17 Facts About Boris Palmer

Boris Erasmus Palmer was born on 28 May 1972 and is a German politician and former member of the Green Party.

Boris Palmer has been mayor of Tubingen since January 2007.

Boris Palmer's father, Helmut, dubbed Remstalrebell was a very well known and controversial figure and perennial candidate.

Boris Palmer graduated from high school at the Steiner School in Winterbach-Engelberg in 1992.

From 1993, Boris Palmer studied history and mathematics at the University of Tubingen and in Sydney.

Boris Palmer subsequently resigned from his Landtag mandate after taking office in January 2007.

In July 2009, Boris Palmer was criticized for recommending antizionist activist and Tubingen resident Felicia Langer for the Federal Cross of Merit.

Boris Palmer was a Green Party delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the president of Germany in 2010.

In November 2012, after Boris Palmer had been critical of child adoption by homosexual couples and criticism about him being not much of a team player, the central Green party council did not reelect him.

On 19 October 2014, Boris Palmer was reelected for another eight-year term.

Boris Palmer apparently wants to run for the Free Voters party in the local elections in 2024.

In December 2023, the party confirmed talks with Boris Palmer, who wanted to become active at the local level for the Free Voters faction in the district council Kreistag.

Boris Palmer initiated a project for a light rail through the old town of Tubingen.

Boris Palmer declared it the main part of his policy for a different traffic policy.

In late 2015, Boris Palmer was heavily criticized by other members of the Green Party, as well as by the party's youth organization, for his relatively right-wing positions on refugee immigration.

Various topics were queried in it, the question about Boris Palmer was only one.

In February 2022, Boris Palmer admitted to DLF that he had commissioned and paid for the survey at the time.