Johannes Friedrich Kretschmann (born 14 July 1978) is a German politician from the Alliance 90/The Greens. He was briefly a member of the German Bundestag in 2025 .
Johannes Kretschmann | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| In office 27 January 2025 – March 2025 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 July 1978 Ostfildern, West Germany |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Parent | Winfried Kretschmann (father) |
| Alma mater | Free University of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin |
Life
editJohannes Kretschmann grew up as the second of three children of the later Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann and his wife Gerlinde, first in Leinfelden-Echterdingen and from 1984 in the Sigmaringen district of Laiz. In 1998 he graduated from the Hohenzollern-Gymnasium Sigmaringen. From 1998 to 2009 he studied religious studies, Romanian studies and linguistics at the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. He graduated with a Magister Artium. From 2008 to 2010 he was a opening act at hart aber fair, then a moster at Tübingen and from 2011 to 2012 a pallbearer at a funeral home. From 2011 to 2019 he worked as an online editor for the Swiss online newspaper bluewin.ch. From February to May 2022, he worked as a Sachbearbeiter for Anja Reinalter, member of the Bundestag.
Kretschmann works as a freelance cultural worker. He is committed to preserving the dialect of Swabian German. He has been a volunteer dialect consultant to the Baden-Württemberg state government since 2019 and a member of the advisory board of the Center for Dialect at the Weingarten University of Education since 2020. He lives in Laiz.[1]
Kretschmann was initially Roman Catholic, but later left the church.[2]
Political career
editKretschmann built up a local group of the Green-Alternative Youth in Sigmaringen in 1994. In 1999 he joined the Greens. Since 2014 he has been a member of the district council of the Sigmaringen district, and since 2019 he has been chairman of the local Green parliamentary group.[3]
In the 2021 German federal election, Kretschmann ran in the Zollernalb – Sigmaringen constituency and was ranked 21st on the Green Party's state list.[4] On 27 January 2025, he replaced the MP Stephanie Aeffner in the Bundestag for the remaining few weeks of the legislative period after her death.[5][6] He did not stand in the 2025 German federal election.[7]
Writings
edit- Antisemitismus und magisches Denken. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8288-2460-7.
- gemeinsam mit Johannes Berreth und Dennis Dreher: Neigschmeggd: Schwäbisch vegan. Gräfe und Unzer, München 2023, ISBN 978-3-8338-8844-1.
External links
edit- Biographie beim Deutschen Bundestag
- Website von Johannes Kretschmann
- Johannes Kretschmann on abgeordnetenwatch.de
- Literature by and about Johannes Kretschmann in the German National Library catalogue
- Works by and about Johannes Kretschmann in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library)
References
edit- ^ Uli Fricker (2023-05-03). "Johannes Kretschmann: In der Politik gescheitert – jetzt lehrt Kretschmann-Sohn Schwäbisch - Baden-Württemberg". stuttgarter-zeitung.de. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
- ^ "Sohn des Ministerpräsidenten: Johannes Kretschmann aus Kirche ausgetreten". stuttgarter-zeitung.de. 2021-05-22. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
- ^ Patrick Laabs (2024-06-10). "CDU scheitert denkbar knapp an der absoluten Mehrheit". schwaebische.de. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
- ^ Katharina Thoms (2021-07-08). "Bundestagskandidat Johannes Kretschmann - Grüner Wahlkampf im CDU-Stammland". deutschlandfunkkultur.de. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
- ^ Michael Hescheler (2025-01-17). "Kretschmann junior wird überraschend Bundestagsabgeordneter". schwaebische.de. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
- ^ Siegfried Volk (2025-01-17). "Sigmaringen: Für fünf Wochen in den Bundestag". suedkurier.de. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
- ^ "Kretschmanns Sohn wird kurz Bundestagsabgeordneter". sueddeutsche.de. 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2025-01-17.