Fritz Kuhn

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This article is about the Green Party politician. For the leader of the German-American Bund, see Fritz Julius Kuhn.

Fritz Kuhn

Fritz Kuhn (born June 29, 1955) is a German politician. He was co-chairman of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, the German Green Party, from June 2000 to December 2002.

He was born in Bad Mergentheim (Baden-Württemberg) and grew up in Memmingen (Bayern). In 1974 he finished the high school in Memmingen with Abitur, and studied German and philosophy in München and Tübingen. In 1980 he got the Master's degree with focus on Linguistics in Tübingen.

He was one of the founding members of the German Green Party in 1980, and was member of the parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 1984 to 1988 and again from 1992 to 2000.

In 1989 he changed to become professor of communication at the Merz-Akademie in Stuttgart.

When he was elected chairman of the party in 2000 he had to quit his membership of the parliament due to the policy of his party that no one may hold a party office and a public office at the same time.

In the 2002 election for the German Bundestag, he won a seat, and as the party failed to allow an exception on this policy, he quit the position of chairman to focus on the work in parliament. His successor as chairman is Reinhard Bütikofer.

Fritz Kuhn is married to Waltraud Ulshöfer, and has two sons.