Katrin Uhlig

Katrin Babette Uhlig (born 5 July 1982 in Duisburg) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens and a member of the Bundestag from North Rhine-Westphalia. She has sat in parliament since the 20th Bundestag convened on 26 October 2021, after winning a direct mandate in Bonn. In the 21st Bundestag, which convened on 25 March 2025, she holds her seat through the North Rhine-Westphalia state list and was the party's candidate in constituency 95, Bonn.

The Bundestag biography, which the parliament notes is based on the member's own statements, records that she is Protestant, passed the Abitur in 2002, and from 2003 to 2008 studied languages, economics and cultural-area studies for a Diplom at the University of Passau and in Beijing and San Juan, graduating as a Diplom-Kulturwirtin. In 2009 she worked as a project assistant at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and as deputy project manager at the European Climate Foundation there. From 2010 to 2017 she was a scientific adviser on energy and climate protection to the Green group in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament; from 2017 to 2019 she headed the water and wastewater department of the state branch of the Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft; and from 2019 to 2021 she was office manager and scientific adviser in the Bundestag office of Oliver Krischer.

At the federal election of 26 September 2021 she was the Green candidate in the then constituency 96, Bonn, and the official final result gave the Greens 46,467 first votes (25.2 percent), 216 more than the SPD candidate Jessica Rosenthal's 46,251 (25.1 percent), with Christoph Jansen of the CDU on 44,872 (24.4 percent). Turnout was 80.6 percent of 230,215 eligible voters, and the Greens also led the constituency on second votes with 50,174 (27.2 percent). In that term she was an ordinary member of the Committee on Climate Action and Energy and a deputy member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development and of the Subcommittee on International Climate and Energy Policy. Within the Green group she handled renewable energy, and the 2024 Solar Package I, which simplified plug-in balcony solar and also changed rules for tenant electricity, agrivoltaics and wind, was among the bills that passed across her desk.

A state delegate conference of the North Rhine-Westphalia Greens in Bielefeld, reported by the party on 8 December 2024, elected her to seventh place on the state list for the February 2025 federal election. On 23 February 2025, in the renumbered constituency 95, Hendrik Streeck of the CDU won the direct mandate with 63,973 first votes (33.3 percent); Uhlig finished second with 46,819 (24.4 percent). Turnout was 84.9 percent, and on second votes the CDU led with 26.2 percent to the Greens' 22.9 percent. She returned through the state list. In the 21st Bundestag she is an ordinary member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy and of the Budget Committee, and both an ordinary member and the Obfrau of her group on the Subcommittee on Questions of the European Union. Since 2 September 2025 she has been a member of the supervisory board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, and she sits on the board of trustees of the Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Early life and education

Family and schooling

Katrin Uhlig was born on 5 July 1982 in Duisburg, in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The biography published by the Bundestag, which the parliament states is based on members' own disclosures, lists her as Protestant (evangelisch). She grew up in Wuppertal, also in North Rhine-Westphalia, with a younger sister. Her father died early, and her mother raised the children alone. Asked in 2021 whether she had missed him, she answered, "We simply never knew it any other way" („Wir kannten es ja nicht anders.“). Those family details appear in a profile by Philipp Königs in the Bonn newspaper General-Anzeiger, published on 10 September 2021; the Bundestag text and Uhlig's own curriculum vitae do not name relatives.

She took the Abitur, the general German qualification for university entrance, in 2002 in Wuppertal. The Bundestag biography and the General-Anzeiger profile do not name the secondary school. As an adolescent she first considered becoming a physician and then decided on another course of study.

University studies

From 2003 to 2008 she studied languages, economics and cultural-area studies (Sprachen, Wirtschafts- und Kulturraumstudien) for a Diplom at the University of Passau in Bavaria, including periods in Beijing and in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and graduated as a Diplom-Kulturwirtin. Her website dates the completion to the end of 2008. In the General-Anzeiger profile she said she had studied English, Spanish and Mandarin, with the aim of working in education internationally, and she named China, South Africa and Puerto Rico among the places she went during those years. The parliamentary biography lists Beijing and San Juan and does not mention South Africa, and neither account states whether the South African stay was enrolled study, a placement or travel.

