…is one of the best-known German climate protection activists. She is the figurehead of the German Fridays for Future (FFF) movement. The US magazine “Time” recently listed her as one of the 100 rising personalities in the world.
Luisa Neubauer was born in Hamburg in 1996. She studies geography at the University of Göttingen and is a member of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and various non-governmental organizations dealing with the topics of sustainability and climate protection.
In 2020, Neubauer, together with other climate protection activists, successfully filed a constitutional complaint against the government’s climate protection law, which they considered too lax. In addition to organizing the student strikes, she mainly works for educational and motivational work.
Her book “Against the powerlessness: My grandmother, politics and I”, a joint work with her almost 90-year-old grandmother Dagmar Reemtsma, has just been published. With her decades of commitment to the environment and justice, she has become the great role model for the 26-year-old activist. The book is a plea for unshakable optimism that change can be achieved.
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