Katharina Fegebank

She briefly served as acting First Mayor in March 2018.

Katharina Fegebank
Second Mayor of Hamburg
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 April 2015
First Mayor	Olaf Scholz Herself (Acting) Peter Tschentscher
Preceded by	Dorothee Stapelfeldt
Senator for Science, Research, Equality and Municipalities of Hamburg
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 April 2015
First Mayor	Olaf Scholz Herself (Acting) Peter Tschentscher
Preceded by	Dorothee Stapelfeldt
First Mayor of Hamburg Acting
In office 14 March 2018 – 28 March 2018
Second Mayor	Herself
Preceded by	Olaf Scholz
Succeeded by	Peter Tschentscher
Leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens in Hamburg
In office 7 May 2008 – 30 May 2015
Deputy	Manuel Sarrazin
Preceded by	Anja Hajduk
Succeeded by	Anna Gallina
Personal details
Born	(1977-02-27) 27 February 1977 (age 47) Bad Oldesloe, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany
Political party	Alliance '90/The Greens

Fegebank grew up in Bargteheide, as the daughter of two teachers.

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. Since 15 April 2015 she serves as Second Mayor of Hamburg as well as Senator for Science, Research, and Equal Rights in the Senate Scholz II. In this capacity, she is one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat.

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

On 14 March 2018, Fegebank became the acting head of the government of Hamburg after Olaf Scholz moved to the new Federal Government, until Peter Tschentscher was elected new Mayor of Hamburg on 28 March 2018. She continued to serve as Second Mayor and Senator for Science, Research, and Equal Rights in his government.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Fegebank led her party's delegation in the working group on innovation and research; her co-chairs from the other parties are Thomas Losse-Müller and Lydia Hüskens.

• Aby Warburg Foundation, Chairwoman of the Board
• Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Trustees
• Alexander Otto Sportstiftung, Member of the Advisory Board
• Hamburgische Regenbogenstiftung, Member of the Board of Trustees
• Institute for the History of the German Jews (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, IGdJ), Hamburg, Chair of the Advisory Board (Kuratorium)
• Hamburg Marketing Gesellschaft mbH (HMG GmbH), Ex-Officio Member of the Supervisory Board
• Hamburg Media School (HMS), Member of the Supervisory Board
• Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Ex-Officio Member of the Senate
• Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Member of the Board of Trustees
• Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Member of the Board of Trustees
• University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees

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

Katharina Fegebank rejects a rent cap in Hamburg. Hamburg is one of the most expensive citys related to rents.

Fegebank has been in a relationship with businessman Mathias Wolf since 2015. In 2018, she became a mother of twin daughters. The family lives in Hamburg's Eilbek district. In July 2019, the family's house was vandalized.