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He was born on July 25, 1954 in Bremen. He earned an university degree in Social Economy in Göttingen and worked as journalist.
His political career started in 1982 as Secretary of the Alternative-Greens-Initiative List (AGIL) Group in the Göttingen City Council (until 1984). From 1984 to 1985 he worked as Press Spokesman for the Greens Group in the Lower Saxony State Assembly, which he joined in 1985 as member of the state parliament.
From 1990 to 1994 Jürgen Trittin was the Lower Saxony Minister for Federal and European Affairs and the Head of the Lower Saxony State Mission to the Federal Government in a coalition cabinet with the SPD, led by then minister president of Lower Saxony Gerhard SchröderThis article discusses the Social Democratic German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder . For the 1950s/ 1960s CDU politician with the same name, see Gerhard Schroder (CDU). Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schroder [gehat rod] (born April 7, 1944), a German politician, has be (SPD).
After Schröder won the state elections in 1994, giving his SPD a majority, Trittin worked as Member of the Lower Saxony State Assembly and as Deputy Chairman of the Alliance 90/The Greens Group in that parliament. In 1994 he became Spokesman of the national Green Party.
In 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting, Trittin was elected as Member of the federal parliament ( BundestagThe Bundestag ("Federal Diet") is the parliament of Germany. It was established with West Germany's constitution of 1949 (the Grundgesetz) and is the successor of the earlier Reichstag. Originally convened in Bonn in 1949, since 1999, the Bundestag has as). At the same time he discontinued his work as Spokesman, because party statutes don't allow the combination of being a member of parliament and being a member of the party executive.
In the federal red-green coaltion cabinet, he was declared Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, which he is since October 1998.
Trittin is single and father to one daughter.
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