Cem Özdemir

Cem Özdemir is, to me, one of the more quietly significant political stories in modern Europe. The son of Turkish immigrants, born in Bad Urach, who rose through the Greens to become Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture and then Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg in 2026, he embodies a Germany still learning to see its own diversity as strength. I respect figures who turn a complicated identity into a bridge rather than a grievance, and Özdemir has done exactly that with real staying power.

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Name (English)

Cem Özdemir

Name (Japanese)

ジェム・オズデミル

Reading

じぇむ・おずでみる

Born

December 21, 1965 (age 60)

Origin

Bad Urach, Tübingen Government Region, Germany

Occupation

politician / environmentalist / social pedagogue / educator

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Snake

Awards & achievements

• 2013 Orden wider den tierischen Ernst
• 1996 Theodor Heuss Medal
• 2021 Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
• 2022 German Leo Baeck Award
• 2019 Ignatz Bubis Award

• Official sitehttps://www.oezdemir.de
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/cem.oezdemir/
• Xhttps://x.com/cem_oezdemir
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cem%20%C3%96zdemir
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%82%BA%E3%83%87%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12839

Tags

• Tübingen Government Region
• politician
• environmentalist
• social pedagogue

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.