The Passau course, introduced in 1989 and known on campus as "Kuwi", joined economics to two modern foreign languages and the study of one cultural region, in Europe or outside it. The study regulations of 15 January 1993, in the version amended on 6 December 2004, set a standard length of nine semesters, including the thesis and the final examinations. A foundation phase of four semesters, about 80 weekly contact hours, ended in a preliminary examination (Diplom-Vorprüfung); an advanced phase of four semesters covered about 91 weekly hours. Students took applied foreign languages; economics, with an introduction to law or to computer science; management and intercultural communication; and the history, politics, sociology, geography and cultural studies of a chosen region. The first language had to be English, French, Italian, Russian or Spanish, with a second modern language required as well. A stay abroad of at least three months — study at a foreign university, a qualified internship, or, as a substitute, at least six months as a teaching assistant at a school abroad — was in principle obligatory, as was a practical placement of at least four weeks. The Diplom thesis, normally written in German and expected to take about three months, had to treat a topic from the chosen region. Published biographies do not record which region Uhlig registered, which pair of languages the examination treated as hers, or the subject of her thesis.

In January 2009 the university described bachelor's and master's degrees in International Cultural and Business Studies as the form the programme had by then taken, and the Diplom as its former shape. Uhlig's recorded qualification is the Diplom, not those later degrees.

Professional career

Before entering the Bundestag in 2021, Katrin Uhlig worked in development and climate organizations in the Netherlands, on energy and climate policy in North Rhine-Westphalia, at a state industry association, and in a Green member’s parliamentary office. The dates and titles follow the biography the Bundestag publishes from members’ own statements; a September 2021 portrait in the Bonn General-Anzeiger adds her account of why she turned to party politics and of what the later jobs involved.

Development and climate work in The Hague

For 2009 that biography lists, among other work, a project assistantship at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and a post as deputy project manager at the European Climate Foundation, also in The Hague; the archived biography for the 20th Bundestag records the same two posts. The institute is the International Institute of Social Studies, a graduate school of development studies and international cooperation established in 1952 by Dutch universities and the Netherlands Ministry of Education. On 1 July 2009 it became a university institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam while remaining in The Hague.

The European Climate Foundation describes itself as a grant-making foundation that supports climate action across Europe. In the General-Anzeiger portrait, Philipp Königs wrote that after her degree Uhlig went to the foundation, then still young and internationally active, whose aim was climate policy that could decisively reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Königs reported that she studied a newly released climate report, which the portrait does not name, and that she later called the reading decisive for her political engagement. “After I had read the study on the dramatic effects, I thought: why is nobody talking about it?” she said, adding that if things continued as they were, people would undermine their own means of existence.

Energy policy in North Rhine-Westphalia

From 2010 to 2017 Uhlig was a scientific staff member for energy and climate protection with the parliamentary group of Alliance 90/The Greens in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The General-Anzeiger described the seven years as specialist work on climate and energy policy for that group.

Those years overlapped Social Democratic–Green state governments under Hannelore Kraft: after the early election of 13 May 2012 the two parties won an absolute majority and continued a coalition that had governed in the minority, the Federal Agency for Civic Education reported. At the May 2017 election the Christian Democratic Union, led by Armin Laschet, became the largest party, ahead of the Social Democrats, who had held the minister-presidency since 2010; the Greens received 6.4 percent. Uhlig’s biography places her with the Landtag group, not a ministry, and ends the job in 2017. Königs wrote that after a further spell in Düsseldorf she moved to Bonn, where relatives and friends lived, and commuted from the Kessenich district to the Landtag.

Association work and the Krischer office

From 2017 to 2019 she headed the water and wastewater department of the North Rhine-Westphalia state group of the Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW). The BDEW states that it represents more than 2,000 companies in energy supply and in drinking water and wastewater, and that it advocates for them with policymakers; the Landesgruppe Nordrhein-Westfalen is its state organization. The General-Anzeiger put her time there at about a year and a half.

From 2019 to 2021 she was office manager and scientific adviser in the Bundestag office of Oliver Krischer, a Green member of parliament. The 20th-Bundestag archive gives the same years and calls the post a scientific advisership; Königs dated the start to April 2019 and wrote that she both ran the office and worked as scientific staff, again with climate protection as the focus. Krischer’s archived biography states that from December 2013 to 2021 he was a deputy chair of the Green Bundestag group and political coordinator of its working group on the environment, climate, energy, agriculture, transport and building. According to the portrait, Uhlig coordinated his appointments and, as his link into the group, drafted written questions (Kleine Anfragen), and she accepted the Berlin post only on condition that she could keep living in Bonn. By the September 2021 interview she had taken leave to campaign. In the Bundestag’s published disclosures, her occupation before membership is given as scientific staff member of Oliver Krischer, MdB, in Berlin.

