Anja Siegesmund
Anja Siegesmund | |
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| Member of the Jena City Council | |
| Assumed office 26 May 2019 | |
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| Born | Anja Kaschta 16 January 1977 Gera, East Germany |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Children | 3 |
Anja Siegesmund (born 16 January 1977) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. Between 2014 and 2023, she served as Minister of the Environment in the state government of Thuringia in the coalition government of Bodo Ramelow. Until 31 January 2023, she was also Second Deputy Minister-President of Thuringia. From 2009 to 2014 she was leader of the Greens parliamentary group in the Landtag of Thuringia. She was a member of the Landtag from 2009 to 2015, then again from 2019 to 2020.[1] In December 2022 she announced her imminent resignation from her political offices; on 1 February 2023 she was succeeded by Bernhard Stengele.[2]
Personal life and education
Siegesmund was born Anja Kaschta in
Political career
Siegesmund joined Alliance 90/The Greens in 2002, and from 2003 to 2008 was a consultant in the office of Bundestag deputy Katrin Göring-Eckardt. From 2004 to 2012 she was the spokeswoman of the Jena district association of the Greens.[1]
In the
In the 2019 Thuringian local elections, Siegesmund was elected to the city council of Jena.[4][5]
Siegesmund again served alongside Dirk Adams as the Greens' top candidates in the 2019 state election, and was elected as the number one candidate on the party list.[6] She ran as a candidate in the constituency Jena I and placed second with 24.7% of the vote, the best performance of any Greens candidate in the election.[7]
Siegesmund left cabinet after the defeat of the government during the February 2020 Thuringian government crisis, but returned after Bodo Ramelow was re-elected in March.[1] On 17 March, she again resigned her seat in the Landtag.[8]
Appearance in documentaries
- 2022: Wild Forests by David Cebulla[9]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Ministerin". Ministry for Environment, Energy, and Nature Conservation.
- ^ Stefan Locke (23 December 2022). "Thüringens Umweltministerin tritt überraschend zurück". FAZ.net (in German). Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ "Approved party lists" (PDF). Wahlen in Thüringen. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2014.
- ^ "Wahlen in Thüringen".
- ^ "Politische Gremein". Stadrat Jena.
- ^ "Approved state lists" (PDF). Wahlen in Thüringen. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 October 2019.
- ^ "Landtagswahl in Thüringen am 27. Oktober 2019" (PDF). Wahlen in Thüringen.
- ^ "Mandatsnachfolge im Thüringer Landtag". Landtag of Thuringia. 17 March 2020. Archived from the original on 17 March 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ Wilde Wälder (2022) - IMDb, retrieved 24 April 2023
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