Winfried Kretschmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Winfried Kretschmann

German politician (Alliance 90/The Greens), Minister President of Baden-Württemberg

Date of Birth: 17-May-1948

Place of Birth: Spaichingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Profession: teacher, politician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Winfried Kretschmann

  • Winfried Kretschmann (born 17 May 1948) is a German politician serving as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg since 2011.
  • A member of the Alliance '90/Greens, he was President of the Bundesrat and ex officio deputy to the President of Germany from 2012 to 2013.
  • He is the first member of the Greens to serve in these offices.
  • Identifying himself as a green conservative, Kretschmann has been associated with both socially and economically liberal policies. Kretschmann has been a member of the state parliament, the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, since 1980, in the constituency of Nürtingen.
  • In 2006 he was the frontrunner in the Baden-Württemberg state election for his party, as he was in the state election on 27 March 2011.
  • He was also the chairman of his party's parliamentary group.Following the state election of 2011, Kretschmann was elected on 12 May 2011 by the combined Green-SPD majority in the Landtag to succeed Stefan Mappus as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, becoming the first ever Green Minister-President of any German state.
  • Kretschmann has wide personal popularity; if it were possible to elect the Minister-President directly during the Baden-Württemberg election of March 2016, Kretschmann would have won an outright majority according to polls; he was even favored by 45% of CDU supporters.
  • Kretschmann was re-elected in May 2016 as Minister-President while leading a new coalition with the Christian Democrats.On 12 October 2012 he was elected President of the German Bundesrat for the term from 1 November 2012 to 31 October 2013.
  • This was the first time since 1953, and only the second time ever, that the President was not drawn from the ranks of either the CDU/CSU or the SPD.

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