Indeed Baerbock’s political rise has been swift. She studied political science and public law at the University of Hamburg, completed a master’s degree in international law at the London School of Economics, and for a few years was a journalist at German newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.
In the mid-2000s Baerbock worked as an assistant to Green MEP Elisabeth Schroedter.
That’s not to say Baerbock doesn’t smile or laugh along with others.
Laschet is the 60-year-old premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, a devout Catholic whose father was at one point a coal mining engineer.
“A Green Chancellor in the most powerful state sends a powerful message of what is possible,” Wright added.