Josephine Ortleb

Josephine Ortleb
Josephine Ortleb
	Ortleb in 2020
Whip of the Social Democratic Party in the Bundestag
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 16 December 2020 Serving with Gabriele Katzmarek, Marianne Schieder, Johannes Fechner
Leader	Rolf Mützenich
Chief Whip	Carsten Schneider; Katja Mast
Preceded by	Dagmar Ziegler
Member of the Bundestag ; for Saarbrücken
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 24 October 2017
Preceded by	Anette Hübinger
Personal details
Born	25 November 1986 (age 37); Saarbrücken, West Germany; (now Germany)
Political party	SPD

Josephine Ortleb (born 25 November 1986) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saarland since 2017.

Political career

Ortlieb became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing Saarbrücken.^[1] In parliament, she is a member of the Committee on Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.^[2]^[3] In this capacity, she serves as her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on gender equality.^{[citation needed]}

In addition to her committee assignments, Ortleb has been a substitute member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) since 2018, where she serves on the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 2018) and the Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (since 2020).^[4]

Since 2020, Ortleb has been part of the SPD parliamentary group’s leadership under its chairman Rolf Mützenich.^[5] Within the group, she belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.^[6]