Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer is a German retired politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. He served as the foreign minister and as the vice chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. Fischer has been a leading figure in the German Greens since the 1970s, and according to opinion polls, he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the Schröder government's duration. Following the September 2005 election, in which the Schröder government was defeated, he left office on 22 November 2005. In September 2010, he supported the creation of the Spinelli Group, a Europarliamentarian initiative founded with a view to reinvigorate efforts to federalise the European Union.
Fischer in 2014
Joschka Fischer on 17 February 1983
Fischer with Russian President Vladimir Putin on 13 February 2001
Fischer and Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon on 19 September 2001
Alliance 90/The Greens, often simply referred to as the Greens, is a green political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of The Greens and Alliance 90. The Greens had itself merged with the East German Green Party after German reunification in 1990.
A cycle rickshaw (velotaxi) in front of the German Bundestag in Berlin with the Alliance 90/The Greens livery for the 2005 federal election
Federal party convention in Oldenburg; Renate Künast speaking (2005)
Anti-nuclear protest near nuclear waste disposal centre at Gorleben in northern Germany, on 8 November 2008
Green supporters supporting Annalena Baerbock in 2021
