Josefine Koebe (German: [jozeˈfiːnə ˈkøːbə]; born 3 July 1988) is a German politician (SPD) and economist. In the 2023 Hessian state election she was elected to the 21st Landtag of Hesse, which will be constituted on 18 January 2024.[1]

Life

Koebe was born in Bensheim where she attended the Altes Kurfürstliches Gymnasium and graduated in 2007. She then studied International Economics at Tübingen and spent a two-semester exchange programme at Sciences Po Paris. After completing her Bachelor's degree in 2012, she studied at HU Berlin in the Master's programme Economics and finished it in 2015.

From March 2015 to October 2017, Koebe worked as deputy head of the parliamentary office of the then Erste Parlamentarische Geschäftsführerin (Chief Whip) of the SPD parliamentary group, Christine Lambrecht.[2]

Koebe then began doctoral studies at the Universität Hamburg and was awarded her PhD in 2023 with a thesis on "Unintended Yet Effective: Evidence from Policy Reforms in Early Childhood Education and Care, Education and Environmental Economics".[3] From January 2018 to December 2021, as part of her doctorate, she was a research assistant in the Education and Family Division at the Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) in Berlin.[4]

Since October 2021, she has been in charge of research collaborations in early education as well as the company's research and university network for the Fröbel Bildung und Erziehung gGmbH.[2]

Koebe is married and has four children.[5]

Politics

Koebe has been a member of the SPD since 2013. Among other things, she was a member of the district executive Tempelhof-Schöneberg of the Berlin SPD for several years, the state executive of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialdemokratischer Frauen (Association of Social Democratic Women, ASF) Berlin and in the state committee for youth, education and family of the Berlin SPD.[2]

In 2021, she was elected as an honorary city councillor in the Magistrat (municipal administration) of the city of Bensheim,[6] where she has been deputy chairperson of the local SPD association since the same year.[7] In the Bergstraße SPD county association, she was elected deputy chairperson on 6 November 2021 at the party congress in Wald-Michelbach[8] and also chairperson of the ASF in the same year.[9] On 2 September 2023, she was elected to the executive committee of the SPD district of Southern Hesse at the party congress in Offenbach.

In the 2023 Hessian state election, she stood as a candidate in the Bergstraße II constituency and was elected to the Landtag of Hesse via the SPD state list. The 21st legislative period of the Landtag begins on 18 January 2024.[10] Due to her election to the state parliament, she resigned from the Bensheim municipal council in December 2023.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Preliminary Result of the Landtag Election on 8 October 2023" (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  2. 1 2 3 "Curriculum vitae of Dr. Josefine Koebe" (PDF) (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  3. ↑ "Hochschulschriftenbearbeitung der SUB Hamburg" (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  4. ↑ "DIW Berlin: Koebe, Josefine" (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  5. ↑ "Website of Dr. Josefine Koebe". Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  6. ↑ "Magistrat – Stadtverwaltung Bensheim" (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  7. ↑ "Bergsträßer Anzeiger: Bensheimerin Josefine Koebe will in den hessischen Landtag" (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  8. ↑ "SPD-Unterbezirk Bergstraße: Unterbezirksvorstand" (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  9. ↑ "SPD Frauen (ehem. Arbeitsgemeinschaft der sozialdemokratischen Frauen, ASF) – SPD-Unterbezirk Bergstraße". Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  10. ↑ "Dr. Josefine Koebe – Profil bei Abgeordnetenwatch" (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  11. ↑ "Pressemitteilung der SPD-Fraktion in der Stadtverordnetenversammlung der Stadt Bensheim: „Ralph Stühling zieht in den Bensheimer Magistrat ein"" (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-20.
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