Cem Özdemir
Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture
Federal Minister Cem Özdemir has led the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture since December 2021. Within the Federal Government, the Federal Minister is responsible for German food and agricultural policy.
Born in Bad Urach on 21 December 1965; married, two children.
| 1981 | Joined THE GREENS (from 1993: ALLIANCE 90 / THE GREENS) |
| 1983 | "Mittlere Reife" (school-leaving certificate at 16) |
| 1987 | Completion of training as an early childhood educator and beginning of working life |
| 1989 | "Fachhochschulreife" (university entrance qualification restricted to a specific field of study) |
| 1989 - 1994 | Member of the Land Executive Board of The Greens in Baden-Württemberg |
| 1994 | Graduation as "Diplom-Sozialpädagoge (FH)" (Master of Arts in Social Pedagogy), Evangelische Fachhochschule für Sozialwesen (Protestant University of Applied Sciences for Social Affairs) in Reutlingen. |
| 1994 - 2002 | Member of the German Bundestag |
| 2003 | Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. in Washington DC and Brussels |
| 2004 - 2009 | Member of the European Parliament |
| 2008 - 2018 | Chair of BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN |
| since 2013 | Member of the German Bundestag |
| 2018 - 2021 | Chair of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure |
A selection of awards received by Cem Özdemir include the Theodor Heuss Medal (1996), the prize for the “2018 Speech of the Year” from the “Seminar für Allgemeine Rhetorik” (Department for General Rhetoric) at the University of Tübingen, the Ignatz Bubis Prize (2019) and the Dolf Sternberger Prize for Political Speech (2019).
