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Katrin Göring-Eckardt

カトリン・ゲーリング＝エッカルト　/　かとりん・げーりんぐ＝えっかると

Politician from Germany

May 3, 1966 (age 60)　・　Friedrichroda, Thuringia, Germany

Thuringia
politician
theologian
environmentalist

My Take

What draws me to Goring-Eckardt is the long arc of her conviction. Cutting her political teeth in late-1980s East Germany, then sitting in the Bundestag continuously since 1998, signals a stamina that flashier careers rarely match. I find the theology-to-environmentalism path quietly coherent: both are ultimately about stewardship and what we owe future generations. She is not the kind of politician who trends, and I respect that. Endurance over spectacle is, to me, the more honest measure of a public life. I would trust her precisely because she keeps showing up when the cameras have moved on elsewhere entirely.

Overview

Katrin Dagmar Göring-Eckardt (née Eckardt; 3 May 1966) is a German politician of the German Green Party (officially known as Alliance 90/The Greens). Starting her political activity in the now-former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the late 1980s, she has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Katrin Göring-Eckardt
Name (Japanese): カトリン・ゲーリング＝エッカルト
Reading: かとりん・げーりんぐ＝えっかると
Born: May 3, 1966 (age 60)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Taurus / Horse
Origin: Friedrichroda, Thuringia, Germany
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: politician / theologian / environmentalist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Leipzig University

Awards & achievements

2010 Wilhelm Leuschner Medal

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

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