Franz Untersteller

Franz Untersteller (born 4 April 1957 in Ensheim, today a borough of Saarbrücken) is a German politician of the Green party. Since 2011 he has been Minister of the Environment, Climate and the Energy Sector of Baden-Württemberg in the Cabinets Kretschmann I and II.[1]

Franz Untersteller
Untersteller in 2015
Born (1957-04-04) April 4, 1957
Ensheim, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
NationalityGerman
Occupation
  • Philosopher
  • Author
Political partyGreen party
Spouse(s)Yes
Children2
WebsiteOfficial website (in German)

Biography

In 1977 Untersteller received his Abitur after having attended the commercial high school in Saarbrücken. Afterwards he studied Landscape Planning at the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Science and passed his Degree (Dipl. Ing.) in 1982.

From 1981 till 1983 Untersteller worked at the Öko-Institut (Institute for Applied Ecology), Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1982 he took part in a project of the Colombia Environment Ministry in the Cauca region, funded by a research fellowship from the Carl Duisberg Society. In 1983 he became consultant on environmental and energy policy for the Green Party's parliamentary group in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament.

In 2006 Untersteller was elected Member of the State Parliament and acted until 2011 as deputy chairman of the Green Party's parliamentary group. In May 2011 he was appointed State Minister of the Environment, Climate Protection and Energy Sector Baden-Württemberg.[1] As one of his state's representatives at the Bundesrat, he serves on the Committee on the Environment, Nature Protection and Reactor Safety. From 2014 and 2016, he was one of the members of Germany’s temporary National Commission on the Disposal of Radioactive Waste.[2]

As member of the government Untersteller also acts as member of the several supervisory board of supervised enterprises or trading companies like the e-mobil BW GmbH or the State Bank of Baden-Württemberg (L-Bank).[3]

Other activities

Regulatory agencies

Corporate boards
  • L-Bank, Member of the Supervisory Board[4]

Non-profit organizations

Personal life

Untersteller lives in Nürtingen. He is married and has two adult children.[1] He is an active player and member of the board of the table tennis club TTF Neckarhausen e.V.

References
  1. cv – Franz Untersteller MdL, um.baden-wuerttemberg.de
  2. Abschlussbericht der Kommission Lagerung hoch radioaktiver Abfallstoffe
  3. "Site of L-Bank". Archived from the original on 2016-08-27. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
  4. Supervisory Board Archived 2016-08-27 at the Wayback Machine L-Bank.
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