Jürgen Trittin

born: 1954
one child
land list: Lower Saxony

Office in Berlin
T: +49 30 / 227 - 74539
F: +49 30 / 227 - 76657
juergen.trittin@bundestag.de

Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group

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The most urgent questions concerning our future can only be solved at international level.This holds true even more in today's globalised world. Climate change, air and water pollution, poverty and disease, resource scarcity and resource conflicts, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: all these problems do not stop at national borders. International security has to be redefined and the debate broadened in order to include environmental and developmental issues.

This is the analytical basis for my work as coordinator for international affairs and human rights. I share the values stated by Kofi Annan: Freedom from need and fear, and the freedom to live a dignified life should become the cornerstones of international politics.

The European concept and European institutions are both the consequence of and answer to the dynamics of globalisation. I consider the political and institutional framework of the European Union as a paradigm for the multilateral approach that we need for today´s world. In my work I will therefore always emphasise the further advancement of the EU. The current crisis of citizen support for the EU can only be overcome if the people perceive Europe as representing both economic progress and social cohesion, as securing peace and ensuring ecological sustainability.

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Committees

• EU Committee (m.)
• Committee on Foreign Affairs (alt. m.)

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Political CV

• Secretary of the Alternative Greens Initiative List (AGIL) group in Göttingen city council (1982-84)
• Spokesperson for the Green parliamentary group in the provincial legislature of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) (1984-85)
• Member of the provincial legislature of Lower Saxony (1985-90), chairman from 1985–1986 and from 1988–1990
• Lower Saxony Minister for Federal and European Affairs, member of the Bundesrat, (the upper house of German Parliament) (1990-94)
• Member of the provincial legislature of Lower Saxony and vice chairman of the Green Party group in the provincial legislature (1994-95)
• Chairperson of the Federal Green Party (1994-1998)
• Member of German Bundestag (since 1998)
• Federal Minister for the Environment (1998 – 2005)
• Deputy Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group and Policy Coordinator, Working Group 4 (2005-2009)