Joschka Fischer

Joschka Fischer
Fischer in 2014
Vice Chancellor of Germany
In office 27 October 1998 – 22 November 2005
President	Roman Herzog Johannes Rau Horst Köhler
Chancellor	Gerhard Schröder
Preceded by	Klaus Kinkel
Succeeded by	Franz Müntefering
Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 27 October 1998 – 22 November 2005
Chancellor	Gerhard Schröder
Preceded by	Klaus Kinkel
Succeeded by	Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Member of the Bundestag for Hesse
In office 16 October 1994 – 1 September 2006
Constituency	Alliance 90/The Greens List
In office 6 March 1983 – 31 March 1985
Preceded by	The Greens List
Deputy Minister President of Hesse
In office 5 April 1991 – 5 October 1994
Prime Minister	Hans Eichel
Preceded by	Wolfgang Gerhardt
Succeeded by	Rupert von Plottnitz
Hessian Minister of Environment and Energy
In office 12 December 1985 – 9 February 1987
Prime Minister	Holger Börner
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Armin Clauss (Acting)
In office 5 April 1991 – 5 October 1994
Prime Minister	Hans Eichel
Preceded by	Karlheinz Weimar
Succeeded by	Rupert von Plottnitz
Hessian Minister of Federal Affairs
In office 5 April 1991 – 5 October 1994
Prime Minister	Hans Eichel
Preceded by	Wolfgang Gerhardt (Agent of Federal Affairs)
Succeeded by	Rupert von Plottnitz
Personal details
Born	Joseph Martin Fischer (1948-04-12) 12 April 1948 (age 76) Gerabronn, Germany
Political party	Alliance 90/The Greens
Spouses	Edeltraud Seifert ​ ​ (m. 1967; div. 1984)​ Inge Peusquens ​ ​ (m. 1984; div. 1987)​ Claudia Bohm ​ ​ (m. 1987; div. 1998)​ Nicola Leske ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2003)​ Minu Barati ​ ​ (m. 2005)​
Children	2

Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer (born 12 April 1948) is a German retired politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. He served as the foreign minister and as the vice chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. Fischer has been a leading figure in the German Greens since the 1970s, and according to opinion polls,^[1] he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the Schröder government's duration. Following the September 2005 election, in which the Schröder government was defeated, he left office on 22 November 2005. In September 2010, he supported the creation of the Spinelli Group, a Europarliamentarian initiative founded with a view to reinvigorate efforts to federalise the European Union.