Birgit Honé (born 8 November 1960) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as Minister of Federal and European Affairs and Regional Development in the state government of Minister-President Stephan Weil of Lower Saxony from 2017 to 2022.
From 2004 to 2013, Honé served as a member of the Senate of the Lower Saxony State Audit Office.
Ahead of the 2013 state elections, Stephan Weil included Honé in his shadow cabinet for the Social Democrats’ campaign to unseat incumbent Minister President David McAllister.
Honé was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.
[5] Also in 2022, Honé was part of the Hannover SPD's three-member arbitration committee that decided that former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had not violated any party rules by maintaining close ties to the Russian government and would be allowed to remain a party member.