Simone Peter

Simone Peter (born 3 December 1965) is a German Alliance 90/The Greens politician. Between 2013 and 2018, she co-chaired the party along with Cem Özdemir.

Simone Peter
Leader of Alliance 90/The Greens
In office
October 2013  January 2018
Serving with Cem Özdemir
Preceded byClaudia Roth
Succeeded byAnnalena Baerbock
Member of the Saarland State parliament
In office
March 2012  November 2013
Personal details
Born (1965-12-03) 3 December 1965
Quierschied, West Germany
Political partyAlliance '90/The Greens
SpouseAndreas Heiser
Children1
Alma materUniversity of Saarland
OccupationPolitician

Political career

Between 2009 and 2012, she was Saarland's State Minister for the Environment, Energy and Transport in the cabinet of former Minister-President Peter Müller (CDU).[1]

Peter served as a Green Party delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017. In the unsuccessful negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Democrats – both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2017 national elections, Peter was part of the 14-member delegation of the Green Party.

Life after politics

Since February 2018, Peter has been serving as chairwoman of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE).[2][3]

Other activities

Personal life

Peter is the daughter of SPD politician Brunhilde Peter, who served as State minister and vice Minister-President under Oskar Lafontaine. Raised in Dillingen, Peter studied microbiology at Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken and received a PhD.

After being editor-in-chief of Eurosolar, she was founding director of a state-supported communications agency promoting Renewable energies. Today, she is married and mother of one child and lives in Saarbrücken.[4]

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