Franziska Kersten | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2021 | |
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| Born | (1968-12-19)19 December 1968 (age 56) |
| Political party | SPD |
| Alma mater | University of Leipzig |
| Occupation | Veterinarian |
Franziska Kersten (born 19 December 1968) is a German veterinarian and politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of theBundestag since 2021, representing theBörde – Jerichower Land district.
Kersten was born in 1968 in the East German town ofLutherstadt Wittenberg and grew up inPretzsch, Wittenberg.[1] She studiedveterinary medicine at theUniversity of Leipzig.
From 2019 to 2020, Kersten served as vice president of theGerman Environment Agency (UBA).[2] From 2020 to 2021, she worked at theFederal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
Kersten was elected directly to the Bundestag in the2021 federal elections.[3] In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of the SPD, theGreen Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the elections, she was part of her party's delegation in the working group on agriculture and nutrition, co-chaired byTill Backhaus,Renate Künast andCarina Konrad.[4]
In parliament, Kersten has since been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, the Committee on Food and Agriculture and the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development.[5] Within her parliamentary group, she is part of working groups on criminal policy and on the environment, nature conservation, nuclear safety and consumer protection.
In addition to her committee assignments, Kersten has been a member of the German delegation to theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly.[6] She has also been an alternate member of the German delegation to theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) since 2022.[7] In the Assembly, she serves on the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development; the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media; and the Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage.
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition under the leadership ofFriedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and the SPD following the2025 German elections, Kersten led the SPD delegation in the working group on rural areas, agriculture, nutrition and the environment; her counterparts from the other parties wereSteffen Bilger andArtur Auernhammer.[8]
Kersten is married to a fellow veterinarian.[10]
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