Simone Peter
Simone Peter 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.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 and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria – and the Free Democratic Party 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.Other activities
- ZDF, Member of the Television Board Arte, Member of the Programme Advisory Board
- German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation
- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, Member
- German United Services Trade Union, 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.