19 Facts About Luisa Neubauer

Luisa-Marie Neubauer was born on 21 April 1996 and is a German climate activist, politician, and author.

Luisa Neubauer is one of the main organizers of the school strike for climate movement in Germany, where it is commonly referred to under its alternative name Fridays for Future.

Luisa Neubauer was born in Hamburg as the youngest of four siblings.

Luisa Neubauer sensitized Luisa Neubauer to the climate problem and gave her her share of the taz cooperative.

Luisa Neubauer grew up in Hamburg's Iserbrook district and completed her high school diploma in 2014 at the Marion-Donhoff-Gymnasium in the affluent Blankenese neighborhood.

Luisa Neubauer has been a youth ambassador of the non-governmental organization ONE since 2016.

Luisa Neubauer was active for the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, 350.

Luisa Neubauer was an organizer and spokesperson for the first school climate strike on 14December 2018, which made use of the social media hashtag.

Luisa Neubauer had earlier separated herself from public statements by the Fridays for Future international board regarding the military action by Israel.

Luisa Neubauer assessed the 2019 European elections as a key event to motivate the European youth to protect climate.

At the EU summit in Sibiu in May 2019, Luisa Neubauer joined other climate activists in meeting Emmanuel Macron and eight other EU leaders.

Luisa Neubauer, writing in Der Spiegel in December2024, argues that the political backsliding on climate protection in Germany over the past two years or so is the responsibility of everyone.

In January2025, Luisa Neubauer told The Guardian newspaper that "like many, I did buy into the idea that big catastrophes would do something to politics" and believed that "there was a democratic responsibility that would live through coalition [government] changes and climate changes".

Luisa Neubauer indicated the biggest failure of Fridays for Future Germany was not to embed climate policy across the political spectrum "in a way that it could sustainably live on without us".

Luisa Neubauer argued that "it is no longer green technologies that are the issue, but the fight for democracy and truth" and furthermore that "if there's no shared reality in which we operate, it will be impossible to move forward with the climate transition".

Luisa Neubauer received negative press coverage for her past flights to countries all around the world.

Luisa Neubauer responded that any criticism of her personal consumption distracts from larger structural and political issues.

Luisa Neubauer said further, this kind of criticism expressed a generational conflict and a question of power that pits private ecological behavior against larger political issues, such as rising CO2 levels and the general amount of air travel.

Luisa Neubauer herself confessed to eating largely vegan, flying less often than before, and compensating for her flights.