Joshka fischer
Joschka Fischer or Joseph Martin Fischer (Gerabronn, Baden-Württemberg, April 12, 1948) is a German politician from the Alianza 90/Los Verdes party. After a rebellious youth, he evolved to occupy between 1998 and 2005 the positions of Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany during the government of Gerhard Schröder.
Biography
Joschka Fischer was born in Gerabronn, a town then belonging to Württemberg-Baden, as the third son of butcher Joszef Fischer. His parents, as Germans from Hungary, had to leave their residence in the German village of Wudigeß (Hungarian for Budakeszi, a municipality near the Hungarian city of Budapest, where the family had lived for several generations) in 1946, after it was occupied. by the Soviet Union and ethnic Germans were persecuted and expelled by the new authorities.[citation needed] He did not finish high school and joined the German protest movement. 1968, he moved to Frankfurt am Main, one of the centers of the German '68 movement. There he became friends and shared a flat with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, while he read extensively, completing his self-taught training.
He was jailed for six weeks on charges of "resisting the state," after taking part in one of the anti-Vietnam war protests in Frankfurt am Main.
In 1971 he got a job at an Opel factory, being fired after half a year for his union involvement and his attempts to win the factory workers for the "Revolution". In 1973 he was photographed beating a policeman.In 1976 he became a taxi driver, although he also worked other odd jobs as a translator, as a bookstore clerk and as a supporting actor in two films. On May 14, 1976, after participating in a demonstration for the death of Ulrike Meinhof that ended in violent confrontations in which two policemen were injured, Fischer was arrested, although he only remained in prison for two days.
According to his own statements, it was the events related to the kidnapping and murder of the president of the businessmen's association that led him to a "loss of illusions" and to stay away from his radical political ideas.
He has been married five times. The longest marriage was the first, which lasted from 1967 to 1984, while the second, from which their two children were born, lasted three, from 1984 to 1987, the same as the third (between 1996 and 1999) and the fourth (from 1999 to 2003). In October 2005 he married twenty-nine-year-old Iranian-German film producer Minu Barati, who had a son from a previous relationship.
Political career
In 1982, Fischer joined the newly founded Green Party, where along with Daniel Cohn-Bendit he pushed a pragmatic program called "realist" in the face of "ecofundamentalist" from another wing of the party. In 1983 he was elected to the German Parliament (Bundestag ), where he was part of the first Green parliamentary group and stood out for his eloquent, but also aggressive rhetorical style.
On December 12, 1985, when the first "rojiverde" between the Greens and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the federal state of Hesse, Fischer became Hesse's Minister of the Environment and Energy. There, he achieved some fame for being the first Green minister in German history and for take the oath of office in sneakers.
After the red-green coalition broke up in 1987, Fischer took over as spokesman for his parliamentary group in the Hesse Landtag parliament. Between 1991 and 1994 he was Minister of the Environment again when the coalition between SPD and Greens was reissued.
In 1994, Fischer abandoned Hessian politics when he was re-elected to the Bundestag, where he became spokesman for the Green parliamentary group.
Gerhard Schröder government
Following the victory of the SPD and the Greens in the 1998 elections, he agreed to the first Red and Green coalition at federal level with the SPD of Gerhard Schröder, who was sworn in as Federal Chancellor. On October 27, 1998, Fischer was appointed Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs and Federal Vice Chancellor.
As such, Fischer defended German involvement in the 1999 Kosovo War, arguing that genocide against the Kosovars had to be avoided, drawing parallels between the government of Slobodan Milošević and that of German National Socialism. In an interview with the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung she stated: “I have not only learned: never again war. I've also learned: Never again Auschwitz.” Although this position earned her criticism from part of the peace movement, it was eventually adopted by her party as well.
In 2002, Fischer took a position against US plans to invade Iraq. This increased Fischer's popularity, which for several years held him at the top of popularity polls for politicians. In addition, it allowed Los Verdes to reap the best electoral results in its history in the 2002 general elections, for which the red-green government was renewed.
In 2005, Fischer was at the center of the so-called "visa issue," when he was accused by several Conservative politicians of having neglected checks on visa regulations, which would have led to the entry into Germany of thousands of illegal Ukrainian immigrants with false identities. A committee of Parliament was established to examine the case where Fischer had to testify. His statements and those of other senior officials were shown live on German public television, a first in German parliamentary history. In the presentation before the committee, which lasted about 12 hours, Fischer admitted his political responsibility, but criticized the "tremendous scandal and propaganda" that had been made. of politicians from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and rejected demands to resign as foreign minister. Although the declaration was considered a success for Fischer, the "visa issue" affected his popularity, which from this moment no longer reached the previous heights. Finally, the committee closed the case without conclusions because of the early general elections of September 2005.
In these elections, the slight decrease in the percentage of votes suffered by the Greens and the heavy losses of the SPD prevented the continuation of the red-green coalition. Therefore, a great coalition was formed between the SPD and the conservatives (CDU and CSU), leaving Los Verdes, and Fischer, out of the Government.
Fischer went on to explain that, in order to foster a generational change, she would no longer run for spokesperson for the Green parliamentary group or for other senior positions within the party.[citation needed] On October 22, 2005, he finished his term as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor. On September 1, 2006, Fischer finally handed in his act of deputy and left active politics.
After the political career
After the end of his political career, Fischer was invited by the prestigious Princeton University in the United States to take up a visiting professor position (visiting professor) in International Political Economy, lecturing on "diplomacy in international crises". In 2007, Fischer founded a political consulting company called Joschka Fischer Consulting. In addition, he is a founding member of the think tank European Council on Foreign Relations, along with other characters such as Martti Ahtisaari, Emma Bonino or George Soros. In October 2007, Fischer published his autobiography under the title Die rot-grünen Jahre (& # 34; The Red-Green Years & # 34;).
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He was sometimes considered "the most popular politician in the country" and possible successor to Angela Merkel as Chancellor, and remained popular with the German media, including the right-wing press. Since retiring from politics, Fischer has profited from the address book he filled for multinationals. his years in power. His & # 34; consulting firm & # 34;, Joschka Fischer & amp; Co (the & # 34; Co & # 34; designates his associate Dietmar Huber, spokesman for the Green group in the Bundestag from 1995 to 2004) has BMW, Siemens and REWE as clients. In addition, for a year he has been in charge of promoting the gas pipeline project of the European consortium Nabucco, especially among the leaders of Turkmenistan, Iraq and Turkey. He also works for The Albright Group LLC to promote "dialogue"; between investors and governments. He refuses to publicly declare the amount of money he earns from his consulting work, saying: "I report to the treasury." As you can see, this is the advantage of my last transformation". It is said that his remuneration is in the millions of euros.
Awards
In May 2002, the University of Haifa awarded him an honorary doctorate. On May 4, 2004, he was awarded the Gottlieb-Duttweiler Prize in Rüschlikon (Switzerland). In May 2005 he obtained the highest distinction of the Central Council of Jews in Germany ( Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland ), the Leo Baeck award, for his services as an intermediary in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis from the Near East. On May 20, 2006, he was awarded an honoris causa doctorate from Tel Aviv University.
Essays
- The Return of History (2006). ISBN 84-670-2133-0.
- Risiko Deutschland
- Für einen neuen Gesellschaftsvertrag
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