Stefanie Hubig

Following the 2013 national elections, Hubig was appointed State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection under minister Heiko Maas, in the coalition government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Following the 2016 state elections, Hubig was appointed State Minister of Education in Rhineland-Palatinate. In this capacity, she has also been also one of the state’s representatives on the Bundesrat,^[4] where she serves on the Committee on Cultural Affairsand the Committee on Women and Youth. She also chaired the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs in 2020.^[5]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, Hubig was part of her party's delegation in the working group on education policy, co-chaired by Andreas Stoch, Felix Banaszak and Jens Brandenburg.^[6] Amid the formation of the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, she was mentioned by numerous news outlets as a potential candidate for a cabinet post;^[7][8][9] however, she remained in her role in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Upon her appointment as the federal minister of justice, Hubig was succeeded by Sven Teuber on 14 May 2025.^[10]

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition under the leadership of Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2025 German elections, Hubig was again part of the SPD delegation in the working group on education, research and innovation, this time led by Karin Prien, Katrin Staffler and Oliver Kaczmarek.^[11] Upon the formation of the Merz cabinet, she was appointed Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection.^[12]

• Stiftung Lesen, Member of the Board of Trustees^[13]