Oliver Krischer | |
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| Minister for the Environment, Nature Protection, and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Assumed office 29 June 2022 | |
| Minister-President | Hendrik Wüst |
| Preceded by | Andreas Pinkwart(Energy) |
| Parliamentary State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Action | |
| In office 8 December 2021 – 29 June 2022 Serving with | |
| Chancellor | Olaf Scholz |
| Minister | Robert Habeck |
| Preceded by | |
| Member of theBundestag forAachen I | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Rudolf Henke |
| Member of theBundestag forNorth Rhine-Westphalia | |
| In office 27 October 2009 – 26 October 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1969-07-26)26 July 1969 (age 56) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | RWTH Aachen |
| Website | https://www.oliver-krischer.eu/ |
Oliver Krischer (born 26 July 1969) is a German politician of theAlliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as State Minister for Environment, Nature Protection, and Transport in thegovernment ofMinister-President of North Rhine-WestphaliaHendrik Wüst since 2022.[1]
From 2021 to 2022, Krischer briefly served asParliamentary State Secretary in theFederal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in thecoalition government ofChancellorOlaf Scholz since 2021.[2] He was a member of theBundestag from 2009 to 2022.
Krischer was born inZülpich,West Germany. He grew up inHeimbach (Eifel; Germany). After the A-Levels and civilian service he studied biology atRWTH Aachen. From 1997 to 2002 he worked for Michaele Hustedt, a former member of the German Bundestag. From 2002 to 2009 he worked as scientific assistant for the Green parliamentary group inNorth Rhine-Westphalia in the thematic fields of energy, agriculture and land use regulation.
In 1989, Krischer joined theGreen Party. Since 1994 he is member of the Kreistag and became chairman of the parliamentary group in 1997. He became district chairman of his party in 2005 and was elected in theBezirksvorstand Mittelrhein in 2006. From 2001 to 2006 he served as chairman of the Biological Station in Düren.
In the2009 federal elections, Krischer was elected into the German Bundestag via his nomination on the Green ballot list.
In his first term between 2009 and 2013, Krischer was a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Technology and an alternate member of the Committee on the Environment, Conservation and Reactor Safety. He also served as his parliamentary group's spokesperson on energy and resource efficiency. In addition, he chaired its working group on energy and climate.
From2013 until 2021, Krischer served as vice chairman of the Green Party's parliamentary group under the leadership of co-chairsKatrin Göring-Eckardt andAnton Hofreiter; in this role, he was responsible for the topics, energy, environment, climate, reactor safety, animal protection, agriculture and transportation. He was a deputy member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy and the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Besides this he was the vice-chairman of the parliamentary inquiry into theVolkswagen emissions scandal (Dieselgate).
In the2021 German federal election, he was elected to a direct mandate inAachen I.
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the2021 federal elections, Krischer led his party's delegation in the working group on environmental policy; his co-chairs from the other parties areMatthias Miersch andLukas Köhler.[3]
In the negotiations to form acoalition government under the leadership ofMinister-President of North Rhine-WestphaliaHendrik Wüst following the2022 state elections, Krischer was part of his party’s delegation.[4][5]
Krischer currently lives inDüren with his wife and their two sons. In Berlin, he shared an apartment withKatja Dörner.[11]
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