List of participants in the Merz cabinet coalition negotiations

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Signing of the coalition agreement for the 21st legislative period of the German Bundestag on 5 May 2025 in Berlin.

The list of participants in the coalition negotiations between CDU/CSU and SPD in 2025 lists the people who participated in the coalition negotiations between the parties after the 2025 German federal election.

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Negotiations to form a coalition began on 13 March 2025, and were successfully concluded on 9 April 2025.

The outcome of the coalition negotiations led to the formation of the Merz cabinet.

Round of party executives

CDU/CSU

SPD

Negotiating group

The majority of the negotiating team at the signing of the coalition agreement for the 21st legislative period of the Bundestag. 2025-05-05 Unterzeichnung des Koalitionsvertrages der 21. Wahlperiode des Bundestages (Martin Rulsch) 117.jpg
The majority of the negotiating team at the signing of the coalition agreement for the 21st legislative period of the Bundestag.

CDU/CSU

SPD

Steering Group

CDU/CSU

SPD

Working groups

Sixteen working groups will be formed, [2] each with 16 participants. [3] [4] [5] The respective offices refer to the time of the negotiations, whereby for federal politicians, previous offices refer to the outgoing 20th legislative period and subsequent offices denote immediately following positions in the 21st legislative period. The designations MdB, MdL, MdA, MdHB, MdBB and MdEP indicate membership in the respective parliaments

Interior, Law, Migration and Integration

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Günter Krings MdB,

legal policy spokesperson

 Andrea Lindholz MdB,

previously Deputy Parliamentary Group Leader, subsequently Vice President of the German Bundestag

 Dirk Wiese MdB,

Previously Deputy Parliamentary Group Leader, subsequently First Parliamentary Secretary

Other members Sebastian Lechner MdL,

Chairman of the CDU Lower Saxony

 Silke Launert MdB,

Previously Chair of the Committee on the European Union, subsequently State Secretary in the Ministry of Research

 Reem Alabali-Radovan MdB,

previously Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, subsequently Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development

Roman Poseck  [ de ],

Hessian Interior Minister

 Joachim Herrmann MdL,

Bavarian Interior Minister

 Daniela Behrens  [ de ],

Lower Saxony's Interior Minister

Armin Schuster,

Saxony's Interior Minister

 Johannes Fechner MdB,

Parliamentary Managing Director

Alexander Throm MdB,

domestic policy spokesperson

 Andy Grote  [ DE ] MdHB,

Hamburg's Senator of the Interior

Nina Warken MdB,

previously Parliamentary Managing Director, subsequently Federal Minister of Health

 Ralf Stegner MdB,

former Minister of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein

Carmen Wegge MdB,

legal policy spokesperson

Economy, industry, tourism

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Jens Spahn MdB,

previously deputy parliamentary group leader, subsequently parliamentary group leader

 Hansjörg Durz MdB Alexander Schweitzer MdL,

Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate

Other members Colette Boos-John,

Minister of Economic Affairs in Thuringia

 Alois Rainer MdB,

Previously Chairman of the Finance Committee, subsequently Federal Minister of Agriculture

 Verena Hubertz MdB,

previously Deputy Parliamentary Group Leader, subsequently Federal Minister for Construction

Jens Giesecke MdEP Michaela Kaniber MdL,

Bavarian Minister of Agriculture

 Franziska Giffey MdA,

Berlin Senator for Economic Affairs

Julia Klöckner MdB,

Previously economic policy spokesperson, subsequently President of the Bundestag

 Kaweh Mansoori,

Hessian Minister of Economic Affairs

Christian Freiherr von Stetten MdB,

Spokesperson for small and medium-sized enterprises

 Sarah Philipp MdL,

Co-Vorsitz SPD Nordrhein-Westfalen

Stephan Toscani MdL,

Chairman of the CDU Saarland

 Sebastian Roloff MdB
Manja Schüle,

Brandenburg Minister of Science

Digital

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Manuel Hagel MdL,

Chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg

 Reinhard Brandl MdB,

Previously digital politics spokesperson, subsequently parliamentary managing director of the CSU state group

 Armand Zorn MdB,

Previously deputy spokesperson for financial policy, subsequently deputy parliamentary group leader

Other members Ronja Kemmer MdB Jonas Geissler MdB Christian Pegel  [ de ],

Head of the State Chancellery of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Catarina dos Santos-Wintz MdB Judith Gerlach MdL,

Bavarian Health Minister

 Metin Hakverdi MdB
Nadine Schön MdB until 2025 Ronja Endres,

Co-chair of the SPD Bavaria

Dirk Schrödter  [ de ],

Head of the State Chancellery of Schleswig-Holstein

 Fedor Rose  [ de ],

Head of the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate

Kristina Sinemus  [ de ],

Hessian Minister for Digital Affairs

 Carolin Wagner MdB
Tiemo Wölken MdEP

Transport and infrastructure, construction and housing

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Ina Scharrenbach MdL,

Minister for Construction North Rhine-Westphalia

 Ulrich Lange MdB,

subsequently State Secretary Ministry of Transport

 Klara Geywitz MdB (Head of Construction),

ormer Federal Minister for Construction

Sören Bartol MdB (Head of Transport),

former State Secretary, Ministry of Construction and Transport

Other members Thomas Bareiß MdB Michael Kießling MdB Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler MdL,

