Robert Habeck was Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action from 2021 to 2025. Before, he was federal chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens since 2018. From 2012 to 2018 he was Minister of the Energy Transition and Deputy Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein. Born in Lübeck, he studied philosophy, did his doctorate and was successful as a writer together with his wife. Then he went into politics.