Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (born April 4, 1945) was a leader of the student protesters during May 1968 in France. He is currently co-president of the group European Greens - European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.

Childhood

Cohn-Bendit was born in France to German-Jewish parents who had fled Nazism in 1933. He spent his childhood in Paris. He moved to Germany in 1958, where his father had been a lawyer since the end of the war. He attended the Odenwaldschule in Frankfurt, a secondary school for children of the enlightened upper middle class. Being officially stateless at birth, when he reached the age of 18 he was entitled to German and French citizenships, but he renounced the latter in order to avoid conscription.

Related Topics:
France - Jew - Nazism - Paris - Germany - Frankfurt

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