Luise Amtsberg | |
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| Federal Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance | |
| In office 5 January 2022 – May 2025 | |
| Chancellor | Olaf Scholz |
| Minister | Annalena Baerbock |
| Preceded by | Bärbel Kofler |
| Succeeded by | Lars Castellucci |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 22 September 2013 | |
| Constituency | Kiel (since 2025) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Luise von Jackowski[1] (1984-10-17)17 October 1984 (age 41) |
| Nationality |  Germany |
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| Alma mater | University of Kiel |
| Website | luise-amtsberg |
Luise Amtsberg (néevon Jackowski,[1] born 17 October 1984) is a German politician ofAlliance 90/The Greens who has been a member of the GermanBundestag since thefederal election in 2013.[2] She has represented theconstituency ofKiel since 2025.
In addition to her parliamentary work, Amtsberg served as the Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance in thegovernment ofChancellorOlaf Scholz from 2022 to 2025.[3][4][5]
Amtsberg grew up in theEast Berlin district ofKarlshorst. In 2004, she graduated from high school inHemmoor,Lower Saxony.
From 2004 to 2013, Amtsberg studied Islamic Studies, Political Science and Theology at theChristian-Albrechts-University Kiel.[2] During her studies, she served asAStA chairwoman from 2006. In 2013, she graduated with a master's thesis onfeminism in Islam using the example of the Palestinian women's movement.
From 2009 to 2012 Amtsberg was a member of theState Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein, where she served as her parliamentary group's spokesperson on refugees andNeo-Nazism.[6] From 2012 to 2013, she served as chairwoman of theKiel Greens.[2]
In the2013 elections, Amtsberg was elected into the Bundestag for the Green Party in Schleswig-Holstein via the party list, after being defeated in the constituency of Kiel with 10.0% of the vote. 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. In2017, she ran again on the Green Party list in Schleswig-Holstein and was re-elected while receiving 14.3% of the vote in Kiel and being defeated.
In addition to her committee assignments, Amtsberg has been part of the German delegation to theParliamentary 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 withBahrain,Iraq,Yemen,Jordan,Qatar,Kuwait,Lebanon,Oman,Saudi Arabia,Syria,United Arab Emirates, and thePalestinian 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 andKatrin Göring-Eckardt visited theZaatari refugee camp inJordan to learn more about the plight ofSyrians fleeing the violence in the ongoingSyrian civil war that erupted in 2011.[7]
Under the umbrella of the German Parliaments' godparenthood program for human rights activists, Amtsberg has been raising awareness for the work of persecuted dissidentsNarges Mohammadi of Iran, Günal Kurşun of Turkey, andIssa Amro ofPalestine.
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democrats (FDP) following the2021 German elections, Amtsberg led her party's delegation in the working group on migration and integration; the co-chairs from the other parties wereBoris Pistorius andJoachim Stamp.[8]
After having contested the seat of Kiel in 2013, 2017 and 2021 without getting elected, Amtsberg finally won the seat with 26.0% of the vote in the2025 election.
Amtsberg is married.[6] In 2016, she gave birth to a son.[11] The family lives in Berlin.[12]
