10 Facts About Antje Vollmer

Antje Vollmer became a member of the Bundestag in 1983 when the Greens first entered the West German parliament, before joining the party in 1985.

Antje Vollmer's parents ran a textile shop which they later had to close.

Antje Vollmer wrote a book related to the attempt to assassinate Hitler in the 20 July plot together with Lars-Broder Keil, Stauffenbergs Gefahrten: Das Schicksal der unbekannten Verschworer, which was published in 2013.

Antje Vollmer became a member of the Bundestag in 1983 on the ticket of the Green Party, although she was not a party member.

In November 1994, Antje Vollmer was the first politician of the Green Party to be elected into the Presidium of the Bundestag.

Antje Vollmer remained vice president of the Bundestag until the 2005 elections, at which point, she did not run for re-election.

In 2009, Antje Vollmer was awarded the Mercator Visiting Professorship for Political Management at the Universitat Essen-Duisburg's NRW School of Governance.

Antje Vollmer gave both seminars and lectures at the university.

Antje Vollmer was one of the first signatories of an open letter on the German position on the Russo-Ukrainian War, published in the magazine EMMA in April 2022, which called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to not supply Ukraine with offensive weapons during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and to do everything he could to end the war, in order to prevent an escalation of the conflict into "a third world war".

In 1979, Antje Vollmer gave birth to a son, Johann, whom she raised as a single mother.