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List of LGBTQ politicians in Germany

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The following is a list of gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender individuals who have been elected as members of the Bundestag, European Union, state parliaments, local parliaments, to positions of leadership, or parliaments of the entities that preceded the modern Federal Republic of Germany and its states.

Federal Cabinet

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Portrait Name Position Term Party Notes Ref.
Guido Westerwelle

(1961–2016)

 Vice-Chancellor of Germany 2009–2011 Free Democratic Party [1][2]
Minister for Foreign Affairs 2009–2013
Barbara Hendricks

(born 1952)

 Federal Minister for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety 2013–2018 Social Democratic Party of Germany [3][4]
Michael Roth

(born 1970)

 Minister of State for Europe at the Federal Foreign Office 2013–2021 Social Democratic Party of Germany [5][6]
Jens Spahn

(born 1980)

 Federal Minister of Health 2018–2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany [7][8]
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Bundestag/Reichstag

Since 1949

Incumbent

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Portrait Name Position Term Party Notes Ref.
Michael Roth

(born 1970)

 Minister of State for Europe at the Federal Foreign Office 1998–2025 Social Democratic Party of Germany [5][6]
Matthias Miersch

(born 1968)

 Member of the Bundestag 2005–present Social Democratic Party of Germany [9][10]
Ursula Schauws

(born 1966)

 Member of the Bundestag 2013–present Alliance 90/The Greens [11]
Kay Gottschalk

(born 1965)

 Member of the Bundestag 2017–present Alternative for Germany former Deputy Leader of the AfD [12][13][14]
Jürgen Lenders

(born 1966)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–2025 Free Democratic Party [15][16][17]
Stefan Kaufmann

(born 1969)

 Member of the Bundestag 2009–2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany First openly gay man in the CDU [18][19][20][21]
2024–2025
Falko Droßmann

(born 1973)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–present SPD [22][23]
Lars Castellucci

(born 1974)

 Member of the Bundestag 2013–present SPD [24][25][26]
Timon Gremmels

(born 1976)

 Member of the Bundestag 2017–2024 SPD [27][28]
Tessa Ganserer

(born 1977)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–2025 Greens [29][30][31][32]
Alice Weidel

(born 1979)

 Member of the Bundestag 2017–present AfD federal party chairwoman of the AfD [33][34][35]
Sven Lehmann

(born 1979)

 Member of the Bundestag 2017–present Greens [36][37][38]
Federal Government Commissioner for the Acceptance of Sexual and Gender Diversity 2022–2025
Jens Spahn

(born 1980)

 Member of the Bundestag 2002–present Christian Democratic Union of Germany [7][8]
Johannes Arlt

(born 1984)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–2024 SPD [39][40][41][42]
Andreas Audretsch

(born 1984)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–present Greens [43][44]
Falko Mohrs

(born 1984)

 Member of the Bundestag 2017–2022 SPD [45][46][47]
Wolfgang Stefinger

(born 1985)

 Member of the Bundestag 2013–present CSU [48][49]
Kevin Kühnert

(born 1989)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–2025 SPD former Juso federal chairman [50][51][52][53]
Konstantin Kuhle

(born 1989)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–2025 FDP [54][55][56]
Sepp Müller

(born 1989)

 Member of the Bundestag 2017–present CDU [57][48]
Marlene Schönberger

(born 1990)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–present Greens [58][59][60]
Takis Mehmet Ali

(born 1991)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–2024 SPD [61][62][63]
Carlos Kasper

(born 1994)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–2025 SPD [64][65][66]
Nyke Slawik

(born 1994)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–present Greens [67][68][69]
Ricarda Lang

(born 1994)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–present Greens federal party chairwoman of the Greens [70][71]
Bruno Hönel

(born 1996)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–present Greens [72][73][74][75]
Max Lucks

(born 1997)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–present Greens [76][77]
Emilia Fester

(born 1998)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–2025 Greens [78][79][80]
Lin Lindner

(born 1994)

 Member of the Bundestag 2025–present Die Linke [81][82]
Lisa Schubert

(born 2002)

 Member of the Bundestag 2025–present Die Linke [83][84]
Felix Banaszak

(born 1989)

 Member of the Bundestag 2021–present Alliance 90/The Greens [85][86]
Tobias Ebenberger

(born 1990)

 Member of the Bundestag 2025–present Alternative for Germany [87][88]
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Former

