Joschka Fischer
Joschka Fischer is a German politician, environmentalist, and non-fiction writer born on April 12, 1948, in Gerabronn.
Fischer was educated at the Johannes Gutenberg School and went on to pursue roles extending well beyond electoral politics. Over the course of his career he has worked as a university teacher, a business consultant, a lobbyist, and an athletics competitor, reflecting a range of professional engagements that resist easy categorization. He is a citizen of Germany and conducts his public and written work in the German language.
Fischer has received a substantial number of honors and distinctions. Tel Aviv University and Haifa University each awarded him an honorary doctorate, recognizing his contributions at an international level. Among the decorations he has received are the Order of Freedom, the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana First Class, and the Medal for Outstanding Service to Bavaria in a United Europe. He was also awarded the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize, the German Leo Baeck Award, and the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal, the last of which is associated with Jewish-Christian dialogue and interfaith understanding.
His work as an environmentalist and non-fiction writer runs as a consistent thread through his public life alongside his political career. The breadth of his recognized roles — from university teaching to business consultancy to competitive athletics — points to a figure who has operated across institutional and professional boundaries throughout his adult life. The multiple honors connecting him to European, Israeli, and Baltic institutions underscore the international dimension of his engagement as a German public figure.
Quotes by Joschka Fischer
The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don’t see the person who is representing Europe.
I don’t believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It’s a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
Taking stock of ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.
Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, ‘diluted’ so to speak.
Let’s forget the reunification, let’s just shut up and don’t talk about that topic for the next 20 years.
Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age.
Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.
Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.