Joschka Fischer

Fischer was sworn in as Hesse's environment minister in 1985 wearing trainers, the first Green to hold ministerial office in Germany, and he became the leading "realo" arguing that Greens should govern. As federal foreign minister from 1998 he backed NATO's 1999 Kosovo intervention, and was hit by a paint bomb at a party conference for it. His career shows both what office delivered and what pacifist members felt it cost.