Isabel Mackensen-Geis Explained

Isabel Mackensen-Geis
Office:Member of the Bundestag
for Rhineland-Palatinate
Predecessor:Katarina Barley
Term Start:2 July 2019
Birth Date:1986 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Schwetzingen, West Germany
Party:SPD
Nationality:German
Alma Mater:University of Trier

Isabel Mackensen-Geis (born 29 September 1986 as Isabel Mackensen) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and member of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since 2019.

Early life and education

Mackensen-Geis was born in Schwetzingen and grew up in Niederkirchen bei Deidesheim (where she still has her home). After passing her Abitur in 2006 at the Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium (secondary school) in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, she studied political science and history at the University of Trier, graduating with an MA in 2012.[1]

Political career

Mackensen-Geis became an SPD member in 2009[1] and was chair of the Palatinate regional section of the Young Socialists in the SPD from 2013 to 2017.[2] In 2019, she was elected a member of the district council of Bad Dürkheim.[3]

In the 2017 German federal election, Mackensen was the SPD candidate for the Neustadt – Speyer district and came second with 25.3% of the vote.[4] Mackensen became a Bundestag member via her party list after Katarina Barley, having been elected to the European Parliament, resigned her seat in the German parliament.[5] She served on the Committee on Food and Agriculture and was re-elected via the SPD-list in the 2021 German federal election.

Within her parliamentary group, Mackensen-Geis belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[6]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Mackensen-Geis was part of her party's delegation in the working group on environmental policy, co-chaired by Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, Steffi Lemke and Stefan Birkner.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Über mich . 2016-10-16 . Isabel Mackensen . de-DE . 2019-11-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190702155633/https://isabel-mackensen.de/profil/ . 2019-07-02 . live .
  2. Web site: Deutscher Bundestag - Isabel Mackensen . Deutscher Bundestag . de . 2019-11-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190702162555/https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/M/521786-521786 . 2019-07-02 . live .
  3. Web site: Kreis Bad Dürkheim: Vorläufiges Ergebnis Kreistagswahl 2019 . Metropolnews . Redaktion . 2019-05-28 . Metropolnews.info . de-DE . 2019-11-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191103201505/https://www.metropolnews.info/mp413754/kreis-bad-duerkheim-vorlaeufiges-ergebnis-kreistagswahl-2019 . 2019-11-03 . live .
  4. Web site: Results Neustadt – Speyer - The Federal Returning Officer . www.bundeswahlleiter.de . 2019-11-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191014141909/https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/2017/ergebnisse/bund-99/land-7/wahlkreis-208.html . 2019-10-14 . live .
  5. Web site: Niederkirchen: Isabel Mackensen rückt für Katarina Barley in den Bundestag nach. 13 June 2019. Wolfgang Kreilinger. Die Rheinpfalz, Ludwigshafen. 2019-11-03. de. https://web.archive.org/web/20190702155632/https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/gruenstadt/artikel/bundestag-isabel-mackensen-rueckt-fuer-barley-nach/. 2 July 2019. live.
  6. https://www.parlamentarische-linke.de/unsere-mitglieder/ Members
  7. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ampel-koalition-das-sind-die-verhandlungsteams-von-spd.1939.de.html Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP