13 Facts About Ricarda Lang

Ricarda Lang was raised by a single mother, who was a social worker and worked at a women's shelter.

Ricarda Lang's father was the sculptor Eckhart Dietz, who died in 2019.

Ricarda Lang joined the Green Youth in 2012 at the age of 18.

From 2014 to 2015, Ricarda Lang was speaker for the Campus Greens, the Greens' student association.

Ricarda Lang was a member of the district executive of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Greens from 2015 to 2016.

Ricarda Lang stood in the 2019 European Parliament election in 25th place on the Greens list, but was not elected.

Ricarda Lang successfully ran for the Bundestag in the 2021 German federal election in tenth place on the Baden-Wurttemberg list.

Ricarda Lang became the first bisexual member of the Bundestag.

On 29 January 2022, Ricarda Lang was elected unopposed at chairwoman of the Greens, along with Omid Nouripour.

In early 2022, Ricarda Lang became one of the six subjects of an embezzlement investigation launched by the Berlin public prosecutor's office into the entire leadership board of the Green Party over the payment of so-called 'corona bonuses,' which had been paid in 2020 to all employees of the party's federal office and at the same time to its board.

Ricarda Lang is considered a representative of the left wing of the party.

Ricarda Lang is critical of individualist approaches to policy; for example, to tackle climate change, she opposes focusing on individual consumption and advocates phasing out coal and ending subsidies to environmentally damaging industries.

Ricarda Lang is bisexual, and became the first openly bisexual Bundestag member upon her election in 2021.