1. Anne Spiegel served as Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 8 December 2021; she announced her resignation on 11 April and was dismissed by the President on 25 April 2022.
In 2021, Spiegel served as Deputy Minister-President and Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Mobility, Energy and Forests in the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Anne Spiegel was a prominent youth leader in Germany during the 2000s.
Anne Spiegel was first elected to the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate in the 2011 state election, and re-elected in 2016.
Anne Spiegel was the lead candidate for the Greens in the 2021 Rhineland-Palatinate state election.
Anne Spiegel has Italian ancestry; among others, her maternal grandmother is from Sicily.
Anne Spiegel grew up in Speyer and Ludwigshafen, and attended the Albert Schweitzer elementary school, passing her Abitur in 2000 at the Heinrich-Boll-Gymnasium.
Anne Spiegel then studied politics, philosophy and psychology in Darmstadt, Mainz, Mannheim, and Salamanca until 2007.
Anne Spiegel then worked as a language teacher at Berlitz in Mainz, Mannheim, and Heidelberg from 2008 to 2010.
Anne Spiegel was a member of the board of the Green Youth of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1999 to 2002, including two years as board spokeswoman.
Anne Spiegel then served on the federal board of the Green Youth until 2004.
In 2005, Anne Spiegel became the first German youth delegate to the United Nations.
Anne Spiegel was third on the party list and was comfortably elected as one of the 18 Greens deputies, becoming deputy leader of the party's parliamentary group in the new Landtag.
Anne Spiegel served as spokesperson for women, integration, migration, and refugee policy.
From 2014 to 2016, Anne Spiegel served on the Speyer city council.
Anne Spiegel was again elected third on the party list.
Anne Spiegel resigned from the Landtag to join the cabinet and was succeeded by Pia Schellhammer.
Anne Spiegel became the first minister in Rhineland-Palatinate to take maternity leave, which she did in April 2018 to give birth to her fourth child.
Anne Spiegel brought the baby to a meeting of the Federal Council in October 2018.
In November 2018, Anne Spiegel represented the German federal government at the Women MPs Conference on the subject of "100 years of women's suffrage" in London.
The coalition government between the SPD, Greens, and FDP was renewed, and Anne Spiegel became Deputy Minister-President and Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Mobility, Energy and Forests.
Anne Spiegel was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.
Anne Spiegel was on vacation in France during the disaster.
Anne Spiegel had stated that she had attended a cabinet meeting in Rhineland-Palatinate during her vacation.
Up from March 2022, Anne Spiegel was heavily criticized because internal documents revealed that she was more concerned with making her ministry look good than with assuming responsibility for the disaster.