Awards & Recognition
★Elected Vice Chancellor of Germany (2021-2025)
★Co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens (2018-2022)
★Deputy Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein (2012-2018)
Notable Facts
→Served as Vice Chancellor of Germany and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (2021-2025)
→Co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens party alongside Annalena Baerbock (2018-2022)
→Published author with 33 books including novels and children's books co-written with wife Andrea Paluch
→Has 596K Instagram followers but famously quit Twitter and Facebook in 2019 due to harassment and data breach
→Recently returned to X/Twitter in November 2024 for election campaign purposes
→Led major industrial decarbonization initiatives including €2 billion funding for thyssenkrupp Steel
→Fluent in Danish and holds a PhD in philosophy