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Kuhn was one of the founding members of the Green Party in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1980. |
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From 1981 to 1984 he worked as a research assistant at Augsburg university and as a consultant to the parliamentary party of the Greens in the state parliament (''Landtag'') of Baden-Württemberg (South-West Germany).<ref name="wiwo">[http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen-maerkte/koepfe-der-wirtschaft/fritz-kuhn-458/biografie {{de icon}} His „Biographie” in WirtschaftsWoche Online (wiwo.de)]</ref> |
From 1981 to 1984 he worked as a research assistant at Augsburg university and as a consultant to the parliamentary party of the Greens in the state parliament (''Landtag'') of Baden-Württemberg (South-West Germany).<ref name="wiwo">[http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen-maerkte/koepfe-der-wirtschaft/fritz-kuhn-458/biografie {{de icon}} His „Biographie” in WirtschaftsWoche Online (wiwo.de)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724051600/http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen-maerkte/koepfe-der-wirtschaft/fritz-kuhn-458/biografie/ |date=2011-07-24 }}</ref> |
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=== Member of parliament in Baden-Württemberg === |
=== Member of parliament in Baden-Württemberg === |
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724051600/http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen-maerkte/koepfe-der-wirtschaft/fritz-kuhn-458/biografie/ ''Wirtschaftswoche''] |
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Fritz Kuhn | |
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Lord Mayor of Stuttgart | |
Assumed office 2012 | |
Preceded by | Wolfgang Schuster |
Member of the Bundestag of Germany | |
In office 2002–2012 | |
Chairman of Parliamentary Group of Alliance '90/The Greens with Renate Künast (2005-2009) | |
In office 2005–2009 | |
President | Horst Köhler Christian Wulff |
Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
Preceded by | Katrin Göring-Eckardt |
Succeeded by | Jürgen Trittin |
Personal details | |
Born | Bad Mergentheim, Germany | 29 June 1955
Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
Residence(s) | Stuttgart, Germany |
Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Tübingen |
Fritz Kuhn (born 29 June 1955) is a German politician. He was co-chairman of Alliance '90/The Greens, the German Green party, from June 2000 to December 2002. On 21 October 2012 he was elected Mayor of Stuttgart.
Early life and education
Fritz Kuhn was born in Bad Mergentheim (Baden-Württemberg) and grew up in Memmingen (Bayern), where he attended Bernhard Strigel grammar school. After his A-levels he studied German and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Tübingen, with a master's thesis in the field of linguistics.[citation needed]
Political career
Kuhn was one of the founding members of the Green Party in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1980.
From 1981 to 1984 he worked as a research assistant at Augsburg university and as a consultant to the parliamentary party of the Greens in the state parliament (Landtag) of Baden-Württemberg (South-West Germany).[1]
Member of parliament in Baden-Württemberg
Kuhn became an MP and the leader of the parliamentary party of the Greens (Alliance '90/The Greens from 1993) in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, the state's legislature, in 1984, a position he held until 1988, and then later again from 1992 to 2000, having worked as a Professor of Linguistic Communication in the years in between.
Fritz Kuhn was one of the two federal chairpersons of Alliance '90/The Greens from 2000 to 2002, first together with Renate Künast, then with Claudia Roth. He resigned from that office in October 2002 after having been elected as a member of the Bundestag, the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany. There was a rule in the Green Party in those days that you could not be an MP and hold a party office at the same time.[1]
Member of the parliament of Germany, 2002-2012
Fritz Kuhn first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2002 federal elections. In the Bundestag, he specialized in the fields of the economy (fighting for “a green market economy” [2]) and employment, and foreign policy. From 2002 until 2005, he served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Between 2005 and 2009, Kuhn was one of the two leaders of the Green parliamentary party (together with Renate Künast), from 2009 he served as deputy leader.
For the 2005 federal elections, Kuhn was the campaign manager of Alliance ‘90/The Greens. At the 2009 election, he unsuccessfully contested the single member constituency of Heidelberg.
Between 2007 and 2009, Kuhn was one of 32 members of the Second Commission on the modernization of the federal state (Föderalismuskommission II), which had been established to reform the division of powers between federal and state authorities in Germany.
Mayor of Stuttgart, 2012–present
On 21 October 2012 Kuhn was elected Lord Mayor of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg with 52.9% of the votes.[3] His 8-years-term as Mayor (Oberbürgermeister) began in January 2013. Stuttgart has a population of about 600,000 and is capital city of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg. Kuhn was the first candidate of the German Green party to win in a city of such importance.
He took over from Wolfgang Schuster, his predecessor, on 7 January 2013.
Other activities
- Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), Ex-Officio Member of the Supervisory Board[4]
- Stuttgart Airport, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board[5]
- Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart (VVS), Ex-Officio Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- Stadtwerke Stuttgart, Ex-Officio Chairman of the Supervisory Board[6]
- Heinrich Böll Foundation, Member of the Board
- Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Member of the Board of Trustees
- Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Member of the Board of Trustees
Personal life
Kuhn is married and has two sons.
His hobbies are reading (favourite author: Salman Rushdie), running, and cooking (especially Italian dishes). He is also a football fan (FC Bayern Munich).[1]
See also
- Dieter Salomon, the first Green party mayor of a German Großstadt (a large city)
References
- ^ a b c Template:De icon His „Biographie” in WirtschaftsWoche Online (wiwo.de) Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.gruene-bundestag.de/cms/abgeordnete/dok/81/81511.html
- ^ "Greens win Stuttgart mayoral vote". Irish Independent. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
- ^ Supervisory Board Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW).
- ^ Supervisory Board Stuttgart Airport.
- ^ Supervisory Board Stadtwerke Stuttgart.
External links (in German)
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