Party work in Bonn

Joining the Greens and the district executive

According to a profile published by 24RHEIN after the 2021 federal election, Uhlig joined Alliance 90/The Greens in 2011. Her first reported office in the Bonn district association was on the executive chosen at a members' assembly on the evening of 8 December 2015, with about 30 members present. The meeting confirmed Harald Klinke as spokesperson and elected Andrea Bauer, previously an assessor, alongside him after Alexander Geese declined to stand again for professional reasons; Andreas Kröhling was elected treasurer. The assessors elected or confirmed were Verena Zintgraf, Uhlig — spelled Kathrin Uhlig in the General-Anzeiger report — Hannes Jäkel and Mariyke Loomann.

Contemporary profiles describe that assessor's role as lasting from 2015 to 2018, after which Uhlig and Andrea Bauer jointly chaired the district association from 2018 until the spring of 2021. The 24RHEIN profile says she did not stand again for the chair in 2021 because she was seeking a Bundestag seat. She was still co-chair on 8 October 2020, when she told the General-Anzeiger that she would ask the district members' assembly to nominate her for the 2021 federal election. At the time she was also office manager and scientific adviser to Oliver Krischer, a deputy chair of the Green Bundestag group. She argued that Bonn would lose its Green voice in parliament when Katja Dörner, the city's newly elected mayor, left the Bundestag, and that the seat of the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change needed that voice on climate and energy policy.

Candidate selections

On the evening of Friday, 19 March 2021, a digital members' assembly of the Bonn Greens voted on the direct candidacy for the Bonn constituency. Uhlig received 87 votes and René El Salman, a former city councillor who had entered at short notice, received 34. The General-Anzeiger reported that the result still required formal confirmation in a ballot-box vote, and quoted Uhlig as saying that her aim was to win Bonn's first Green direct mandate. She subsequently campaigned as the party's direct candidate. The state list filed by the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia for the same election placed her 15th; the official roll published by the state interior ministry lists Katrin Babette Uhlig, then a scientific adviser living in Bonn, in that position.

For the next federal election, the Bonn association scheduled a members' assembly for Saturday, 31 August 2024, at which Uhlig, then the sitting member for Bonn, was the only person seeking the direct nomination. The General-Anzeiger reported that 81 of 89 members entitled to vote supported her, which it gave as 91 percent, with three votes against and three abstentions, and that the assembly would also propose her for the state list still to be compiled. At the state delegates' conference in the Stadthalle in Bielefeld, where about 280 delegates met over two days beginning on 7 December 2024, she was elected to seventh place on the North Rhine-Westphalia list. The state association announced on 7 December that she had received 94.05 percent of the vote.

2021 federal election

Nomination and campaign

Uhlig sought the Alliance 90/The Greens candidacy in Bonn after Katja Dörner, the city’s Green member of the Bundestag, was elected mayor and left parliament. In October 2020 the General-Anzeiger reported that Uhlig, then co-chair of the Bonn district association and office manager and policy adviser to the Green deputy Oliver Krischer, had asked the local party to consider her. She wrote that Bonn, seat of the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, should again have a Green voice in the Bundestag, and she linked her bid to the energy transition and to a supplementary agreement on the Berlin–Bonn Act, noting that fewer than a third of federal ministry posts were in the city.

At the 2021 election the seat was constituency 96 and consisted only of the city of Bonn. Before the 2025 election it was renumbered 95, still covering only that city, under the redistribution in the 27th amendment to the Federal Elections Act of 7 March 2024. On the evening of 19 March 2021 a digital members’ meeting nominated Uhlig as direct candidate. She received 87 votes to 34 for René El Salman, a former city councillor who had declared late; a ballot-box vote was still required to confirm the result. Uhlig said her aim was Bonn’s first Green direct mandate. The same weekend the local Christian Democratic Union nominated Christoph Jansen, district mayor of Bad Godesberg. The Social Democratic Party and Free Democratic Party candidates were already Jessica Rosenthal, federal chair of the Young Socialists, and the sitting member Alexander Graf Lambsdorff.

The following weekend a hybrid delegate conference of the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia, with about 290 delegates choosing 80 Bundestag candidates, placed Uhlig 15th on the state list. Unopposed, she received 88.17 percent; the partly digital vote still needed a postal confirmation. The federal returning officer’s pre-election register listed her on place 15. It also gave Jansen CDU place 34, Rosenthal SPD place 20 and Lambsdorff FDP place 3, and named Hans Ludwig Neuhoff for the Alternative for Germany, Ilja Bergen for Die Linke and seven further constituency candidates.

For the closing weeks Uhlig took leave from Krischer’s office. The General-Anzeiger reported meetings she reached by bicycle and local transport, and a Münsterplatz appearance with chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock. She told the paper she wanted faster renewable expansion, an earlier coal exit, a shift in transport, cheaper public transport, more affordable housing and a larger climate role for Bonn. The Greens had led the city’s previous European and local elections; her list place was lower than Dörner’s former third place.

