Katja Adler

Katja Adler (born 20 May 1974 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is a German politician from the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and civil servant. She was a member of the German Bundestag from 2021 to 2025.

Early life Adler was born in Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany (now Brandenburg, Germany). Her parents are of German-Jewish origin. Adler attended Polytechnic Secondary School from 1980 to 1990. From 1982 to 1984, she attended the Frankfurt (Oder) sports school. In 1997, she began part-time studies at the University of Hagen, majoring in social behavioural sciences and minoring in political science and law, which she completed in 2006 with a Magister Artium. She was responsible for the University of Greifswald and Rostock University of Music and Theatre. In 2002, she moved to Rhineland-Palatinate and worked in the Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture there until 2011, From 2009 to 2011, she was assigned to the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Innovation. She received 11.3% of the first votes in her constituency and only came fourth with this result. In parliament, she has since been serving on the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. She is also secretary and a deputy member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment and has been Chairwoman of the FDP Oberursel since 2011. - without parliamentary group status. Due to disagreements within the parliamentary group, which manifested themselves in the course of the budget debate, all three other group members left the FDP and are now represented in the city parliament as a group in the newly founded ULO (Unabhängige Liste Oberursel).

Political positions In September 2022, she was one of seven members of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag to vote against a new version of the Infection Protection Act of the traffic light coalition. In February 2024, she was the only member of the FDP parliamentary group to vote against the Cannabis Act.

Private life Adler is the mother of two children (* 2003; * 2008)