Katharina Dröge | |
|---|---|
 Dröge in 2023 | |
| Leader of theAlliance 90/The Greens in theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 7 December 2021 Serving with Britta Haßelmann | |
| Preceded by | Anton Hofreiter |
| Member of theBundestag forCologne III | |
| Assumed office 22 October 2013 | |
| Preceded by | multi-member district |
| Constituency | Alliance 90/The Greens list |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1984-09-16)16 September 1984 (age 41) |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Education | German Academic Scholarship Foundation |
| Alma mater | University of Cologne (2004–2010) |
Katharina Dröge (born 16 September 1984) is a German economist and politician ofAlliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as co-chair of the Green Party’s parliamentary group in theBundestag since 2021, alongsideBritta Haßelmann.[1] She previously served as one of the group’s managers (Parlamentarische Geschäftsführerin) from 2018 to 2021.[2] She has been a member of theBundestag since 2013.
On a scholarship of theGerman Academic Scholarship Foundation, Dröge studied economics at theUniversity of Cologne from 2004 to 2010.[3]
From 2010 until 2013, Dröge worked at the State Ministry of Climate Change, Environment, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia.
Dröge has been a member of the GermanBundestag since the2013 elections, representingCologne’sEhrenfeld, Nippes, andChorweiler districts. In parliament, she has since been serving on the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy. She is also her parliamentary group's spokesperson on competition policy. In addition to her committee assignments, she is a member of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group.
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and theFDP following the2021 federal elections, Dröge led her party's delegation in the working group on labor policy; her co-chairs from the other parties wereHubertus Heil andJohannes Vogel.[4]
In September 2024, within a context of growingIslamophobia in Germany, Dröge drew criticism after claiming that "the poison of Islam reaches people's heads here", she later claimed that she had meant to say "Islamism" rather than "Islam".[5][6]
Within the Green Party, Dröge is considered to be part of its left wing.[10]
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