1. Steffi Lemke attended a secondary school leaving certificate course at the Philanthropinum in Dessau.
11 Facts About Steffi Lemke
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Steffi Lemke was one of the co-founders of the Green Party in the GDR in 1989.
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From 2002 to 2013 Steffi Lemke worked as the Green Party's managing director, under the leadership of co-chairs Angelika Beer, Reinhard Butikofer, Claudia Roth and Cem Ozdemir.
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Since the 2013 elections, Steffi Lemke has been a member of the German Bundestag again, where she served as one of four whips of her parliamentary group under the leadership of the group's co-chairs Katrin Goring-Eckardt and Anton Hofreiter from 2013 until 2021.
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Steffi Lemke was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
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Steffi Lemke served as her parliamentary group's spokesperson for nature conservation policy.
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Steffi Lemke was briefly considered to join the government subsequently formed under the leadership of Minister-President Reiner Haseloff and become State Minister for the Environment and Agriculture; however, the position instead went to Claudia Dalbert.
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The negotiations led to the successful formation of a government, and Steffi Lemke took up the post of Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection in the new cabinet, serving under Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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In 2022, Steffi Lemke introduced draft legislation requiring manufacturers of products made with single-use plastic, such as bottles and cups, to pay an annual levy into a fund to help municipalities with the cost of clearing up litter.
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In October 2023, Steffi Lemke participated in the first joint cabinet retreat of the German and French governments in Hamburg, chaired by Scholz and President Emmanuel Macron.
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Steffi Lemke is divorced and lives with her current partner in Dessau.