Result and the narrow margin

The 2021 German federal election was held on 26 September. In constituency 96, 230,215 people were eligible and 185,557 voted, a turnout of 80.6 percent, 1.3 points above 2017. Of 184,110 valid first votes, the Greens received 46,467 (25.2 percent), a gain of 16.8 points. The SPD received 46,251 (25.1 percent) and the CDU 44,872 (24.4 percent), so Uhlig finished 216 votes ahead of Rosenthal. The FDP took 23,198 first votes (12.6 percent), the AfD 7,448 (4.0 percent) and Die Linke 6,675 (3.6 percent). The state returning officer recorded Katrin Babette Uhlig as elected with 25.2 percent of the valid votes.

On second votes the Greens led the constituency with 50,174 (27.2 percent), ahead of the SPD on 41,641 (22.6 percent) and the CDU on 41,551 (22.5 percent). In 2017 Ulrich Kelber had held the seat for the SPD with 34.9 percent of the first votes; the Greens’ first-vote share that year was 8.4 percent. Provisional figures from the state returning officer on election night already showed the same 216-vote gap.

The local count ran past midnight. The first precinct announced, Duisdorf Mitte, had Jansen on 27.35 percent, Rosenthal on 27.07 percent and Uhlig on 20.51 percent. The General-Anzeiger reported that Rosenthal stayed ahead for much of the evening as the gap narrowed, and that Mayor Dörner gave a preliminary final result at 00:21. A report the next day described the outcome as the first Green direct mandate in the Bonn constituency. The constituency electoral committee was due to certify the result on 1 October.

Lambsdorff, third on the FDP list, followed the count from the party’s Berlin headquarters and returned to the Bundestag. Rosenthal entered on SPD list place 20; Jansen, 34th on the CDU list, did not. Three of the Bonn candidates therefore sat in the 20th Bundestag. It held its constitutive sitting on 26 October 2021: Wolfgang Schäuble opened it as president by age, and the house elected Bärbel Bas president. The Bundestag archive for 2021–2025 lists Uhlig as directly elected for constituency 096, Bonn.

Twentieth Bundestag

Committee assignments

Uhlig sat in the 20th Bundestag (2021–2025) as the directly elected member for Bonn, constituency 096. The archived biography for that term lists her as an ordinary member of the Committee on Climate Action and Energy (Ausschuss für Klimaschutz und Energie) and as a deputy member both of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development and of the Subcommittee on International Climate and Energy Policy.

The climate committee was constituted on 15 December 2021 with 34 ordinary members. Alliance 90/The Greens held five seats—Lisa Badum, Kathrin Henneberger, Bernhard Herrmann, Ingrid Nestle and Uhlig—and Klaus Ernst of Die Linke was elected chair. The Social Democratic Party had ten members, the CDU/CSU nine, the Free Democratic Party and the Alternative for Germany four each, and Die Linke two. The committee was the lead committee for the term’s main renewable-energy bills.

The international subcommittee belongs to the Foreign Affairs Committee, which created it on 8 April 2022 as its first such body. Badum, elected chair, said foreign and security policy could no longer be separated from climate and energy policy. The Greens’ ordinary members were Badum and Henneberger; Trittin and Uhlig were the deputies.

In the Green parliamentary group, then in the governing traffic-light coalition, she was the member responsible for renewable energy.

Renewable-energy legislation

On 7 July 2022 the Bundestag adopted the government bill on immediate measures for a faster renewable build-out and further measures in the electricity sector, the core of the Easter Package. In third reading, 660 votes were cast, 379 in favour and 281 against, with no abstentions; on the preceding show of hands the SPD, Greens and FDP were for the committee text and Die Linke, the CDU/CSU and the AfD against. The resulting Renewable Energy Sources Act 2023, promulgated on 28 July 2022 and fully in force on 1 January 2023, targets at least 80 percent renewable electricity in gross consumption by 2030, on the 1.5 °C path of the Paris Agreement. From 29 July 2022 renewables count as an overriding public interest and as serving public security. Related parts of the package covered grids, offshore wind and the Onshore Wind Act.

Uhlig spoke for the Greens that day, after Economics and Climate Minister Robert Habeck. She tied the 80 percent goal to a faster Energiewende, fewer fossil imports and climate protection, and argued for roofs as power plants, combined self-consumption and full feed-in, citizen-energy projects, offshore wind for industry, and the Onshore Wind Act’s area targets and species-protection rules. The speech backed coalition bills; it did not present her as their author.

Solar Package I (printed paper 20/8657) was the government’s first slice of the May 2023 photovoltaic strategy; part of the draft had already been enacted in 2023. The climate committee’s second report of 24 April 2024 (printed paper 20/11180) was signed by chair Katrin Zschau (SPD) and by Dr Nina Scheer (SPD) as rapporteur. It recommended an amended text—tenant electricity, communal building supply including storage, uniform connection rules, biodiversity criteria for ground-mounted photovoltaics, and a one-year extension of an EU emergency rule for onshore wind—with SPD, Green and FDP votes against the AfD, and with the CDU/CSU and Die Linke abstaining.

On 26 April 2024 Uhlig, speaking for the Greens, said the parliamentary amendment had cut further bureaucracy, citing rooftop and ground-mounted solar, agri-PV, peatland PV and car-park PV, the wind measure, common connection rules, balcony solar, tenant electricity and communal building supply. Second reading followed the committee’s lines. The AfD then forced a roll-call: of 663 votes, 384 were in favour, 79 against and 200 abstentions, and Uhlig voted yes. The Bundesrat cleared Solar Package I the same day, hours after the Bundestag. The Act of 8 May 2024 was promulgated in Bonn on 15 May and generally took effect the next day.

The statute defines a Steckersolargerät—a plug-in device, often called a balcony power plant—as one or more solar installations with an inverter, a cable and a plug into an end user’s final circuit. Devices totalling up to 2 kilowatts and 800 volt-amperes, run behind a household connection and assigned to unpaid feed-in, may be connected under the usual technical rules. Registration in the core market-data register remains; the grid operator cannot demand a further notification.

Scheer, not Uhlig, is the rapporteur named on the committee report. Klimareporter wrote that Solar Package I “passed across her desk” as the Green group’s renewables lead, and that it simplified balcony installations and improved conditions for tenant electricity, agri-photovoltaics and wind. In a pv magazine commentary, Hans-Josef Fell called her the rapporteur and wrote that she had listed bureaucratic barriers from local meetings and worked through them with members of other groups. Those accounts describe coalition redrafting of a ministry bill, not sole authorship.

Advisory and trustee roles

Under the members’ conduct rules, the Bundestag recorded Uhlig from 17 February 2022 as a deputy member of the advisory board of the Federal Network Agency in Bonn. The board has 16 Bundestag members and 16 Bundesrat representatives from Land governments; members and deputies are appointed by the federal government on the chambers’ proposal, and its tasks include proposing the agency’s president and vice-presidents.

From 24 March 2022 she was a trustee of the Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Founded in 1990, the foundation runs museums of German history since 1945 in Bonn, Leipzig and Berlin. Its board of trustees, drawn in equal parts from the Bundestag, the federal government and the Bundesrat, supervises the foundation and decides the budget, the outline of the programme and important appointments.

Other disclosed offices were the accompanying circle for the study “Lokale Agorameter” at Agora Energiewende / SEFEP gGmbH (8 September 2023–13 September 2024); an honorary seat on the advisory board of the Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz (DENEFF) from 21 November 2022; the extended board of Help – Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V. in Bonn from 14 November 2023; the board of trustees of Internationaler Demokratiepreis Bonn e.V. (13 June 2022–7 November 2024); and the board of trustees of Bürger für Beethoven e.V. from 1 March 2024. Only the DENEFF seat is marked honorary.

2025 federal election

List place and direct candidacy

Uhlig stood again for the Bundestag at the early 2025 German federal election on 23 February 2025, as the Bonn constituency candidate of Alliance 90/The Greens and on the party's state list in North Rhine-Westphalia. The district is the city of Bonn. It was numbered constituency 95 in 2025; the same area had been constituency 96 in 2021.

On 31 August 2024 the Bonn Greens nominated Uhlig as their only candidate for the direct mandate. Of 89 members entitled to vote, 81 supported her, three voted against and three abstained, a share the General-Anzeiger reported as 91 percent, and the meeting also decided to propose her for the state list, which had not yet been drawn up. The paper noted that she had taken Bonn narrowly in 2021, ahead of Jessica Rosenthal of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and Christoph Jansen of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the first Green to win the constituency.

The same day the Bonn CDU selected the virologist Hendrik Streeck, director of the Institute of Virology at the University Hospital Bonn, who had been widely interviewed during the COVID-19 pandemic. A party spokesperson told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that he received 71.7 percent of the selection vote.

On 7 and 8 December 2024 about 280 delegates met in the Stadthalle in Bielefeld and adopted a state list of 50 places. Britta Haßelmann took first place with 99.27 percent and Katharina Dröge second place with 97.09 percent. The state party reported Uhlig seventh, after Irene Mihalic, Sven Lehmann, Ulle Schauws and Felix Banaszak.

