Andreas Braun (politician)

Andreas Braun (left) with Fritz Kuhn, Winfried Kretschmann and Petra Selg 2006

Andreas Braun (born March 21, 1964 in Darmstadt) was the country's chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg from 1999 to 2006.

Braun studied from 1983 to 1988 Protestant theology in Tübingen. From 1987 to 1990 he was a member of the Bundestag's Christa Vennegerts.

From 1992 to 2004, he was the consultant for European and international politics at the trade union for public services, transport and transport and ver.di and from 2004 to 2005 trade union secretary at the Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund. Braun has been head of communication and marketing at the Stuttgart Clinic since 2005.

In 1997, he became a member of the enlarged Green Party. On 24 April 1999, he was elected co-chairman of the Baden-Wuerttemberg's twin peak, alongside Monika Schnaitmann. Since 2 December 2005 and his third re-election, the former Bundestag deputy Petra Selg was the second of the two equal chairmen. On 10 May 2006, Braun announced his resignation from the Office of the President of the Land for the Provincial Assembly on 11 and 12 November 2006. Daniel Mouratidis was elected as his successor on 12 November 2006.

At the Bundestag elections in 2002, Braun was a candidate on the state list Baden-Württemberg of the Greens. At the regional delegation conference of the Green Baden-Wuerttemberg on 11 October 2008 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Andreas Braun received a vote for the candidature on the federal list of the Greens for the European elections in 2009.

Andreas Braun is married and has three children. Sources and Annotations Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext

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