Katrin Göring-Eckardt © Katrin Göring-Eckardt/ Rainer Kurzeder

Employee, spokeswoman for the Thuringian Land branch of Alliance 90/The Greens, Vice-President of the German Bundestag

Born on 3 May 1966 in Friedrichroda (Thuringia); Protestant; married, two sons.

Attended polytechnic school and advanced upper secondary school; obtained Abitur (higher education entrance qualification). Studied theology.

Assistant to the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group in the Thuringian Land Parliament; employed by a Member of the Bundestag.

In the GDR without party affiliation; involved in the Church of Solidarity opposition group. In 1989 member of Democratic Awakening, in 1990 member of Democracy Now, then of Alliance 90 and Alliance 90/The Greens; member of the federal spokespersons’ council of Alliance 90; member of the executive committee of Land branch of Alliance 90 and then Alliance 90/The Greens; chairwoman of Alliance 90/The Greens county council group from 1991 to 1994; spokeswoman for the Thuringian Land branch of Alliance 90/The Greens from 1995 to 1998 and since 2002; member of the federal executive of Alliance 90/The Greens from 1996 to 1998.

Member of the German Bundestag since 1998; deputy parliamentary secretary from October 1998 to 2002 and first parliamentary secretary of the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group in 2002; chairwoman of the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group from October 2002 to September 2005. Vice-President of the German Bundestag since 18 October 2005.

Membership of Bundestag bodies

• Vice-President of the German Bundestag
• Deputy Chairwoman:
  Council of Elders
• Member:
  Council of Elders
• Substitute member:
  Committee on Labour and Social Affairs
  Committee on Health