The electoral law amended in 2023, used for the first time in 2025, fixes the Bundestag at 630 members and makes the second vote alone determine each party's seats. In a state, candidates with a relative majority of first votes are seated in descending order of that share only up to the party's quota; remaining seats are filled in state-list order. A constituency plurality therefore does not by itself confer a seat, and a defeated district candidate can still be returned if the list allocation reaches that place.

Result in Bonn

In the final count, 193,699 of 228,194 eligible voters took part, a turnout of 84.9 percent, 4.3 percentage points above 2021. Of 192,052 valid first votes, Streeck received 63,973 (33.3 percent, up 8.9 percentage points) and won the direct mandate. Uhlig, recorded by the Federal Returning Officer as the runner-up, received 46,819 (24.4 percent, down 0.9 percentage points). The SPD, whose candidate was Rosenthal, polled 41,577 (21.6 percent, down 3.5 percentage points). Other first-vote totals were 15,681 for the Alternative for Germany (8.2 percent, up 4.1 percentage points), 14,776 for Die Linke (7.7 percent, up 4.1), 4,737 for the Free Democratic Party (2.5 percent, down 10.1) and 3,017 for Volt Germany (1.6 percent, unchanged).

Of 192,723 valid second votes, the CDU led with 50,413 (26.2 percent, up 3.6 percentage points), ahead of the Greens on 44,136 (22.9 percent, down 4.3), the SPD on 34,078 (17.7 percent, down 4.9), Die Linke on 23,994 (12.4 percent, up 7.0) and the AfD on 17,186 (8.9 percent, up 4.7).

Before the count was finished, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported Streeck ahead and quoted Nathanael Liminski, the Bonn CDU chair, as saying that Streeck had taken the so-called Adenauer constituency—where Konrad Adenauer had once stood—for the CDU for the first time since 1998. The paper also reported that Rosenthal, a former federal chair of the Young Socialists who had entered on a list place in 2021, had been placed only 34th on the SPD state list and needed the direct mandate to return, and it described Uhlig's seventh place as promising while she again campaigned for first votes. The final result confirmed Streeck's direct mandate. Uhlig lost the district but is listed by the Federal Returning Officer as elected from place 7 of the Green state list in North Rhine-Westphalia, with a candidacy also in constituency 95; the Bundestag biography likewise records her return via that list. Rosenthal does not appear among the elected members published under the letter R.

Twenty-first Bundestag

Committees

The Bundestag of the 21st electoral term held its constitutive sitting on 25 March 2025. Katrin Uhlig sits for Alliance 90/The Greens, returned on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia after also standing in constituency 095, Bonn. On 6 May 2025 Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union was elected chancellor on a second ballot, 325 votes to 289, leading a coalition of the CDU, the Christian Social Union and the Social Democratic Party with 328 seats. The Greens supported holding that ballot the same day but, through parliamentary business manager Irene Mihalic, opposed Merz and the CDU/CSU–SPD programme, and remained outside the government.

On 21 May 2025 the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy and the Budget Committee each constituted themselves with 42 members: 14 from the CDU/CSU, ten from the Alternative for Germany, eight from the SPD, six from the Greens and four from Die Linke. Uhlig was named among the six Green members of both and is an ordinary member of each. Her biography and Abgeordnetenwatch also list her as an ordinary member and Obfrau of the Subcommittee on Questions of the European Union, a subcommittee of the Budget Committee.

The subcommittee prepares the Budget Committee’s work on European documents from the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission, and meets members of the European Court of Auditors, members of the European Parliament and European commissioners. An Obfrau is one member per group on a committee: the group leadership’s main contact there, shaping its line, stating its interests, and settling agendas and the planning of business. The published lists attach that title to Uhlig for the European subcommittee.

Oversight appointments

From 2 September 2025 Uhlig’s mandatory disclosure lists her as a member of the supervisory board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Bonn. GIZ describes a parity board of ten shareholder and ten employee representatives. The shareholder side is four Bundestag members who sit on the Budget Committee, five representatives of federal ministries, and one representative of the Deutsche Stiftung für internationale Entwicklung from the Bavarian State Chancellery. The published list names Uhlig with Inge Gräßle, Siemtje Möller and Mechthilde Wittmann; Niels Annen, a state secretary in the development ministry, is chair.

Uhlig has sat on the board of trustees of the Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland since 24 March 2022. On 19 March 2026 the Bundestag again chose the trustees it sends to that board. Uhlig as member and Sven Lehmann as deputy, the Green nominees, were elected with the votes of the CDU/CSU, the SPD, the Greens and Die Linke against the AfD; the AfD slate received only its own group’s votes and failed. The foundation’s list of that day records the same pairing and leaves the AfD places vacant. Founded in 1990, the foundation runs four museums in Bonn, Leipzig and Berlin on German history since 1945. The trustees decide the budget, the outlines of the programme and important appointments; of 32 members, the Bundestag and the federal government each choose eight and the Bundesrat 16.

