Katharina Fegebank

Katharina Fegebank (born 27 February 1977) is a German politician for the Alliance '90/The Greens, who has served as Second Mayor of Hamburg and Senator for Science, Research and Equality since 2015.

[1] On 22 June 2008, Fegebank was elected chair of the Green-Alternative List (GAL) in Hamburg, and became the youngest ever leader of a Green state association.

Fegebank was a Green Party delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017[4][5] and in 2022.

She continued to serve as Second Mayor and Senator for Science, Research, and Equal Rights in his government.

[8] Fegebank supports a ban on full-face veils in schools, arguing that the burqa and the niqāb are "symbols of oppression".