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Birth year Name Party Home state Position Note
1941 Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin Greens former Member of the Bundestag
1947 Jörg van Essen FDP North Rhine-Westphalia former Member of the Bundestag
1949 Thomas Sattelberger FDP Bavaria former Member of the Bundestag
1952 Barbara Hendricks SPD North Rhine-Westphalia former Federal Environment Minister, former MP
1952 Christian Schenk PDS, Greens former Member of the Bundestag came out as trans after tenure ended
1952 Herbert Rusche Greens, Pirates Hesse former Member of the Bundestag
1953 Karl-Heinz Brunner SPD Bavaria former Member of the Bundestag
1954 Reinhold Robbe SPD Lower Saxony former Member of the Bundestag
1956 Birgitt Bender Greens Baden-Württemberg former Member of the Bundestag
1957 Karin Binder Left Party former Member of the Bundestag
1957 Uwe Schummer CDU North Rhine-Westphalia former Member of the Bundestag
1960 Volker Beck Greens North Rhine-Westphalia former Member of the Bundestag
1960 Bettina Herlitzius Greens North Rhine-Westphalia former Member of the Bundestag
1961 Guido Westerwelle FDP North Rhine-Westphalia former Foreign Minister, former MP
1962 Harald Petzold Left Party Brandenburg former Member of the Bundestag
1963 Anja Hajduk Greens Hamburg former Member of the Bundestag
1963 Michael Hartmann SPD Rhineland-Palatinate former Member of the Bundestag
1963 Johannes Kahrs SPD Hamburg former Member of the Bundestag
1964 Achim Kessler Left Party Hesse former Member of the Bundestag
1965 Bernd Fabritius CSU Bavaria former Member of the Bundestag
1966 Lutz Heilmann Left Party Schleswig-Holstein former Member of the Bundestag
1967 Michael Kauch FDP North Rhine-Westphalia former Member of the Bundestag
1968 Wolfgang Wetzel Greens Saxony former Member of the Bundestag
1969 Sebastian Edathy SPD Lower Saxony former Member of the Bundestag
1972 Gerhard Schick Greens Baden-Württemberg former Member of the Bundestag
1973 Sabine Jünger Left Party Mecklenburg-Vorpommern former Member of the Bundestag
1975 Matthias Höhn Left Party Saxony-Anhalt former Member of the Bundestag
1976 Doris Achelwilm Left Party Bremen former Member of the Bundestag
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Before 1949

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Birth year Name Party Home state Position Note
1854 Friedrich Alfred Krupp FkP Prussia former Member of the Reichstag
1887 Ernst Röhm NSFP, NSDAP Bavaria former member of the Reich Defense Council, former MP former leader of the SA
1897 Edmund Heines NSDAP Bavaria former Member of the Reichstag
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State-level

Since 1949

Incumbent

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Birth year Name Party State Position Note
1962 Farid Müller Greens Hamburg Member of the Bürgerschaft
1962 Detlev Schulz-Hendel Greens Lower Saxony Member of the Landtag
1964 Frank-Christian Hansel AfD Berlin Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1966 Heiner Garg FDP Schleswig-Holstein Member of the Landtag State Chairman of the FDP Schleswig-Holstein, former State Minister
1970 Carsten Schatz Left Party Berlin Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1971 Arndt Klocke Greens North Rhine-Westphalia Member of the Landtag
1973 Kai Klose Greens Hesse Member of the Landtag
1973 Arne Platzbecker SPD Hamburg Member of the Bürgerschaft
1973 Jennifer Schubert Greens Thuringia Member of the Landtag
1974 Thomas de Jesus Fernandes AfD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Member of the Landtag
1974 Klaus Lederer Left Party Berlin Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1975 Daniel Born SPD Baden-Württemberg Member of the Landtag
1975 Daniel Wesener Greens Berlin Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1977 Fabian Kirsch SPD Rhineland-Palatinate Member of the Landtag
1979 Katja Meier Greens Saxony Member of the Landtag
1979 Jan Redmann CDU Brandenburg Member of the Landtag
1979 Sebastian Walter Greens Berlin Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1980 Stefan Evers CDU Berlin Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1980 Werner Graf Greens Berlin Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1981 Sven Tritschler AfD North Rhine-Westphalia Member of the Landtag
1981 Matthias Vogler AfD Bavaria Member of the Landtag
1982 Josefine Paul Greens North Rhine-Westphalia Member of the Landtag
1982 Dennis Paustian-Döscher Greens Hamburg Member of the Bürgerschaft
1983 Maximilian Böltl CSU Bavaria Member of the Landtag
1985 René Gögge Greens Hamburg Member of the Bürgerschaft
1986 Marc Vallendar AfD Berlin Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1989 Vanessa Gronemann Greens Hesse Member of the Landtag
1990 Sascha Haas SPD Saarland Member of the Landtag
1990 Moritz Körner FDP North Rhine-Westphalia Member of the Landtag
1991 Simon Kuchinke SPD Hamburg Member of the Bürgerschaft
1992 Vasili Franco Greens Berlin Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1995 Felix Martin Greens Hesse Member of the Landtag
1996 Louis Krüger Greens Berlin Member of the Landtag
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Former

