CV

• Born on 21 December 1965 in Bad Urach.

• 1981
  Joined Die Grünen (from 1993: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)

• 1983
  Mittlere Reife (intermediate certificate of secondary education)

• 1987
  Completed training as a youth worker and started employment

• 1989
  Advanced technical college certificate

• 1989 to 1994
  Member of the State Executive of Die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg

• 1994
  Degree in social pedagogy at the Protestant University in Reutlingen.

• 1994 to 2002
  Member of the Bundestag

• 2003
  Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US in Washington DC and Brussels

• 2004 to 2009
  Member of the European Parliament

• 2008 to 2018
  Party Chair of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

• since 2013
  Member of the Bundestag

• 2013 to 2021
  Chair of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure

• since December 2021
  Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture