Bärbel Kofler

Bärbel Kofler
Kofler in 2019
Federal Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance
In office
March 2016  December 2021
ChancellorAngela Merkel
MinisterFrank-Walter Steinmeier
Sigmar Gabriel
Heiko Maas
Preceded byChristoph Strässer
Succeeded byLuise Amtsberg
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2004
Personal details
Born (1967-05-24) 24 May 1967
Freilassing, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partySPD
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.