Biography
Franz Unterseller is the Minister for the Environment, Climate, and Energy of the State of Baden-Wurttemberg. He also currently serves as a Member of the Board of the Heinrich Boell Foundation. Franz Untersteller is also on the board of various institutes and associations including Eco-Institute e.V., the Association of Friends of Wilhelma e.V., Plan International, and an honorary board member of TTF Neckarhausen Active Players Association.
From 2006-2011, Franz Untersteller served as deputy leader of the Green Party’s parliamentary group in the state parliament of Baden-Wurttemberg. He had previously served as parliamentary advisor to the Green Party in the state parliament on environmental and energy policy (1983-2006). In 1982, he served as a Fellow of the Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft in Colombia, working on a project in cooperation with the Colombian environmental ministry.
Franz Untersteller graduated from the University of Applied Sciences in Nurtingen in 1982 with a specialization in Landscape Planning. He served as a lecturer at the Fachhochschule Nurtingen from 1998-1999. He has been a member of the Green Party since 1983. He was born in Ensheim in 1957 and is married with two children.
