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Simone Peter (born 3 December 1965) is a German Alliance 90/The Greens politician. Between 2013 and 2018, she co-chaired the party along with Cem Özdemir.

Political career

Between 2009 and 2012, she was Saarland's State Minister for the Environment, Energy and Transport in the cabinet of former Minister-President Peter Müller (CDU).^[1]

Peter served as a Green Party delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017. In the unsuccessful negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Democrats – both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2017 national elections, Peter was part of the 14-member delegation of the Green Party.

Life after politics

Since February 2018, Peter has been serving as chairwoman of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE).^[2][3]

Other activities

• ZDF, Member of the Television Board
• Arte, Member of the Programme Advisory Board
• German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND)
• Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), Member
• German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member

Personal life

Peter is the daughter of SPD politician Brunhilde Peter, who served as State minister and vice Minister-President under Oskar Lafontaine. Raised in Dillingen, Peter studied microbiology at Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken and received a PhD.

After being editor-in-chief of Eurosolar, she was founding director of a state-supported communications agency promoting Renewable energies. Today, she is married and mother of one child and lives in Saarbrücken.^[4]

References

External links

• Profile of Simone Pater in the Saarland Landtag (in German)