Josephine Ortleb | |
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![]() Ortleb in 2020 | |
Vice President of the Bundestag (on proposal of the SPD-faction) | |
Assumed office 25 March 2025 | |
President | Julia Klöckner |
Preceded by | Aydan Özoğuz |
Whip of the Social Democratic Party in the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 16 December 2020 | |
Leader | Rolf Mützenich |
Chief Whip | Carsten Schneider Katja Mast |
Preceded by | Dagmar Ziegler |
Member of the Bundestag for Saarbrücken | |
Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
Preceded by | Anette Hübinger |
Personal details | |
Born | Saarbrücken,West Germany (now Germany) | 25 November 1986
Political party | SPD |
Josephine Ortleb (born 25 November 1986) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saarland since 2017. She has been its Vice President as of March 2025.
Ortlieb became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election,representing Saarbrücken. [1] In parliament,she is a member of the Committee on Families,Senior Citizens,Women and Youth and the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. [2] [3] In this capacity,she serves as her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on gender equality.[ citation needed ]
In addition to her committee assignments,Ortleb has been a substitute member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) since 2018,where she serves on the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 2018) and the Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (since 2020). [4]
Since 2020,Ortleb has been part of the SPD parliamentary group’s leadership under its chairman Rolf Mützenich. [5] Within the group,she belongs to the Parliamentary Left,a left-wing movement. [6]