Bärbel Kofler
Bärbel Kofler | |
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Kofler in 2019 | |
| Federal Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance | |
| In office March 2016 – December 2021 | |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Minister | Frank-Walter Steinmeier Sigmar Gabriel Heiko Maas |
| Preceded by | Christoph Strässer |
| Succeeded by | Luise Amtsberg |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2004 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 May 1967 Freilassing, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | SPD |
| Alma mater | |
Bärbel Kofler (born 24 May 1967) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2004.
In addition to her parliamentary work, Kofler has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in the governments of successive Chancellors Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz since 2021. From 2016 until 2021, she served as Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance at the Federal Foreign Office in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.