Jürgen Trittin - Alles muss anders bleiben

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A political autobiography from the seventies to the present day: a political life in the Federal Republic of Germany

As a post-war child, Green politician Jürgen Trittin has been a witness and protagonist of Germany's political history since the early 1970s. As a student and squatter, he experienced the social-liberal years, helped build up the Greens during the Kohl government, was a state minister and paved the way for Green participation in the federal government in 1998 and again in 2021. He now takes stock along political milestones.

His autobiographical reflections are more than just personal and committed testimonies - they are a piece of contemporary history.

He talks about the early days of the Greens, his ministerial years in Lower Saxony and the first red-green federal government under Gerhard Schröder, the long years in opposition and finally the cross-party coalition with the SPD and FDP since 2021. At the heart of his book is the concept of a value-driven realpolitik that creates security through change. After half a century in politics, Jürgen Trittin has created an impressive portrait of Germany in an age of accelerated global change.

Jürgen Trittin devotes himself to the central themes of his political life. In each case, he takes a look at injustices: the injustice of excluding people from democracy. The injustice of wealth distribution. The injustice and suffering of wars. To the injustice of the climate crisis, which hits those who have caused it the least the hardest.

Jürgen Trittin, born in 1954, was a member of the Bundestag for Alliance 90/The Greens for 25 years before resigning his seat in January 2024. He was parliamentary group leader from 2009 to 2013 and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee from 2014 to 2024, most recently as his group's foreign policy spokesperson. He has been a member of the Green Party since 1980 and held the office of Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the first red-green coalition at federal level from 1998 to 2005. He has been committed to energy policy and global justice for decades.

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