When Philipp Nimmermann got into politics almost nine years ago, you could see it as a coincidence at first glance. A banker from Frankfurt became state secretary in Schleswig-Holstein’s Green Ministry of Finance. Until then, he had done politics “in the background”, he once said. At this point, Nimmermann was already well connected within the Hessian Greens. No wonder that sooner or later his profile would attract attention: A green man who rose step by step within 15 years from economist to head of department to chief economist of a private bank – that is rather unusual. Born in Berlin, Nimmermann grew up in Frankfurt, graduated from high school, studied economics at the Goethe University there, research and study visits took him to Great Britain and Chile, before returning to the Main for his doctorate.
Timo Steppat
Correspondent for Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland based in Wiesbaden.
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In Kiel, Nimmermann quickly gained a reputation as a doer. The Green Minister of Finance, Monika Heinold, gave him a lot of leeway in the delicate privatization of HSH Nordbank. In view of the high costs for the state treasury, which would have threatened in the event of failure, the risk and opportunity were at the same time for Never Man. He managed to put his knowledge of the banking scene to good use and shone with a good deal. “I will miss this cool guy and the whole cabinet will miss it,” said Schleswig-Holstein’s Prime Minister Daniel Günther when he returned to Hesse in 2019.