Katharina Fegebank


Katharina Fegebank is a politician in the German political party Alliance '90/The Greens.

Political career

Fegebank grew up in Bargteheide.
On 22 June 2008, Fegebank was elected chair of the Green-Alternative List in Hamburg, and became the youngest ever leader of a Green state association. 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. 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.
On 14 March 2018, Fegebank became the acting head of the government of Hamburg after Olaf Scholz moved to the new Federal Government, until Peter Tschentscher was elected new Mayor of Hamburg on 28 March 2018. She continued to act as Second Mayor and Senator for Science, Research, and Equal Rights in his government.
Fegebank is opposed to burka's saying "The burqa and the niqab are, for me, symbols of oppression,"

Other activities

Fegebank has been in a relationship with businessman Mathias Wolf since 2015. In 2018, she became a mother of twin daughters. The family lives in Hamburg's Eilbek district. In July 2019, the family's house was vandalized.