Baden-Württemberg's finance minister and Bavaria's Green Party leader have had a baby. Danyal Bayaz and Katharina Schulze announce the baby news.
Another boy: Baden-Württemberg's Finance Minister Danyal Bayaz and his wife Katharina Schulze, Green Party leader in the Bavarian state parliament, have become parents for the second time. “Our second son is now in the world and it is as magical as the first time,” the 40-year-old wrote on Instagram.
The older son is extremely proud. He has been looking forward to welcoming his little brother with a giraffe he had chosen himself. The stuffed animal can be seen in the photo together with a baby carrier and a stuffed monkey. “We are all doing well and the four of us are just getting into the groove at home,” Bayaz reveals, but keeps further details about the new arrival to himself.
Congratulations from followers, friends and colleagues are pouring in under the post. Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt is one of the people to congratulate her. “All the best to you from the bottom of my heart. Enjoy it!” wrote the Green Party politician.
Bayaz, who hails from Heidelberg, has been finance minister in the cabinet of Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) in Stuttgart since 2021; before that, he was a member of the Bundestag. Schulze has been the leader of the Greens' parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament since 2017. The couple have been married since July 2022. Their first son was born around a year earlier.
The Bavarian parliamentary group leader wants to slowly return to work after eight weeks of maternity leave, as she revealed in July. She is “not the type” for parental leave. Schulze and Bayaz continue to have a long-distance relationship despite being married and having children together. It would not be possible otherwise due to their political positions in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Putting their careers aside for the family is out of the question for either of them.
The fact that she was confirmed as parliamentary group leader by a large majority while heavily pregnant with her first child showed her that it was the right decision not to give up the chairmanship, said the 39-year-old at the time. “Every family has to find its own way,” Schulze told the “Nürnberger Nachrichten” in April. She is grateful for her network of family members and friends who help out when needed, as well as the flexibility of colleagues, without whom none of this would be possible.
