Read about Ricarda Lang net worth, age, partner, husband, children, height, family, parents, salary and party as well as other information you need to know.
Introduction
Ricarda Lang is a German politician who has been serving as co-leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens since January 2022, alongside Omid Nouripour. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021. Previously, she was co-deputy leader of the party and spokeswoman for women’s policy from 2019 to 2021, and co-leader of the Green Youth from 2017 to 2019.
Early life
| Name | Ricarda Lang |
| Net Worth | $1 million |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Age | 29 years |
| Height | 1.68m |
Ricarda Lang was born on January 17, 1994 (age 29 years) in Filderstadt, Germany. She is the daughter of Eckhart Dietz and was raised by a single mother, who was a social worker and worked at a women’s shelter. Her father was a sculptor who died in 2019. After graduating from the Hölderlin-Gymnasium Nürtingen in 2012, Lang began studying law, first at the Heidelberg University and later at the Humboldt University of Berlin, eventually dropping out in 2019 without graduating.
Political career
Ricarda Lang joined the Green Youth in 2012 at the age of 18. From 2014 to 2015, Lang was the speaker for the Campus Greens, the Greens’ student association. She was a member of the district executive of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Greens from 2015 to 2016.
Lang became an assessor in the federal board of the Green Youth in October 2015, and in October 2017 was elected co-spokesperson at the federal congress. In November 2019, she was elected as deputy chairwoman of the Greens and spokeswoman for women’s policy.
She stood in the 2019 European Parliament election in 25th place on the Greens list but was not elected. She successfully ran for the Bundestag in the 2021 German federal election in tenth place on the Baden-Württemberg list. She also stood in the Backnang – Schwäbisch Gmünd constituency and placed fifth with 11.5% of votes.
She became the first openly bisexual member of the Bundestag. She is a member of the Committee for Family, Seniors, Women, and Youth and a deputy member of the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government between the SPD, Greens, and FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Lang led her party’s delegation in the working group on equality; her co-chairs from the other parties were Petra Köpping (SPD) and Herbert Mertin (FDP). On 29 January 2022, Lang was elected unopposed as chairwoman of the Greens, along with Omid Nouripour. They succeeded Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, who stepped down after joining the Scholz cabinet.
In early 2022, she became one of the six subjects of an embezzlement investigation launched by the Berlin public prosecutor’s office into the entire leadership board of the Green Party over the payment of so-called ‘corona bonuses,’ which had been paid in 2020 to all employees of the party’s federal office and at the same time to its board.
Lang is considered a representative of the left wing of the party. Her main areas of concern are social justice and climate policy. She also supports feminism, body positivity, and queer politics. She is critical of individualist approaches to policy; for example, to tackle climate change, she opposes focusing on individual consumption and advocates phasing out coal and ending subsidies to environmentally damaging industries.
She calls the individualization of these issues a “ploy to divert attention from the culpability of corporations and political responsibility.” Lang’s political goals include an increase in Hartz IV payments, better pay for caregivers, limits on precariat employment, and more support for people living in rural areas.
She supports the admission of climate refugees; in particular, she proposes offering EU citizenship to residents of Pacific island nations whose territory is severely threatened by rising sea levels. She supports arms deliveries to Ukraine in the wake of the Russian incursion, calling in the fall of 2022 “that we need to deliver more weapons, that we need to speed up.”
Husband
Ricarda Lang is in a relationship with her partner Florian Wilsch. On March 25, 2023, she announced her engagement to her partner who is a mathematician working at Leibniz University Hannover. She is bisexual and became the first openly bisexual Bundestag member upon her election in 2021. She has lived in Berlin since 2014.
Ricarda Lang net worth
How much is Ricarda Lang worth? Ricarda Lang net worth is estimated at around $1 million. Her main source of income is from her primary work as a politician. Ricarda Lang’s salary per month and other career earnings are over $210,000 annually. Her remarkable achievements have earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. She is one of the richest and most influential politicians in Germany. She stands at an appealing height of 1.68m and has a good body weight which suits her personality.