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Birth year Name Party State Position Note
1939 Helga Schuchardt FDP, SPD Hamburg/Lower Saxony formerly held multiple ministerial positions in both states
1948 Stephan Holthoff-Pförtner CDU North Rhine-Westphalia former State Minister for European Affairs, former MP
1949 Ute Pape SPD Hamburg former Senator, former MP
1950 Anne Klein Greens, Independent Berlin former Senator, former MP
1953 Klaus Wowereit SPD Berlin former Mayor
1955 Ole von Beust CDU Hamburg former First Mayor of Hamburg, former MP
1954 Roger Kusch CDU Hamburg former Justice Senator
1959 Karin Wolff CDU Hesse former Minister of Education
1960 Anja Kofbinger Greens Berlin former Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1960 Peter Kurth CDU, Independent Berlin former State Minister of Finance, former MP former candidate for mayor of Cologne
1960 Lutz Johannsen SPD Hamburg former Member of the Bürgerschaft
1960 Albert Eckert Greens, Independent Berlin former Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1961 Sibyll-Anka Klotz Greens Berlin former Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1964 Dietrich Wersich CDU Hamburg former Member of the Bürgerschaft
1966 Hakan Taş Left Party Berlin former Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1968 Markus Klaer CDU Berlin former Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1968 Andreas Matthae SPD Berlin former Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1970 Alexander Tassis AfD Bremen former Member of the Bürgerschaft former leader of the Alternative Homosexuals
1971 Dirk Behrendt Greens Berlin former Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1972 Chris Bollenbach CDU North Rhine-Westphalia former Member of the Landtag
1972 Gerwald Claus-Brunner Pirates Berlin former Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1973 Holger Arppe AfD, Independent Mecklenburg-Vorpommern former Member of the Landtag former city councilor in Rostock, was expelled from his party
1973 Roland Heintze CDU Hamburg former Member of the Bürgerschaft
1973 Sabine Jünger Left Party Mecklenburg-Vorpommern former Member of the Landtag
1973 Jan Stöß SPD, Independent Berlin former Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus former SPD state chairman
1973 Marc Ratajczak CDU North Rhine-Westphalia former Member of the Landtag
1975 Nicola Böcker-Giannini SPD Berlin former member of Abgeordnetenhaus Berlin
1975 Matthias Höhn Left Party Saxony former Member of the Landtag
1975 Sascha Steuer CDU Berlin former Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1976 David Profit Greens Rhineland-Palatinate former Member of the Landtag
1977 Philipp-Sebastian Kühn SPD Hamburg former Member of the Bürgerschaft
1978 Andreas Baum Pirates Berlin former Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1978 Tom Schreiber SPD Berlin former Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus
1979 Patrick Schreiber CDU Saxony former Member of the Landtag
1982 Robert Bläsing FDP Hamburg former Member of the Bürgerschaft
1984 Stefan Gruhner CDU Thuringia former Member of the Landtag
1986 Rasmus Andresen Greens Schleswig-Holstein former Member of the Landtag
1990 Elisabeth Kula Left Party Hesse former Member of the Landtag
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Members of the European Parliament

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Birth year Name Party Position Note
1986 Rasmus Andresen Greens Member of the European Parliament for Germany
1987 Terry Reintke Greens Leader of the Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament, MEP
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Former

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Birth year Name Party Position Note
1954 Lissy Gröner Greens former Member of the European Parliament for Germany
1970 Holger Krahmer FDP former Member of the European Parliament for Germany
1986 Felix Reda Pirates former Member of the European Parliament for Germany came out as trans after tenure ended
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Municipal-level

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Birth year Name Party Name of the polity Level Position Note
1959 Richard Arnold CDU Schwäbisch Gmünd Municipality Mayor
1960 Reinhard Naumann SPD Charlottenburg-Willmersdorf City borough Borough Mayor
1961 Thomas Niederbühl Pink List Munich Municipality City Councilor first openly gay city councilor to be elected from a LGBT political organization in Europe
1964 Monika Herrmann Greens Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg City borough Borough Mayor
1970 Torsten Ilg FWK Cologne Municipality City Councilor
1973 Thomas Kufen CDU Essen Municipality Mayor
1973 Christian Vorländer SPD Munich
1974 Marc Herter SPD Hamm Municipality Mayor
1978 Silvio Witt Independent Neubrandenburg Municipality Mayor
1984 Michael Adam SPD Bodenmais Municipality Mayor former Landrat of Regen
1986 Oliver Gortat FW Sipplingen Municipality Mayor
1989 Felix Heinrichs SPD Mönchengladbach Municipality Mayor
1990 Dominik Krause Greens Munich Municipality Mayor
1991 Andreas Zippel SPD Bayreuth Municipality Mayor
Robert Kühn SPD Bad Wiessee Municipality
Sven Partheil-Böhnke FDP Timmendorf Municipality Mayor
Dietmar Thönnes Independent Nottuln Municipality Mayor
Neidhard Varnhorn CDU Cloppenburg Municipality Mayor
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Former

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Birth year Name Party Name of the polity Level Position Note
1949 Alexander Miklosy Pink List Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt City borough Borough Mayor
1956 Rolf Ohler CDU Wiesbaden City Councilor
1959 Richard Arnold CDU Schwäbisch Gmünd Municipality Mayor
1960 Peter Hinze SPD Emmerich am Rhein Municipality Mayor
1961 Hermann Brem Greens Munich former chairman of the Young Liberals
1962 Pit Clausen SPD Bielefeld Municipality Mayor
1967 Michael Ebling SPD Mainz Municipality Mayor
1968 Andreas Matthae SPD Berlin-Kreuzberg City borough Borough Mayor
1968 Helmut Metzner FDP
1974 Sven Gerich SPD Wiesbaden Municipality Mayor
Michael Gabel Pro Cologne Cologne Municipality City Councilor
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