Annalena Baerbock | |
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.jpg) Baerbock in 2024 | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| Assumed office 8 December 2021 | |
| Chancellor | Olaf Scholz |
| Preceded by | Heiko Maas |
| Leader of Alliance 90/The Greens | |
| In office 27 January 2018 – 29 January 2022 Serving with Robert Habeck | |
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| Preceded by | Simone Peter |
| Succeeded by | Ricarda Lang |
| Leader of Alliance 90/The Greens in Brandenburg | |
| In office 14 November 2009 – 16 November 2013 Serving with Benjamin Raschke | |
| Preceded by | Ska Keller |
| Succeeded by | Petra Budke |
| Member of the Bundestag for Brandenburg | |
| Assumed office 22 October 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Cornelia Behm |
| Constituency | Alliance 90/The Greens List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock 15 December 1980 Hanover, West Germany |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Spouse | Daniel Holefleisch (m. 2007) |
| Children | 2 |
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Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock (German: [anaˈleːna ˈbɛːɐ̯bɔk] ; born 15 December 1980) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party serving as Germany's minister for foreign affairs since 2021.
From 2018 to January 2022, Baerbock served as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongside Robert Habeck. She was the party's candidate for chancellor in the 2021 federal election. Olaf Scholz from SPD secured the chancellery instead of Baerbock.[1][2] After the election, the Greens formed a traffic light coalition led by Olaf Scholz, and Baerbock was sworn in as Germany's first female foreign minister on 8 December 2021.
Born in Hanover, West Germany, in 1980, Baerbock attended the University of Hamburg and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was first elected to the Bundestag in 2013. From 2012 to 2015, she was a member of the party council of Alliance 90/The Greens and from 2009 to 2013, the leader of her party's group in the state of Brandenburg.
- ^ Basu, Zachary (24 November 2021). "Olaf Scholz to succeed Merkel as German chancellor". Axios. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ Thorsten Faas & Tristan Klingelhöfer (2022) German politics at the traffic light: new beginnings in the election of 2021, West European Politics, 45:7, 1506–1521, DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2022.2045783