Franz Untersteller
Member of the State Parliament



Minister of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy
Sector Baden-Wuerttemberg







Curriculum vitae

Born on 4 April 1957 in Ensheim (Saarland); Catholic and married; two children, ages 21 and 24


Education and career

1977		Secondary school: commercial high school in Saarbrücken
1978		Degree programme at Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Department of Landscape Planning. Degree (Dipl. Ing.) received in 1982
1981		Employee at the Öko-Institut (Institute for Applied Ecology)
1982		Research fellowship from the Carl Duisberg Society. Participation in a project of the Colombian Environment Ministry in the Cauca region
1983-2006		Adviser on environmental and energy policy for the Green Parliamentary Group in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament
since 2006		Member of the Green Parliamentary Group in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament
2006-2011		Deputy chairman of the Green Parliamentary Group in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament
Since May 2011		Minister of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector, Baden-Württemberg

In addition

1998/99		Lecturer at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences
2003-2011		Board member, Öko-Institut e.V

                     

Memberships

Member of the Green Party since 1983
Öko-Institut e.V.: Unpaid member of the board from 2003 to March 2011 
Plan International e.V.: Sponsorship in Ecuador for the last 15 years
Baden-Württemberg Foundation for Development Cooperation (SEZ): Member of the board
Heinrich Böll Foundation
Europa-Union Deutschland (EUD), Baden-Württemberg state association