Luise Amtsberg


Luise Amtsberg is a German politician for Alliance 90/The Greens. Since the federal election in 2013, she has been a member of the German Bundestag.

Early life and education

Amtsberg grew up in the East Berlin district of Karlshorst. In 2004 she graduated from high school in Hemmoor, Lower Saxony.
From 2004 to 2013 Amtsberg studied Islamic Studies, Political Science and Theology at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel. During her studies, she served as AStA chairwoman from 2006. In 2013, she graduated with a master's thesis on feminism in Islam using the example of the Palestinian women's movement.

Political career

From 2009 to 2012 Amtsberg was MP in the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag, where she served as her parliamentary group’s spokesperson on refugees and Neo-Nazism. From 2012 to 2013, she served as chairwoman of the Kiel Greens.
In the 2013 elections, Amtsberg was elected into the Bundestag for the Green Party in Schleswig-Holstein. 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. In 2017, she ran again on list position 1 and as a direct candidate in the constituency of Kiel 5 and was re-elected.
In addition to her committee assignments, Amtsberg has been part of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2014. She has served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group and the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States in the Middle East, which is in charge of maintaining inter-parliamentary relations with Bahrain, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Palestinian territories. 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 and Katrin Göring-Eckardt visited the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan to learn more about the plight of Syrians fleeing the violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011.
Under the umbrella of the German Parliaments’ godparenthood program for human rights activists, Amtsberg has been raising awareness for the work of persecuted dissidents Narges Mohammadi of Iran, Günal Kurşun of Turkey and Issa Amro of Palestine.

Other activities

Amtsberg is married. In 2016, she gave birth to a son.