Opposition activity

Her plenary speeches have concentrated on the economics budget and on where climate spending is booked. In the first reading of the 2026 budget, on 26 September 2025, she told economics minister Katherina Reiche that listing obstacles was not the work of a government no longer in opposition. She argued that the electricity-tax cut and the subsidies for transmission-grid charges helped large users, that smaller firms, craft businesses and households were still outside the tax cut, and that grid-charge relief would arrive unevenly by region. The draft, she said, lacked money for a further round of climate-protection contracts, for hydrogen in industry, and for new gas-fired plants, while an industrial electricity price was only an empty line despite talk of 3.5 to 4.5 billion euros from 2027; her group would table budget motions.

Later that day she quoted finance minister Lars Klingbeil on investment and said the draft instead fixed the status quo. She criticised shifts of heat-network and microelectronics spending among the core budget, the special fund for infrastructure and climate neutrality, and the Climate and Transformation Fund, including what she called an accidental booking to that fund of the cost of emission allowances if climate targets were missed, and argued that an industrial electricity price from 2027 would be paid for by cutting climate contracts and hydrogen.

On 10 October 2025, at the first reading of the bill for a subsidy to transmission-grid charges in 2026 (printed paper 21/1863), she called the 6.5 billion euro sum unfair because not every consumer would see it on the bill and, she said, studies showed it would scarcely reach northern Germany. She preferred an electricity-tax cut for households and smaller firms, and asked how a capacity market would be financed when the budget set nothing aside.

At the budget’s second reading on 25 November 2025 she said climate-related lines, including every cycling title from the transport budget, had been moved into the Climate and Transformation Fund so that money freed in the core budget could pay for what she called election gifts rather than additional investment. On power stations she said plans had moved from 20 gigawatts of unabated gas to about 12 gigawatts meant to be hydrogen-ready. In the same sitting Green colleague Michael Kellner said she had pressed in the Budget Committee for more money to decarbonise industry.

Political positions

Energy and climate

Uhlig has made renewables the centre of her Bundestag work, as the Alliance 90/The Greens group’s lead in government and, after 2025, in opposition. On 7 July 2022 she backed, for the group, an 80 percent renewable-electricity target by 2030, arguing that faster wind and solar would cut fossil imports and, in time, prices, and that citizen-energy projects should be strengthened. On 26 April 2024 she presented Solar Package I as less bureaucracy for roof and plug-in solar, tenant electricity, shared building supply, agri-PV and onshore wind, and as part of the Energiewende’s decentralised design. Thomas Heilmann of the CDU/CSU credited parts of the law but said it was late and left European Union energy-sharing rules and adequate biogas auctions unfinished. Ralph Lenkert of Die Linke said it abandoned German module plants, including Meyer Burger in Freiberg. Uhlig and seven other Greens voted that day for the amended climate law, but wrote that replacing binding annual sector targets could let transport and buildings lag until a socially managed shift was no longer possible.

In February 2025 she told the Zeitschrift für kommunale Wirtschaft that the Buildings Energy Act row was “certainly no great feat of political communication, inside the coalition either”, yet addressing heat remained “right and important”. She preferred the cabinet draft, doubted green hydrogen would be affordable in most homes, and said district heating still had to become climate-neutral, with planning security ahead of reversal. Fully climate-neutral power by 2035, the Green programme aim, was “only consistent” with the 2030 path, if “very ambitious”. Asked on Radio Bonn/Rhein-Sieg whether the Greens had “screwed it up across the board”, as a Fridays for Future speaker had said, she answered, “I wouldn’t see it that way”, because expansion in her field had “got relatively far”. She did call the heating-law explanation “in need of improvement”, and said it was not about “ripping out heaters” but about larger subsidies for lower incomes and a later end to some oil and gas systems.

In opposition she told Klimareporter that a “rollback” was “highly dangerous”, and that cutting new Climate and Transformation Fund investment from an announced 50 billion euros to 25 billion was a “deception”. Renewables, she said, had to reach users through the grids, and industry in North Rhine-Westphalia needed stable rules. In September 2026 she led a Green motion against economics minister Katherina Reiche and the CDU/CSU–SPD draft of the Renewable Energy Sources Act, which the group said added bureaucracy for rooftop solar and branded renewables “expensive” while locking in costlier fossil plant. A February 2026 question with the group said missing EU state-aid clearance was still delaying Solar Package I projects, especially for farmers and cooperatives.

