Joschka fischer biography

Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer (born 12 April ) was Germanforeign minister and Vice Chancellor in the government of Gerhard Schröder from to He was a leading figure in the German Green Party and according to opinion polls [1]^{[permanent dead link]}, he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the government's duration.

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He left office on 22 November

Early life

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Fischer was born in Gerabronn in Baden-Württemberg. His parents were Germans from Hungary. His nickname Joschka is from Jóska, which is the Hungarian nickname for Joseph (Hungarian: József). Fischer dropped out of high school in , and started working for a photographer which he quit in

In he became active in the German student movement and Left-wing politics.

Sixty years in the Life of Herr Fischer - The Berliner

Working in a left-wing bookstore in Frankfurt was when he started going to leftist university events as a guest student. He studied the works of Marx, Mao and Hegel and became a member of the Joschka Fischer, horoscope for birth date 12 April 1948, born ... FEGIM