The Greens.
In 2009, Baerbock unsuccessfully ran for a list position in the Bundestag elections. In 2013, she ran as the Green candidate in the constituency of Potsdam - Potsdam-Mittelmark II - Teltow-Fläming II and was the leading candidate of her party in Brandenburg. She entered the Bundestag via the state list.
During her first term, Baerbock was a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy, as well as the Committee on European Union Affairs. In her faction, she was the spokesperson for climate policy.
In the 2017 Bundestag elections, Baerbock ran again as the leading candidate in Brandenburg and retained her seat in parliament. After the elections, she became a member of her party's negotiation team, as Alliance 90/The Greens (unsuccessfully) conducted coalition negotiations with CDU/CSU and FDP. Since then, she has been a member of the Committee on Family, Seniors, Women and Youth.
On January 27, 2018, Baerbock was elected federal chairwoman of her party in her hometown of Hanover together with Robert Habeck, the Green Party leader. She received 64% of the votes, more than her competitor Annalena Pil. At the 2019 party congress, she was re-elected with 97.1%, which is the best result for a party chairperson.
On April 19, 2021, Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck announced that the federal leadership of the Greens nominated Baerbock as the chancellor candidate for the 2021 Bundestag elections. Historically, Baerbock is the second woman after Angela Merkel to run for the highest state office. No previous chancellor candidate was younger than Baerbock.
On November 24, 2021, Baerbock was appointed Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs in Olaf Scholz's cabinet. She assumed office on December 8.
Family. Annalena Baerbock is married to political advisor Daniel Holefleisch (b. 1973) and has two daughters, born in 2011 and 2015. The family lives in Potsdam, Brandenburg.
20.09.2023