Green ministries: the new state secretaries – politics

They are said to have distributed the posts in all friendship, unlike the ministerial offices. The Greens announced on Thursday who should receive a position as Parliamentary State Secretary in their ministries. Some names are more surprising, others that were considered likely are missing.

State minister in the Foreign Office and thus the right hand of Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is to become her long-term political confidante Katja Keul. The lawyer, who left the Greens for a few years because of the Kosovo mission and because of the Kosovo mission, has made a name for herself in the Bundestag as a meticulous legal politician. But she is politically socialized in disarmament policy, she drafted the green arms control law. Minister of State in the Foreign Office will also be the peace and security politician Tobias Lindner and the member of the Bundestag Anna Lührmann. Lührmann has a master’s degree in Gender and Peace Studies completed in Sudan.

The fact that defense expert Agnieszka Brugger does not move into the Federal Foreign Office is one of the surprises of green personnel planning. Brugger was already under discussion as development aid minister. Nothing came of it. But Brugger evidently never wanted to become State Secretary. “Out of conviction and from the bottom of my heart, I would like to continue to shape international politics from within Parliament,” she said Süddeutsche Zeitung. Foreign politician Omid Nouripour, in turn, prefers to apply for the position of Green party leader.

The designated Economics and Climate Minister Robert Habeck makes the European politician Franziska Brantner Parliamentary State Secretary. Real from Baden-Württemberg, who studied in the USA and worked for the UN women’s rights organization Unifem, is likely to coordinate German climate policy in the EU. She therefore renounces her candidacy for the party chairmanship. Sven Giegold, a European politician, will also be the official state secretary under Habeck; The current federal manager Michael Kellner and the environmental expert Oliver Krischer are designated as parliamentary state secretaries.

Something is also happening in the top group of the Greens

Ekin Deligöz becomes Parliamentary State Secretary in the Family Ministry. The Neu-Ulm woman, for a long time one of the few Muslim women in the Bundestag, was discussed as Family Minister before the post went to Anne Spiegel, who is from Rhineland-Palatinate. With Deligöz, the left-wing social politician Sven Lehmann is to go to the Ministry of Family as State Secretary. The man from Cologne was most recently a spokesman for the Greens’ queer policy.

Chris Kühn, most recently spokesman for building and housing policy for the Greens, becomes Parliamentary State Secretary under Environment Minister Steffi Lemke. It is likely to focus primarily on the energetic renovation of buildings, a central element of climate policy from the perspective of the Greens. Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir brings the animal protection expert Ophelia Nick into the house as Parliamentary State Secretary, as well as the legal expert Manuela Rottmann.

But the leadership of the Greens in the Bundestag will also be renewed. It is certain, although the official application is still pending, that the previous First Parliamentary Managing Director Britta Haßelmann will move up to the top of the parliamentary group. Katharina Dröge, most recently economic policy spokeswoman in the Bundestag, has already announced her application. The previous parliamentary group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt is likely to become Vice President of the Bundestag. Fractional leader Anton Hofreiter does not apply for this office again, even if, contrary to expectations, he does not get a ministerial office. Hofreiter never intended to become parliamentary group leader again, they say.

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