Lutz Lienenkämper

From 2005 to 2024, Lienenkämper was a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.^[2]

From 2009 to 2010, Lienenkämper served as State Minister of Construction and Transport in the government of Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Jürgen Rüttgers.^[3] From 2017 to 2022, he served as State Minister of Finance in the governments of successive Ministers-President Armin Laschet and Hendrik Wüst.^[3] In 2022, he served as acting minister of environment and agriculture.^[4]

In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the CDU and Green Party under Wüst following the 2022 state elections, Lienenkämper and Günter Krings led their party’s delegation in the working group on finances;^[5] their counterparts from the Green Party were Felix Banaszak and Sven Giegold.^[6]