Robert Habeck

Robert Habeck (German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈhaːbɛk] ; born 2 September 1969) is a German writer and former politician (Alliance 90/The Greens) who served as Vice Chancellor of Germany, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and as a Member of the German Bundestag for Flensburg – Schleswig from 2021 to 2025. From 2018 to 2022, he also served as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongside Annalena Baerbock. For the 2021 German federal election, he was a member of the leading duo, alongside Baerbock, who ran for chancellor of Germany. Between 2009 and 2012, Habeck was a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein, where he was also the Greens' parliamentary leader. From 2012 to 2018 he served as the state's Deputy Minister-president and Minister for Energy Transition, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitization, and a member of the Bundesrat. Habeck was the Green's candidate for chancellor in the 2025 federal elections. Later in 2025, he resigned his Bundestag seat and retired from politics.