Daniel Cohn Bendit

Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Cohn-Bendit in March 2010
Co-president of the European Greens–European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament
In office 2004–2014
Succeeded by	Philippe Lamberts
Personal details
Born	Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (1945-04-04) 4 April 1945 (age 72) Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Political party	Alliance '90/The Greens (Germany) Europe Écologie–The Greens (France)
Residence	Frankfurt am Main
Website	cohn-bendit.eu

Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (French: [kɔn bɛndit]; German: [koːn ˈbɛndiːt]; born 4 April 1945) is a French-German politician. He 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 intergroup aiming at relaunching the federalist project in Europe. He was a recipient of the European Parliament's European Initiative Prize in 2016.

Cohn-Bendit was born in Montauban, France, to German Jewish parents who had fled Nazism in 1933. He spent his childhood in Montauban. He moved to Germany in 1958, where his father had been a lawyer since the end of the war. He attended the Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim near Frankfurt, a secondary school for children of the upper middle class. Being officially stateless at birth, when he reached the age of 14 he chose German citizenship, in order to avoid conscription.