Luise Amtsberg

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]

Luise Amtsberg
Luise Amtsberg (2013)
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born
Luise von Jackowski[1]

(1984-10-17) 17 October 1984
Greifswald, East Germany
CitizenshipGerman
Political partyAlliance '90/The Greens
Children1
Alma materUniversity of Kiel
OccupationPolitician

Early life and education

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

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.[3] 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, 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 camp in Jordan to learn more about the plight of Syrians fleeing the violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011.[4]

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 Amro of Palestine.

Other activities

Personal life

Amtsberg is married.[3] In 2016, she gave birth to a son.[6] The family lives in Berlin.[7]

References
  1. Amtsberg, Luise Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein.
  2. Luise Amtsberg, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Bundestag.de
  3. Amtsberg: Sie kämpft hart für die Sache Norddeutscher Rundfunk, 23 September 2017.
  4. Die Fraktionsvorsitzende von Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, besuchte Jordanien press release of 9 December 2014, German Embassy to Jordan, Amman.
  5. Board German-Arab Friendship Association (DAFG)
  6. Ulrike Schuster (April 30, 2017), Eine Abgeordnete wird gefragt und gehört Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  7. Rebekka Wiese (September 24, 2018), Als junge Mutter im Bundestag: Wenn der Kinderwagen im Plenarsaal gegen die Geschäftsordnung verstößt Der Spiegel.
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