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
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

List of LGBTQ politicians in Germany

Federal Cabinet

Former

Bundestag/Reichstag

Since 1949

Incumbent

Former

Before 1949

State-level

Since 1949

Incumbent

Former

Members of the European Parliament

Former

Municipal-level

Former

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