Awards & Recognition
★Grand Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2023)
★Orden wider den tierischen Ernst (2018)
★Markgräfler Gutedelpreis (2017)
Notable Facts
→First Green Party politician to serve as Minister-President in any German state (since 2011)
→President of the German Bundesrat 2012-2013, making him deputy to the German President
→Longest-serving minister-president among current German states as of 2026
→Led historic Green Party victory in 2016 Baden-Württemberg election with 30% vote share
→Former teacher who co-founded the Green Party in Baden-Württemberg in 1979
→Heads coalition government between Greens and Christian Democrats
→Has traveled internationally representing Baden-Württemberg to US, China, Japan, Israel