Lena Kreck

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Lena Kreck, born 23 January 1981, is a German lawyer and professor who has been Berlin’s Senator for Justice, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination since December 2021, in the government led by Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey. She studied law at Humboldt University of Berlin and earned a doctorate at the University of Bremen’s Center for European Legal Policy, with a thesis on environmental refugees. After her legal clerkship, she worked as a lawyer at an LGBT counseling center in Berlin and helped refugees. She has also taught law in social work, including two semesters as a substitute professor at Koblenz University of Applied Sciences and, since October 2019, as a professor of social work at Evangelische Hochschule Berlin, focusing on law and society. Kreck was a federal co-spokesperson for Left Youth Solid in 2007–08 and twice ran for youth policy spokesperson, but did not win. In October 2019 she was proposed as a justice on the Berlin State Constitution Court, but did not receive the required two-thirds majority. After the 2021 Berlin state election she became Senator for Justice, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination in the Giffey administration. She is linked to the libertarian socialist Emancipatory Left within The Left and served on the editorial board of the group’s former journal Prague Spring. Kreck supports prison abolition.