About Joschka Fischer
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer is a German former politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party. 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.
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Awards & Honors
Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal
German Leo Baeck Award
Medal for outstanding service to Bavaria in a united Europe
Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize
Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class
honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University
honorary doctorate of Haifa University
Order of Freedom
