The Greens have made further personnel decisions for the government team in the upcoming traffic light coalition, as the FAZ learned from the party.

As with the selection of ministers, the decisions are due to the expertise of the MPs, but also to the balance of power between Realos and the left wing of the Greens.

The party leader and foreign minister-designate Annalena Baerbock has chosen two state ministers and one state minister in the Foreign Office to represent them at international meetings.

Markus Wehner

Political correspondent in Berlin.

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Defense politician Tobias Lindner, who, like Baerbock, belongs to the Realo camp, becomes Minister of State.

Katja Keul, who has also dealt with defense policy, belongs to the left wing.

Keul left the Green Party in 1999 because of the Kosovo War, but rejoined in 2006.

With its naming, Baerbock follows a green tradition: In 1998, the green foreign minister Joschka Fischer also appointed the development politician Ludger Vollmer from the left wing of the party as minister of state to his ministry.

The Hessian MP Anna Lührmann will become the further Minister of State in the Foreign Office.

From 2002 to 2009, she was the youngest member of the Bundestag at the time, and she has now returned to the Bundestag.

Michael Kellner becomes Parliamentary State Secretary

The foreign politician Franziska Brantner, who was actually acted as Minister of State for the Foreign Office, will, however, become Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, which is headed by the Green Party leader and Vice Chancellor-designate Robert Habeck. Michael Kellner, Political Director of the Greens since 2013, will also be Parliamentary State Secretary in Habeck's house. While Brantner, like Habeck, is one of the Realos, the waiter, who grew up in Gera, is part of the left wing. In addition to Brantner and Kellner, the air conditioning specialist and previous parliamentary deputy Oliver Krischer will support the minister as Parliamentary State Secretary.

In the Ministry of Agriculture, which is to be headed by Cem Özdemir, the MPs Manuela Rottmann and Ophelia Nick are designated as Parliamentary State Secretaries.

Rottmann, who comes from Bavaria, was a full-time environmental officer in the city of Frankfurt from 2006 to 2012.

Nick, who holds a doctorate in veterinary medicine, only entered the Bundestag with the election in September.

In the Family Ministry, the MP Ekin Deligöz is to support the designated Minister Anne Spiegel, who is moving to Berlin from the Mainz traffic light government.

The family politician Deligöz has been a member of the Bundestag since 1998.

A year earlier, the Alevi, who came to Germany from Turkey with her parents as a child, had become a German citizen.

Social politician Sven Lehmann will also be Parliamentary State Secretary.

From 2010 to 2018, Lehmann, who won the direct mandate in the Cologne II constituency in the federal elections, was state chairman of the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia.

In the Ministry of the Environment, which is to be headed by Minister Steffi Lemke, the biologist and environmental politician Bettina Hoffmann and the previous spokesman for building policy Christian Kühn will work as parliamentary state secretaries.