Isabel Mackensen-Geis | |
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 Isabel Mackensen-Geis in 2017 | |
| Member of the Bundestag for Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Katarina Barley |
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| Born | 29 September 1986 Schwetzingen,West Germany |
| Political party | SPD |
| Alma mater | University of Trier |
Isabel Mackensen-Geis (born 29 September 1986 as Isabel Mackensen) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and member of the Bundestag,the German parliament,since 2019.
Mackensen-Geis was born in Schwetzingen and grew up in Niederkirchen bei Deidesheim (where she still has her home). [1] After passing her Abitur in 2006 at the Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium (secondary school) in Neustadt an der Weinstraße,she studied political science and history at the University of Trier,graduating with an MA in 2012. [2]
Mackensen-Geis became an SPD member in 2009 [2] and was chair of the Palatinate regional section of the Young Socialists in the SPD from 2013 to 2017. [3] In 2019,she was elected a member of the district council of Bad Dürkheim. [4]
In the 2017 German federal election,Mackensen was the SPD candidate for the Neustadt –Speyer district and came second with 25.3% of the vote. [5] Mackensen became a Bundestag member via her party list after Katarina Barley,having been elected to the European Parliament,resigned her seat in the German parliament. [1] She served on the Committee on Food and Agriculture and was re-elected via the SPD-list in the 2021 German federal election.
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD,the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections,Mackensen-Geis was part of her party's delegation in the working group on environmental policy,co-chaired by Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter,Steffi Lemke and Stefan Birkner. [6]
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