Member of The Parliament of Germany
Fritz Kuhn has served as a member of the Bundestag since 2002, between 2005 and 2009 also as one of the two leaders of the Green parliamentary party there (together with Renate Künast), since 2009 as deputy leader. In the Bundestag, he specialized in the fields of the economy (fighting for “a green market economy” ) and employment, and foreign policy in recent years.
In the election campaign of 2005 Kuhn was the campaign manager of Alliance ‘90/The Greens.
He is a member of the board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, a political foundation close to the Green Party.
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