Alliance 90/The Greens Baden-Württemberg is one of the state associations of the German Green Party in Baden-Württemberg. With over 22,000 members, it is the third largest Green Party association in Germany, after North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria.
, the parliamentary group is the largest in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament with 57 seats and has provided the state's minister-president since 2011.
History
The Green Party of Baden-Württemberg was founded on 30 September 1979 in Sindelfingen, emerging from various citizens’ movements, especially the strong anti-nuclear protests around the planned Wyhl nuclear power plant. In 1980 the party entered the state parliament for the first time with 5.3%, marking the first time Greens won seats in a parliament of a German non-city state.
Throughout the 1980s the party was shaped by internal debates between its fundamentalist and pragmatic wings, with leading figures such as Winfried Kretschmann and Fritz Kuhn strengthening the realist camp over time. By the end of the decade, the pragmatists had largely prevailed.
The Greens steadily increased their influence at the municipal level and achieved notable successes in the 1990s, including 12.1% in the 1996 state election. The party played a major role in the protests against the Stuttgart 21 rail project and secured 24.2% in the 2011 state election. On 12 May 2011, Winfried Kretschmann became the first Green minister-president in Germany, leading a Green–Red government. Since 2016 the Greens have been the strongest party in the state, achieving 32.6% in the 2021 election.
Several cities in Baden-Württemberg have been governed by Green mayors, including Freiburg, Konstanz, Tübingen and Stuttgart.
Cem Özdemir was the party's top candidate for the 2026 state election, at which the Greens slightly lowered their seat and vote shares but nonetheless finished first. Özdemir became Baden-Württemberg's next minister-president, and the first one of Turkish descent in any state.https://www.dw.com/en/german-state-election-baden-wuerttemberg-cem-ozdemir-turkey-roots/a-76252684
Chairpersons PeriodSpokespersons / ChairpersonsMarch 1991 – July 1992Dagmar Dehmer and Fritz KuhnJuly 1992 – April 1993Dagmar Dehmer and Winfried HermannMay 1993 – April 1997Barbara Graf and Winfried HermannApril 1997 – April 1999Monika Schnaitmann and Reinhard BütikoferApril 1999 – June 2001Monika Schnaitmann and Andreas BraunJune 2001 – June 2003Renate Thon and Andreas BraunJune 2003 – December 2005Sylvia Kotting-Uhl and Andreas BraunDecember 2005 – November 2006Petra Selg and Andreas BraunNovember 2006 – November 2009Petra Selg and Daniel MouratidisNovember 2009 – October 2011Silke Krebs and Christian KühnOctober 2011 – November 2013Thekla Walker and Christian KühnNovember 2013 – November 2016Thekla Walker and Oliver HildenbrandNovember 2016 – December 2021Sandra Detzer and Oliver Hildenbrandsince December 2021Lena Schwelling and Pascal Haggenmüller
Election results Results of state electionsYearVote shareSeats19805.3%619848.0%919887.9%1019929.5%13199612.1%1920017.7%10200611.7%17201124.2%36201630.3%47202132.6%58202630.2%56
References
External links
Official website