Daniel Cohn-Bendit
German/French journalist and politician
Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (French: [ˌdanjˈɛl(ə) ˈmaʁk ˈkɔ̃n ˌbɛ̃nˈdi]; German: [ˈdaːni̯eːl maʁk koːn ˈbɛndɪt, -ni̯ɛl]; born 4 April 1945) is a French-German politician. Born stateless to a German-Polish Ashkenazi Jewish family, Daniel Cohn-Bendit obtained German citizenship in 1959 and French citizenship in 2015.
Cohn-Bendit was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge (French for "Danny the Red", because of both his politics and the colour of his hair). He was co-president of the group European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament. He co-chairs the Spinelli Group, a European Parliament inter-group aiming at relaunching the federalist project in Europe. He was a recipient of the European Parliament's European Initiative Prize in 2016.
Cohn-Bendit's 1970s writings on sexuality between adults and children later proved controversial in 2001 and 2013. The same can be said of his statements to Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) that same year, and his statements on the French TV show Apostrophes in 1982.
Early life
Daniel Cohn-Bendit was born in Montauban, France on 4 April 1945, shortly after the Allied liberation of southern France.
His parents were German Jews who fled Nazi Germany in 1933.
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