Lena Kreck (born 23 January 1981) is a German lawyer and professor at the Evangelische Hochschule Berlin [de].
[1][2] After completing her legal clerkship, Kreck worked, among other things, as a lawyer at the LGBT counseling center in Berlin, where she assisted with the needs of refugees.
In October 2019, she was appointed professor of social work at the Evangelische Hochschule Berlin, with a focus on "law and society".
The left-wing coalition government accused the Christian Democratic Union of abstaining from the vote despite pledging to confirm Kreck, though this could not be proven due to the secret ballot and lack of comment from the CDU.
[6] Kreck is considered close to the libertarian socialist Emancipatory Left current within the party, and served alongside Katja Kipping on the editorial board of the group's former journal Prague Spring.