Isabel Mackensen-Geis

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.

Isabel Mackensen-Geis
Isabel Mackensen-Geis in 2017
Member of the Bundestag for Rhineland-Palatinate
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Preceded by	Katarina Barley
Personal details
Born	(1986-09-29) 29 September 1986 (age 38) Schwetzingen, West Germany
Political party	SPD
Alma mater	University of Trier

Early life and education

Mackensen-Geis was born in Schwetzingen and grew up in Niederkirchen bei Deidesheim (where she still has her home).^[1] 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.^[2]

Political career

Mackensen-Geis became an SPD member in 2009^[2] and was chair of the Palatinate regional section of the Young Socialists in the SPD from 2013 to 2017.^[3] In 2019, she was elected a member of the district council of Bad Dürkheim.^[4]

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.^[5] 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.^[1] 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]

References

1. Wolfgang Kreilinger (13 June 2019). "Niederkirchen: Isabel Mackensen rückt für Katarina Barley in den Bundestag nach" (in German). Die Rheinpfalz, Ludwigshafen. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
2. "Über mich". Isabel Mackensen (in German). 16 October 2016. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
3. "Deutscher Bundestag - Isabel Mackensen". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
4. Metropolnews, Redaktion (28 May 2019). "Kreis Bad Dürkheim: Vorläufiges Ergebnis Kreistagswahl 2019". Metropolnews.info (in German). Archived from the original on 3 November 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
5. "Results Neustadt – Speyer - The Federal Returning Officer". www.bundeswahlleiter.de. Archived from the original on 14 October 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
6. Members Parliamentary Left.
7. Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP^{[permanent dead link‍]} Deutschlandfunk, October 27, 2021.