Since 2022

Lower Saxony Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection

2017 until 2022

Deputy Chairman of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen state parliamentary group

2013 to 2017

Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection

Since 2008

Member of the Lower Saxony state parliament

2004 to 2008

Managing Director of the Förderverein Ökologische Steuerreform e.V. (Association for the Promotion of Ecological Tax Reform)

2003

Worked for MEP Hiltrud Breyer in the areas of climate protection, environment, energy, animal welfare and nuclear phase-out in Berlin and Brussels

1996 until 2002

Studied economics, public law, political science and media studies at the University of Göttingen, graduating with a degree in social economics

1996

Civilian service in the speech therapy kindergarten of the Lebenshilfe, Holzminden

1995

High school diploma in Holzminden

July 23, 1975

Born in Holzminden