Housing, mobility and Bonn

In September 2021 she told Abgeordnetenwatch that the Greens would seek 30 km/h as the normal urban speed across Germany, not only in Bonn, with 50 km/h the exception, aiming at “Vision Zero”—no road deaths or serious injuries. In the 2025 campaign the General-Anzeiger reported that she was standing on energy policy and affordable housing. On 21 February 2025 she wrote that homelessness “should not occur in a rich country”, that her party would develop the national plan toward ending it by 2030, and that there should be no evictions onto the street; Housing First, a home without first qualifying for help, was central, and she was in touch with groups in Bonn. On the radio she said younger voters asked about rents, while the charge that Green policy was unaffordable drowned out housing pledges; her own line, she said, was “differentiated” and easier to caricature.

Haus & Grund Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, while congratulating her, said its views on property and tenancy law differed from hers, though more homes had to be built and energy efficiency had to stay affordable for people building at their own risk. On her site she also calls for a federal frame so travel in Bonn is “climate-friendly, safe and uncomplicated”, and for developing the city as an “international climate capital” around the UN climate secretariat.

Europe and democracy

At her renomination by Bonn Greens in August 2024, the General-Anzeiger reported that she wanted to defend democracy “above all against forces on the outer right” and to work “for more climate protection, social justice and a secure Europe”. In the February 2025 interview she called compromise “a value in this democracy”: the Greens were “not at 50 percent”, so governments would still be coalitions. The Alternative for Germany, she said, was not a protest party; many of its members were hostile to the constitution and on the far right, and did not support “our free democracy as we know and love it”. Before the June 2025 Day of Climate Democracy she told Klimareporter that exchange with citizens was “essential” for climate measures that work, because conflicting views could enter law-drafting.

Memberships and disclosures

Civil-society memberships

The Bundestag biography, which the parliament says rests on the member's own statements, lists Katrin Uhlig's memberships as BUND, the services union ver.di, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung NRW (the North Rhine-Westphalia branch of the Heinrich Böll Foundation), Youth for Understanding e.V., Help – Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V., the Freundeskreis des Beethovenfest, and Bürger für Beethoven. The archived 20th-term biography named only BUND, ver.di and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung NRW; the other four associations appear on the current page. That voluntary list is separate from offices published under the code of conduct.

Declared offices and benefits

Under the code of conduct (§§ 45 ff. of the Members of the Bundestag Act), notifications are due within three months of taking a seat, and changes within three months of arising; the Bundestag publishes an item only after checking that a publication duty exists. Guidance limits the page to what §§ 47 and 48 make public, and only to categories with an entry; a function may be marked honorary (ehrenamtlich), at the member's request, only if it brings no income or merely expense reimbursement clearly below the usual fee and not above 3,000 euro a year.

The current page records two seats that are also parliamentary appointments: the supervisory board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Bonn from 2 September 2025, and the board of trustees of the Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn. In associations it lists the board of trustees of Bürger für Beethoven e.V.; the advisory board of Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz e.V. (DENEFF) in Berlin, marked honorary and ended on 2 June 2025; and, at Help – Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V. in Bonn, the extended executive board until 15 September 2025 and the Präsidium from 16 September 2025. The 20th-term archive dates Haus der Geschichte from 24 March 2022, DENEFF from 21 November 2022, Help's extended board from 14 November 2023 and Bürger für Beethoven from 1 March 2024, and also records the board of trustees of Internationaler Demokratiepreis Bonn e.V. from 13 June 2022 to 7 November 2024, a deputy seat on the advisory board of the Federal Network Agency from 17 February 2022, and, from 8 September 2023 to 13 September 2024, a place on the accompanying circle for the study "Lokale Agorameter" at Agora Energiewende (SEFEP gemeinnützige GmbH). The prize association gives a biennial award for work on democracy, human rights and the rule of law; in 2022 its trusteeship included Bundestag members elected in 2021. The network-agency, democracy-prize and Agora entries do not appear on the current page, which likewise publishes no paid sideline, shareholding, or agreement on future work or a financial advantage. The pre-mandate occupation filed under the same rules is scientific staff to Oliver Krischer, then a member of the Bundestag, in Berlin.

Under donations and other benefits for political activity, the page records that APROPOS-Advancing Process in Politics gUG, Berlin, met travel costs of 3,523.11 euro in 2026. Separately, the 2022 accountability report of Alliance 90/The Greens, published as Bundestag printed paper 20/10430, lists natural persons whose combined donations, membership contributions and mandate-holder contributions exceeded 10,000 euro in that year. It names Katrin Uhlig, Gangolfstraße 6, 53111 Bonn — her constituency-office address — for 25,514.00 euro, without dividing that sum among the three categories.