Christa Nickels (née Kleuters; born 29 July 1952) is a German former nurse and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Health and Commissioner on Narcotic Drugs in the cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
[1] In a tumultuous plenary debate on a plan to deploy American Pershing II and cruise missiles in November 1983, she notably gave Chancellor Helmut Kohl a wreath of paper cranes made by children in Hiroshima.
[3] When, on 18 October 1984, President of the Bundestag Richard Stücklen excluded Green Party MP Jürgen Reents from the session for calling Helmut Kohl "bought by Flick", Nickels requested an interruption.
Following the 2002 elections, Nickels was part of the Green Party's team in the negotiations with the Social Democrats on a coalition agreement for the second government under the leadership of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
[5] Ahead of the 2005 elections, Nickels announced her intention to run for another term but eventually failed to secure her party's nomination.