Luise Amtsberg, Member of the German Bundestag

Luise Amtsberg, Member of the German Bundestag

From September 28th until October 1st, Luise Amtsberg, Member of the German Bundestag, will attend the Congress-Bundestag Forum Freshman Study Tour, held in Washington, DC. The study tour is organized by the German Marshall Fund and the Robert Bosch Stiftung. The purpose of the forum is to increase transatlantic dialogue and cooperation concerning regional, national, as well as global challenges and opportunities. Topics of the study tour will range from Trade and Investment to Energy and Immigration Policy. Following the study tour, Ms. Amtsberg will participate in several convenings organized by the Böll Foundation with Think Tank and NGO experts working on refugee and immigration policies in the U.S.

Biography

Luise Amtsberg was born on 17 October 1984 in Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In 2004 she moved to Kiel to pursue a degree in Islamic Studies, Political Sciences and Evangelical Theology at the Christian-Albrechts-University. In 2009, Luise Amtsberg was elected to the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein. As the Green fraction’s spokeswomen for Refugee Policy and against Right-Wing Extremism, she introduced a number of initiatives improving the livelihood of refugees in Germany.

In March 2013, Luise Amtsberg was selected as the top candidate of the Greens of Schleswig-Holstein for the national parliamentary elections. Since she took up her seat in the German parliament in September 2013, she has been the Green Parliamentary Group’s spokeswomen of Refugee Policy in the Bundestag. Ms. Amtsberg is a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs, the Petitions Committee and the Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. In the Committee on Internal Affairs, Ms. Amtsberg is responsible for German and European Refugee Policy. In addition, she represents the Green Parliamentary Group in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Her work aims at advancing a humane asylum policy in Germany, promoting a common European asylum framework, and ending the politics of isolation at the EU's external borders.