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List of LGBTQ politicians in Germany

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

Birth year Name Party Home state Position Note
1970 Michael Roth SPD Hesse Chair of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee, MP former Minister of State for Europe

Former

Birth year Name Party Home state Position Note
1952 Barbara Hendricks SPD North Rhine-Westphalia former Federal Environment Minister, former MP
1980 Jens Spahn CDU North Rhine-Westphalia MP, former Federal Minister of Health
1961 Guido Westerwelle FDP North Rhine-Westphalia MP, former Foreign Minister

Bundestag/Reichstag

Since 1949

Incumbent

Birth year Name Party Home state Sexual and gender identity Position Note
1965 Kay Gottschalk AfD North Rhine-Westphalia

Gay

Member of the Bundestag former Deputy Leader of the AfD
1965 Ursula Schauws Greens North Rhine-Westphalia Lesbian Member of the Bundestag
1966 Jürgen Lenders FDP Hesse

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1968 Matthias Miersch SPD Lower Saxony

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1969 Stefan Kaufmann CDU Baden-Württemberg

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1973 Falko Droßmann SPD Hamburg

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1970 Michael Roth SPD Hesse

Gay

Chair of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee, MP former Minister of State for Europe
1974 Lars Castellucci SPD Baden-Württemberg

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1976 Timon Gremmels SPD Hesse

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1977 Tessa Ganserer Greens Bavaria Lesbian
Transgender 		Member of the Bundestag
1979 Alice Weidel AfD Baden-Württemberg Lesbian Member of the Bundestag federal party chairwoman of the AfD
1979 Sven Lehmann Greens North Rhine-Westphalia

Gay

Commissioner for LGBTIQ+ Equality, MP
1980 Jens Spahn CDU North Rhine-Westphalia

Gay

Member of the Bundestag former Federal Minister of Health
1984 Johannes Arlt SPD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1984 Andreas Audretsch Greens Berlin

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1984 Falko Mohrs SPD Lower Saxony

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1985 Matthias Mieves SPD Rhineland-Palatinate

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1985 Wolfgang Stefinger CSU Bavaria

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1986 Jens Brandenburg FDP Baden-Württemberg

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1989 Kevin Kühnert SPD Berlin

Gay

Member of the Bundestag former Juso federal chairman
1989 Konstantin Kuhle FDP Lower Saxony

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1989 Sepp Müller CDU Saxony-Anhalt

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1990 Marlene Schönberger Greens Bavaria Lesbian Member of the Bundestag
1991 Takis Mehmet Ali SPD Baden-Württemberg

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1992 Jan Plobner SPD Bavaria

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1994 Carlos Kasper SPD Saxony

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1994 Nyke Slawik Greens North Rhine-Westphalia

Transgender

Member of the Bundestag
1994 Ricarda Lang Greens Baden-Württemberg Bisexual Member of the Bundestag federal party chairwoman of the Greens
1996 Bruno Hönel Greens Schleswig-Holstein

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1997 Max Lucks Greens North Rhine-Westphalia

Gay

Member of the Bundestag
1998 Emilia Fester Greens Lower Saxony Bisexual Member of the Bundestag

Former

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

Before 1949

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

State-level

Since 1949

Incumbent

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 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
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

Former

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

Members of the European Parliament

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

Former

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

Municipal-level

Birth year Name Party Name of the polity Level Position Note
1959 Richard Arnold CDU Schwäbisch Gmünd Municipality Mayor
1960 Peter Hinze SPD Emmerich am Rhein 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
1962 Pit Clausen SPD Bielefeld Municipality Mayor
1964 Monika Herrmann Greens Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg City borough Borough Mayor
1967 Michael Ebling SPD Mainz Municipality Mayor
1968 Helmut Metzner FDP
1970 Torsten Ilg FWK Cologne Municipality City Councilor
1973 Thomas Kufen CDU Essen Municipality Mayor
1973 Christian Vorländer SPD Munich
1974 Sven Gerich SPD Wiesbaden 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
Robert Kühn SPD Bad Wiessee Municipality
Sven Partheil-Böhnke FDP Timmendorf Municipality Mayor
Neidhard Varnhorn CDU Cloppenburg Municipality Mayor

Former

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
1961 Hermann Brem Greens Munich former chairman of the Young Liberals
1968 Andreas Matthae SPD Berlin-Kreuzberg City borough Borough Mayor
Michael Gabel Pro Cologne Cologne Municipality City Councilor
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBTQ_politicians_in_Germany