Joschka Fischer’s CV is anything but flawless. He dropped out of school and an apprenticeship as a photographer, preferring instead to become active in the student movement of 1968. He was interested in social politics and as a guest student he sat in lectures by Adorno, Habermas and Negt or read Marx, Mao and Hegel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joschka Fischer – From squatter to foreign minister<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Joschka Fischer squatted houses in Frankfurt am Main at the end of the 1960s and later became a member of the Green Party. He is the one who, like most Greens at the time, appeared in the Bundestag without a haircut and in sneakers and took the oath of office as Hessian Environment Minister in ankle-high white sneakers. He experienced the grueling RAF period in Germany and became Vice Chancellor and German Foreign Minister under Chancellor Gerhard Schr\u00f6der, an office that hardly anyone would have thought him capable of holding at the beginning of his political career. But from 1998 to 2005, he proved his diplomatic skills and represented the Federal Republic of Germany abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Skilled rhetorician, popular politician<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2005, Joschka Fischer retired from the official political stage and returned to the public eye in 2007 as a founding member and board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and board member of the International Crisis Group. He is also a visiting professor at Princeton University in the USA. Joschka Fischer is still one of Germany’s most popular politicians. As a skilled rhetorician, he is always a welcome guest on German and international stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n