Johannes Kretschmann

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Johannes Kretschmann
Member of the Bundestag
In office
27 January 2025 –February 2025
Personal details
Born (1978-07-14) 14 July 1978 (age 46)
Ostfildern, West Germany
Political party Alliance 90/The Greens
Parent Winfried Kretschmann (father)
Alma mater Free University of Berlin
Humboldt University of Berlin

Johannes Friedrich Kretschmann (born 14 July 1978) is a German politician from the Alliance 90/The Greens. He was briefly a member of the German Bundestag in 2025 .

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Life

Johannes Kretschmann grew up as the second of three children of the later Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann and his wife Gerlinde, first in Leinfelden-Echterdingen and from 1984 in the Sigmaringen district of Laiz  [ de ]. In 1998 he graduated from the Hohenzollern-Gymnasium Sigmaringen  [ de ]. From 1998 to 2009 he studied religious studies, Romanian studies and linguistics at the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. He graduated with a Magister Artium. From 2008 to 2010 he was a opening act at hart aber fair , then a moster at Tübingen and from 2011 to 2012 a pallbearer at a funeral home. From 2011 to 2019 he worked as an online editor  [ de ] for the Swiss online newspaper bluewin.ch. From February to May 2022, he worked as a Sachbearbeiter  [ de ] for Anja Reinalter, member of the Bundestag.

Kretschmann works as a freelance cultural worker. He is committed to preserving the dialect of Swabian German. He has been a volunteer dialect consultant to the Baden-Württemberg state government since 2019 and a member of the advisory board of the Center for Dialect at the Weingarten University of Education  [ de ] since 2020. He lives in Laiz  [ de ]. [1]

Kretschmann was initially Roman Catholic, but later left the church. [2]

Political career

Kretschmann built up a local group of the Green-Alternative Youth in Sigmaringen in 1994. In 1999 he joined the Greens. Since 2014 he has been a member of the district council of the Sigmaringen district, and since 2019 he has been chairman of the local Green parliamentary group. [3]

In the 2021 German federal election, Kretschmann ran in the Zollernalb – Sigmaringen constituency and was ranked 21st on the Green Party's state list. [4] On 27 January 2025, he replaced the MP Stephanie Aeffner in the Bundestag for the remaining few weeks of the legislative period after her death. [5] [6] He did not stand in the 2025 German federal election. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Uli Fricker (2023-05-03). "Johannes Kretschmann: In der Politik gescheitert – jetzt lehrt Kretschmann-Sohn Schwäbisch - Baden-Württemberg". stuttgarter-zeitung.de. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  2. ↑ "Sohn des Ministerpräsidenten: Johannes Kretschmann aus Kirche ausgetreten". stuttgarter-zeitung.de. 2021-05-22. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  3. ↑ Patrick Laabs (2024-06-10). "CDU scheitert denkbar knapp an der absoluten Mehrheit". schwaebische.de. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  4. ↑ Katharina Thoms (2021-07-08). "Bundestagskandidat Johannes Kretschmann - Grüner Wahlkampf im CDU-Stammland". deutschlandfunkkultur.de. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  5. ↑ Michael Hescheler (2025-01-17). "Kretschmann junior wird überraschend Bundestagsabgeordneter". schwaebische.de. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  6. ↑ Siegfried Volk (2025-01-17). "Sigmaringen: Für fünf Wochen in den Bundestag". suedkurier.de. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  7. ↑ "Kretschmanns Sohn wird kurz Bundestagsabgeordneter". sueddeutsche.de. 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
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