Jürgen Reents (5 August 1949 – 7 April 2022) was a German politician and journalist.

Early life and education

Reents was born in 1949 in the West German city of Bremerhaven and studied math at the University of Hamburg.

Jürgen Reents

Political career

Reents entered the newly founded Greens and was a member of the Bundestag, the German federal diet from 1983 to 1985.

Jürgen Reents

When, on 18 October 1984, President of the Bundestag Richard Stücklen excluded Reents from the session for calling Chancellor Helmut Kohl "bought by Flick", Christa Nickels requested an interruption. Stücklen turned her microphone off, which prompted Joschka Fischer to address him, "With respect, Mr. President, you are an asshole", for which he in turn was excluded by Stücklen. Fischer apologized to Stücklen two days later.

Jürgen Reents

References

1949 births

2022 deaths

German journalists

Members of the Bundestag for Alliance 90/The Greens

Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany) politicians

The Left (Germany) politicians

Members of the Bundestag for Hamburg

University of Hamburg alumni

People from Bremerhaven