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Luise Amtsberg

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Luise Amtsberg

Federal Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance

Incumbent

Assumed office
5 January 2022

Chancellor

Olaf Scholz

Minister

Annalena Baerbock

Preceded by

Bärbel Kofler

Member of the Bundestag

Incumbent

Assumed office
2013

Personal details

Born

Luise von Jackowski^[1]

17 October 1984 (age 39)
Greifswald, East Germany

Nationality

Germany

Political party

Alliance 90/The Greens

Alma mater

University of Kiel

Website

luise-amtsberg.de

Luise Amtsberg (née von Jackowski,^[1] born 17 October 1984) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been a member of the German Bundestag since the federal election in 2013.^[2] She contested the constituencyofKiel in 2013 and 2017.

In addition to her parliamentary work, Amtsberg has been serving as the Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance in the governmentofChancellor Olaf Scholz since 2022.^[3]^[4]

Early life and education[edit]

Amtsberg grew up in the East Berlin district of Karlshorst. In 2004, she graduated from high school in Hemmoor, Lower Saxony.

From 2004 to 2013, Amtsberg studied Islamic Studies, Political Science and Theology at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel.^[2] During her studies, she served as AStA chairwoman from 2006. In 2013, she graduated with a master's thesis on feminism in Islam using the example of the Palestinian women's movement.

Political career[edit]

From 2009 to 2012 Amtsberg was a member of the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein, where she served as her parliamentary group's spokesperson on refugees and Neo-Nazism.^[5] From 2012 to 2013, she served as chairwoman of the Kiel Greens.^[2]

In the 2013 elections, Amtsberg was elected into the Bundestag for the Green Party in Schleswig-Holstein. In parliament, she has been a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs since 2014. In this capacity, she is also her parliamentary group's spokesperson on refugees. From 2014 until 2017, she also served on the Committee on Petitions. In 2017, she ran again on list position 1 and as a direct candidate in the constituency of Kiel 5 and was re-elected.

In addition to her committee assignments, Amtsberg has been part of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2014. She has served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group (since 2018) and the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States in the Middle East, which is in charge of maintaining inter-parliamentary relations with Bahrain, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and the Palestinian territories (2013–2017). She is also a member of the German-Egyptian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Maghreb States.

In December 2014, Amtsberg and Katrin Göring-Eckardt visited the Zaatari refugee campinJordan to learn more about the plight of Syrians fleeing the violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011.^[6]

Under the umbrella of the German Parliaments' godparenthood program for human rights activists, Amtsberg has been raising awareness for the work of persecuted dissidents Narges Mohammadi of Iran, Günal Kurşun of Turkey, and Issa AmroofPalestine.