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
| 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] |
Bundestag/Reichstag
Since 1949
Incumbent
| 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] |
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 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 |
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 | 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 | |
| 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 |
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 | |
| 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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