Joschka Fischer

Joseph Martin Fischer , more known under the name of Joschka Fischer , born the April 12th 1948 with Gerabronn (Bade-Wurtemberg), is a German Politician . From 1998 to 2005, it is Vice-chancelier and Foreign Minister of Germany.

Biography

Joschka Fischer is the third child of a German couple of Hungary who had to leave Budapest in 1946 after the invasion of Hungary by Stalin. They settle with Langenburg in Bade-Wurtemberg.

Its nickname Joschka is derived from Jóska , diminutive of the Hungarian first name József .

In 1965, it leaves the college ( Gymnasium ) and starts a training of photographer whom it stops in ue year later.

In 1967, it engages in the movement of the German students. As from 1968 he lives with Francfort-sur-le-Main and saw occasional work while continuing his political activities. In his professional path one can quote, in 1971 a passage of a few months as working in a factory Opel of which it is returned because of its activities of propaganda. He was also taxi driver and worked in a bookstore.

At the time of the German autumn ( Deutscher Herbst ) in 1977, the leader of German employers Hanns-Martin Schleyer was removed then killed by the Red Army Fraction (RAF) and a plane of the Lufthansa was diverted. These events pushed Joschka Fischer to give up the violent actions and to turn to the reciprocating motion, then later towards the party of the Greens.

Political career

Entered in 1982 the party ecologist die Grünen (Greens), it becomes appointed with the Bundestag, the federal Parliament, in 1983 and will remain to it until March 1985.

From December 1985 in February 1987 he is Minister of environment and for the Energy of the Land of Hesse, in the cabinet of the social democrat Holger Börner. It is about the first governmental participation of the German Greens in a Land. The energy and Department of the Environment is created on this occasion.

It will occupy this function second once of 1991 to 1994. For this period, he is also minister for the federal businesses.

From April 1987 in April 1991, he is appointed and chair parliamentary group of the Greens the Parliament of the Land of Hesse.

Between October 1994 and October 1998, he is the spokesperson of the party Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Alliance 90/Les Verts). He is again elected appointed at the Bundestag in October 1994 and will remain to it until September 2006.

Of October 27th, 1998 in October 2005, it is Vice-chancelier and federal minister for the Foreign affairs of the the Federal Republic of Germany in the cabinets Schröder I and Schröder II

The June 27th 2006, in front of the deputies of its party, it announces that it will give up with the re-entry of September its mandate of green Député to the Bundestag and that it will leave the political life definitively.

At the end of 2006, it accepts a post of professor with the Université of Princeton close to New York. The diplomacy of international crisis is the subject of its courses.

Striking facts

When he was elected appointed at the Bundestag, he entered the hemicycle as a Jean and tennis shoe to affirm the style different from the Greens. Become Foreign Minister, it adopted nevertheless the three-piece suit, although it declared before that it did not want to yield with this kind of suitabilities.

It was also of many years the most popular politician of Germany.

In 2000, with the Humboldt University of Berlin, Mr. Fischer calls with the revival of the European Union and the adoption of a Constitution thanks to an avant-garde of an European Federation to come. After the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, it helps with the rebuilding with the organization of the Conférence of Petersberg to the end of the year 2001. In 2003, one then guessed it interested by the post of Foreign Minister of the EU. With the conference on the safety of Munich, he disapproved the American intervention in Iraq while launching in English with Donald Rumsfeld: ( I am not convinced. ).

Nevertheless, with its participation in the government, it broke with a dogmatic pacifism. He convinced the Verts rows to vote German engagement to bombard the Yugoslavia in 1999, as well as the sending of troops to the Kosovo. He declared on this subject: " for the first time in this century, we are good côté".

After the departure of Schröder (which assumes the chairmanship of the Gazprom group), it is a good part of the generation of the soixante-huitards which disappears from the political scene. Thanks to them, it is all the process of standardization of Germany which succeeded for finally closing the bracket of the generation of the war. There remains still the question of the reform of the Safety advice, where Germany within G4 (which joins together also Brazil, India and Japan) claims a station of permanent member.

In connection with the red-green coalition, Fischer declared in 2005: The chapter red-green, written by my generation, is irrevocably closed. The following chapter will be written by young people, less than forty years.

A final retirement?

July 20th, 2006, the European Greens proposed that Fischer is mediator in the conflict with the the Middle East: it was already thanks to him that in 2004 an prisoner exchange between Israel and Hezbollah could have been done. Questioned on this idea by the weekly magazine Die Zeit, Fischer evokes that " all should be done that is humanly possible to limit the conflict. However, after the bombardment of Haïfa, Israel will not accept a simple return to the status quo in Liban". If it remained in good term both with Israel and with the Palestinian authority, in this maintenance it expressed before all its solidarity with Israel: " Israel had also left Lebanon, but the Lebanese government neglected to disarm Hezbollah."

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