Katrin Lange (née Hofmeister; born 24 December 1971) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Before that, she was Minister of Finance and for Europe [de] in the third Woidke cabinet from 2019 to 2024 and State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior and for Local Affairs of Brandenburg from 2016 to 2019.
[6] On 11 December 2024, she was appointed Minister of the Interior and for Local Affairs [de] of the State of Brandenburg in the fourth Woidke cabinet.
In an interview with Deutschlandfunk in 2022, Lange stated in connection with the sanctions against Russia since the invasion of Ukraine: "We are not obliged to harm ourselves".
[8] Katrin Lange lives in the Beveringen [de] district of the town of Pritzwalk and is the mother of a son (born 1999).