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Tarek Al-Wazir | |
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 Al-Wazir in 2019 | |
| Deputy Minister-President of Hesse | |
| In office 18 January 2014 – 18 January 2024 | |
| Minister-President | Volker Bouffier Boris Rhein |
| Preceded by | Jörg-Uwe Hahn |
| Succeeded by | Kaweh Mansoori |
| Minister for Economics, Energy, Transport and Housing of Hesse | |
| In office 18 January 2014 – 18 January 2024 | |
| Minister-President | Volker Bouffier Boris Rhein |
| Preceded by | Florian Rentsch |
| Succeeded by | Kaweh Mansoori |
| Member of theBundestag forHesse | |
| Assumed office 25 March 2025 | |
| Constituency | The Greens Party List |
| Member of theLandtag of Hesse | |
| In office 28 October 2018 – 25 March 2025 | |
| Constituency | Offenbach |
| In office 19 February 1995 – 16 October 2017 | |
| Constituency | Offenbach |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1971-01-03)3 January 1971 (age 54) |
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| Political party | The Greens (since 1989) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Abdullah al-Wazir (great-uncle) |
| Alma mater | Goethe University Frankfurt |
Tarek Mohammed Al-Wazir (Arabic:طارق محمد الوزير; born 3 January 1971) is a German politician ofAlliance '90/The Greens who served as deputy to theHessian Minister-President, andHessian Minister of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development from 2014 to 2024. He is a member of theLandtag of Hesse and was co-chair of the Hessian Green Party.
Al-Wazir was born inOffenbach am Main, Hesse, the son of an upper-classYemeni father and a teacher.[1] He holds dual citizenship of Yemen and Germany. His parents divorced while he was a child, and he spent several years of his youth in the Yemeni capital (Sana'a) with his father, an experience he later described as very influential in his personal development.[2]
After hisAbitur in 1991, Al-Wazir studiedpolitical science in Frankfurt, where he earned adegree.
Al-Wazir is married to a Yemeni woman, with whom he has two sons. They also split time between Germany and Yemen.[3]
Al-Wazir's surname has been anaptronym since he assumed ministerial office in 2014, asالوزير "al-wazīr" is Arabic for "the government minister."[4]
Al-Wazir joined the German Green Party in 1989, and has been a member ever since. From 1992 to 1994 he was chair of the party's youth organisation (Green Youth) in Hesse. He has been a member of theLandtag since 1995 and served as co-chair of the Hessian Green Party (withKordula Schulz-Asche).
Al-Wazir was the leader of the Greens during theHesse state election of 2008, and as such was the Green candidate for the position ofMinister-President of Hesse. His party gained 7.5% of the votes. In the aftermath of the election, he pushed hard for a "red–green–red" coalition consisting of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens, andDie Linke. This would have succeeded if not for an internal revolt by SPD members, forcing a new election in January 2009. In the2009 elections, he again stood as the Green candidate for minister-president. Surveys showed Al-Wazir to be Hesse's most popular politician at the time of the vote.[5] This time his party, also benefitting from popular anger at the SPD, increased its share to 13.7% of the vote, but the Greens remained out of government.
On 18 January 2014, after the2013 state elections, Al-Wazir became Deputy of the Hessian Minister-PresidentVolker Bouffier andHessian Minister of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development in a Black-Green coalition. Thus they formed only the third CDU-Green government in Germany's 16 federal states and the first in a big and socially diverse region.[6] As one of Hesse's representatives at theBundesrat, Al-Wazir was a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and the Committee on Transport.
Al-Wazir was a Green Party delegate to theFederal Convention for electing thepresident of Germany in 2017.[7]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 German elections, Al-Wazir was part of his party's delegation in the working group on mobility, co-chaired byAnke Rehlinger,Anton Hofreiter andOliver Luksic.[8]
In the2025 German federal election, he will be the Greendirect candidate inOffenbach and 4th place on thestate list.[9]
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