Luisa Neubauer is voting in the federal presidential election – more names are becoming public

The climate activist Luisa Neubauer is scheduled to vote on the new Federal President on January 30th. The Greens in Lower Saxony's state parliament announced that they would nominate the Hamburg native for the Federal Assembly, as well as the human rights activist Düzen Tekkal and the educational researcher Aladin El-Mafaalani.

“All three stand for attitude, social responsibility and the courage to get involved,” said Green Party co-parliamentary leader Anne Kura.

Neubauer said the next head of state will lead the most heated Germany in history and that the country's climate course will have a say in the fate of many generations. "There is so much at stake. It is an honor to be able to participate in this democratic election."

In addition to Neubauer, Tekkal and El-Mafaalani, the Green parliamentary group is proposing seven members of their party who are active in state and local politics for the Federal Assembly, including Deputy Prime Minister Julia Willie Hamburg and Hanover's Mayor Belit Onay.

The Federal Assembly will decide on Steinmeier's successor on January 30th. It is made up of the 630 members of the Bundestag and the same number of voters from the states.

In addition to politicians, other public figures can also be sent as electors. The Baden-Württemberg state parliament has also appointed its representatives to elect the next head of state. Former VfB footballer Cacau, entrepreneur Reinhold Würth, Pur singer Hartmut Engler and Nobel Prize winner Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard are allowed to take part in the decision about the successor to Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Claudemir Jerônimo Barreto, better known as Cacau, was proposed by the CDU. As a striker for VfB Stuttgart, he became German champion in 2007. He was a member of the national team from 2009 to 2012. He later worked as an integration officer for the German Football Association.

Reinhold Würth is also among the confirmed CDU candidates. The entrepreneur from Künzelsau turned the manufacturer of assembly and fastening materials named after him into a globally successful company.

Pur frontman Hartmut Engler, who was nominated by the Greens, is also there. In 2010 he received the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg and in 2026 the Federal Cross of Merit with Ribbon.

The developmental biologist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, who was also nominated by the Greens and has now been elected to the Federal Assembly, received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1995.

The Greens in Schleswig-Holstein, in turn, are sending best-selling author Caroline Wahl, as “Spiegel” reports.