Astrid Freudenstein (born October 9, 1973, in Bad Griesbach im Rottal) is a German civil servant and politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).

After graduating from Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium Pocking in 1992, Freudenstein initially completed an internship at unserRadio, a local radio station in Passau.

After completing her studies, Freudenstein worked as a journalist for Bayerischer Rundfunk and as an author in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

(PhD) with the thesis The Power Physicist against the Media Chancellor, in which she analyzed the gender aspect in the coverage of the 2005 federal election campaign.

[1] In 2018, Freudenstein became head of the central department of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, led by minister Andreas Scheuer.