Katharina Fegebank | |
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Second Mayor of Hamburg | |
Assumed office 15 April 2015 | |
First Mayor | Olaf Scholz Herself (Acting) Peter Tschentscher |
Preceded by | Dorothee Stapelfeldt |
Senator for Science,Research,Equality and Municipalities of Hamburg | |
Assumed office 15 April 2015 | |
First Mayor | Olaf Scholz Herself (Acting) Peter Tschentscher |
Preceded by | Dorothee Stapelfeldt |
First Mayor of Hamburg Acting | |
In office 14 March 2018 –28 March 2018 | |
Second Mayor | Herself |
Preceded by | Olaf Scholz |
Succeeded by | Peter Tschentscher |
Leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens in Hamburg | |
In office 7 May 2008 –30 May 2015 | |
Deputy | Manuel Sarrazin |
Preceded by | Anja Hajduk |
Succeeded by | Anna Gallina |
Personal details | |
Born | Bad Oldesloe,Schleswig-Holstein,West Germany | 27 February 1977
Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
Katharina Fegebank (born 27 February 1977) is a German politician for the Alliance '90/The Greens,who has served as Second Mayor of Hamburg and Senator for Science,Research and Equality since 2015. She briefly served as acting First Mayor in March 2018.
Fegebank grew up in Bargteheide,as the daughter of two teachers. [1]
On 22 June 2008,Fegebank was elected chair of the Green-Alternative List (GAL) in Hamburg,and became the youngest ever leader of a Green state association. [2] Since 15 April 2015 she serves as Second Mayor of Hamburg as well as Senator for Science,Research,and Equal Rights in the Senate Scholz II. [3] In this capacity,she is one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat.
Fegebank was a Green Party delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017 [4] [5] and in 2022. [6]
On 14 March 2018,Fegebank became the acting head of the government of Hamburg after Olaf Scholz moved to the new Federal Government, [7] until Peter Tschentscher was elected new Mayor of Hamburg on 28 March 2018. She continued to serve as Second Mayor and Senator for Science,Research,and Equal Rights in his government.
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD),the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections,Fegebank led her party's delegation in the working group on innovation and research;her co-chairs from the other parties are Thomas Losse-Müller and Lydia Hüskens. [8]
Fegebank supports a ban on full-face veils in schools,arguing that the burqa and the niqāb are "symbols of oppression". [18]
Katharina Fegebank rejects a rent cap in Hamburg. Hamburg is one of the most expensive cities for rentals. [19] [20]
Fegebank has been in a relationship with businessman Mathias Wolf since 2015. In 2018,she became a mother of twin daughters. [21] The family lives in Hamburg's Eilbek district. [22] In July 2019,the family's house was vandalized. [23]
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