Franz Untersteller
Minister for the Environment Climate Protection and Energy
Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT
Experiences of leading regions particularly committed to fighting climate change and their approach to face the main challenges in their territories.
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT
Experiences of leading regions particularly committed to fighting climate change and their approach to face the main challenges in their territories.
Franz Untersteller, Minister of the Environment, Climate Protection and Energy Sector, was born on 4 April 1957 in Saarland. After graduating from the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Science with a degree in Landscape Planning in 1982 he initially worked for the Öko-Institut (Institute for Applied Ecology). From 1983 he was parliamentary advisor to the Green Parliamentary Group in the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament before being elected to the Parliament himself in 2006. From 2006 to 2011 he also acted as deputy chairman of the Green Parliamentary Group.
Franz Untersteller has been Minister of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector in Baden-Württemberg since 2011.