Joschka Fischer
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer (born 12 April 1948) is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. Fischer has been a leading figure in the West German Greens since the 1970s, and according to opinion polls, he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the government's duration. Following the September 2005 election, in which the Schröder government was defeated, he left office on November 22, 2005. In September 2010 he supported the creation of the Spinelli Group, a europarliamentarian initiative founded with a view to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the European Union.
Early life
Fischer was born in Gerabronn in Baden-Württemberg, the third child of a butcher, whose family had lived in Budakeszi, Hungary, for several generations. Fischer's family had to leave Hungary in 1946 after it was occupied by the Soviet Union, and ethnic Germans were persecuted and expelled by the authorities. His nickname Joschka is derived from the Hungarian Jóska, diminutive of Joseph (Hungarian József). He was brought up Catholic and served in his childhood as an altar boy in his parish in Oeffingen. Fischer dropped out of high school in 1965, and started an apprenticeship as a photographer, which he quit in 1966. Because Fischer never gained a school-leaving certificate, he never attended a university or a college. He neither did compulsory military service nor the alternative civilian service for conscientious objectors, because he failed his physical examination due to poor eyesight.
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- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
- Das Jahr 1998 und ein fast verspielter Wahlsieg
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