Simone Peter

Simone Mary Peter ( born December 3, 1965 in Quierschied ) is a German politician and, since October 2013, National Chairman of the party Alliance 90/The Greens. From 2009 to 2012 she was Minister for the Environment, Energy and Transport of the Saarland.

Life

Education and work

Peter Simone is the daughter of Peter Brunhilde. She grew up in Dillingen / Saar, made at the local Albert Schweitzer -Gymnasium in 1985, the High School and studied in Saarbrücken Microbiology. In this subject, it was also about PhD The role of heterotrophic bacterioplankton and planktonic autotrophic nitrification in the oxygen budget of the Saar and Moselle.

From 2001 to 2004, Peter was a researcher and editor in chief of the magazine " solar age - politics, culture and economics of renewable energy" at Euro Solar. Then they built the Renewable Energy Agency in Berlin, and was its director until 2006. From 2006 to 2009 she worked as a project manager of the agency.

Policy

From 1999 to 2000, Peter Energy Spokesperson of the national executive of Alliance 90/The Greens Saarland. 2003 to 2004 she was the speaker of the Federal Working Group on Energy of Alliance 90/The Greens.

November 10, 2009, she was the country I Minister of Environment, Energy and Transport in the Cabinet Mueller III and the Cabinet Kramp - carts Bauer. After the failure of the so-called Jamaica coalition she received her certificate of release on 18 January 2012.

In the state elections in Saarland in 2012, she managed a top candidate of their party a place in the Saarland state parliament. Together with her party colleague Hubert Ulrich she made there a two- fraction, the Deputy Group Chairman and Managing Director parliamentary she was.

On September 26, 2013, it announced to bid for the party presidency of the Greens. The German delegate conference of the Greens they voted on October 19, 2013 next to Cem Özdemir, with 75.9 percent of the votes to 13 percent abstentions to the party chairman. After the election, Peter resigned her seat in Parliament; for she moved Klaus Kessler after.

Others commitment

Peter was 2000-2009 Board spokeswoman for the association energy transition Saarland eV She is a member of BUND, NABU and Euro Solar.

Private

Simone Peter is married, has a son and lives in Saarbrücken. It is non-denominational.