Karoline Linnert

Who is Karoline Linnert?

Karoline Linnert is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. Since 2007, she has served as Senator of Finance and Mayor of the city-state of Bremen. She's one of two people holding the title Mayor, the other being Jens Böhrnsen, the President of the Senate of Bremen.

Linnert studied psychology, graduating in 1988. She became a member of The Greens in 1980, and was the top candidate of her party in Bremen in the 2007 election. From 1991, she served as a member of the Parliament of Bremen, and was chair of the Green parliamentary group from 2000 to 2007. She served as chair of the Public Expenditures Committee from 2003 to 2007. Her party ented a coalition with the social democrats in 2007, and she became Senator of Finance and Mayor.