60 Years of German-French Relations | People & Politics

Few politicians have both experienced and shaped German-French ties more intensively than Daniel Cohn-Bendit. He was born in 1945 in southern France,the son of a French mother and a German Jewish father.He personally experienced the lingering postwar animosity between the two neighbors - and their reconciliation several years later. As a student leader in the 1960s he was the linchpin of the German and French protest movements. Today he is a Member of the European Parliament for the Greens.