Josefine Koebe

Josefine Koebe (; born ) is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the State Parliament of Hesse since 2024. She is also the Secretary General of the SPD in Hesse.

Early life and education Koebe was born in Bensheim where she attended the Altes Kurfürstliches Gymnasium and graduated in 2007. She then studied International Economics at Tübingen and spent a two-semester exchange programme at Sciences Po Paris. After completing her bachelor's degree in 2012, she studied at HU Berlin in the Master's programme Economics and finished it in 2015. From March 2015 to October 2017, Koebe worked as deputy head of the parliamentary office of the then Erste Parlamentarische Geschäftsführerin (Chief Whip) of the SPD parliamentary group, Christine Lambrecht. She was elected deputy chair of the local SPD association the same year. In the Bergstraße SPD county association, she was elected deputy chairperson on 6 November 2021 at the party congress in Wald-Michelbach and also chairperson of the ASF in the same year. She has been a member of the state board of the Sozialdemokratische Gemeinschaft für Kommunalpolitik (Social Democratic Community for Local Politics, SGK Hesse) since July 2023. On 2 September 2023, she was elected to the executive committee of the SPD district of Southern Hesse at the party congress in Offenbach. Due to her responsibilities in state politics, she declined to run again for deputy chair of the Bensheim SPD association in 2025, but she remains a member of the executive committee.

Career in state politics In the 2023 Hessian state election, Koebe stood as a candidate in the Bergstraße II constituency and was elected to the Landtag of Hesse, which was constituted in January 2024, via the SPD state list.

Koebe was elected as the deputy chair of the Budget Committee. Additionally, she serves as the spokesperson for early childhood education for the SPD parliamentary group and is a member of the Subcommittee on Financial Controlling and Administrative Management, as well as a deputy member of the State Youth Welfare Committee, the Administrative Committee of the Staatstheater Darmstadt, and the Investigation Committee 21/1 (COVID-19). At the beginning of the legislative period, she was a member of the Committee on Science and Culture for several months.

Personal life Josefine Koebe has four children and is in a relationship with the Hessian Minister for Economic Affairs, Kaweh Mansoori (SPD).

Links Website of Dr. Josefine Koebe, MdL