Chairwoman of the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate

Jan-Marco Luczak MdB,

previous spokesperson for construction policy

 Christian Bernreiter MdL,

Bavarian Minister of Construction

 Isabel Cademartori MdB,

previous transport policy spokesperson

Christoph Ploß MdB Elisabeth Kaiser MdB,

previously State Secretary in the Ministry of Construction, subsequently Commissioner for Eastern Germany

Patrick Schnieder MdB,

subsequently Minister of Transport

 Karen Pein  [ de ],

Hamburg Senator for Urban Development

Felix Schreiner MdB Philipp Türmer  [ de ]

Juso chairman

Work and Social Affairs

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Carsten Linnemann MdB,

General Secretary of the CDU

 Stephan Stracke MdB Katja Mast MdB,

Previously First Parliamentary Secretary, subsequently State Secretary at the Ministry of Labour

Other members Marc Biadacz MdB Peter Aumer MdB Dagmar Schmidt MdB
Ines Claus MdL,

CDU parliamentary group leader in Hesse

 Ulrike Scharf  [ de ] MdL,

Bavarian Minister of Social Affairs

 Kerstin Griese MdB,

State Secretary, Ministry of Labour

Gitta Connemann MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs

 Cansel Kiziltepe MdA,

Berlin Senator for Labour

Stefan Nacke MdB Annika Klose MdB
Dennis Radtke MdEP,

CDA Federal Chairman

 Kathrin Michel MdB
Natalie Pawlik MdB,

Previously Commissioner for Resettlement Issues, subsequently Commissioner for Migration

Health and Care

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Karl-Josef Laumann MdL,

Health Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia

 Stephan Pilsinger MdB Katja Pähle MdL,

Parliamentary group leader Saxony-Anhalt

Other members Kerstin von der Decken,

Minister of Justice of Schleswig-Holstein

 Emmi Zeulner MdB Karl Lauterbach MdB,

former Federal Minister of Health

Albrecht Schütte  [ de ] MdL (Baden-Württemberg) Klaus Holetschek MdL,

Parliamentary group leader

 Sabine Dittmar MdB,

previously State Secretary, Ministry of Health

Tino Sorge MdB,

Previously health policy spokesperson, subsequently State Secretary, Ministry of Health

 Clemens Hoch  [ de ],

Minister of Health Rhineland-Palatinate

Diana Stolz  [ de ],

Hessian Minister of Health

 Petra Köpping MdL,

Saxony's Minister of Health

Hendrik Streeck MdB (since 2025),

former member of the Corona Expert Council

 Matthias Mieves MdB
Andreas Philippi,

Lower Saxony's Minister of Health

Family, women, youth, senior citizens and democracy

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Silvia Breher MdB,

Previously family policy spokesperson, subsequently State Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture

 Susanne Hierl MdB Serpil Midyatli MdL,

Chairwoman of the SPD Schleswig-Holstein

Other members Helge Benda Ralph Edelhäußer MdB Wiebke Esdar MdB,

Spokesperson for the Parlamentarische Linke

Conrad Clemens MdL,

Saxony Minister of Education

 Katrin Albsteiger,

Mayor of Neu-Ulm

Felix Döring MdB
Katharina Günther-Wünsch MdA,

Berlin Senator for Education

 Josephine Ortleb MdB,

previously Parliamentary Managing Director, subsequently Vice President of the Bundestag

Bettina Wiesmann MdB Jochen Ott MdL,

Parliamentary group leader North Rhine-Westphalia

Mareike Lotte Wulf MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Ministry for Families

 Svenja Stadler MdB
Maja Wallstein MdB

Education, research and innovation

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Karin Prien,

Previously Minister of Education of Schleswig-Holstein, subsequently Federal Minister of Education

 Katrin Staffler MdB,

Previously education policy spokesperson, subsequently commissioner for nursing care

 Oliver Kaczmarek MdB,

Previous education policy spokesperson

Other members Sebastian Gemkow MdL,

Saxony Minister of Science

 Thomas Silberhorn MdB Stefanie Hubig,

Previously Minister of Education of Rhineland-Palatinate, subsequently Federal Minister of Justice

Thomas Jarzombek MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Ministry of Digitalization

 Markus Blume MdL,

Bavarian Minister of Science

 Bettina Martin  [ de ] MdL,

Minister of Science in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Gordon Schnieder MdL,

Chairman of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate

 Holger Mann MdB
Christian Tischner MdL,

Thuringian Minister of Education

 Falko Mohrs,

Lower Saxony's Minister of Science

Johannes Winkel MdB (since 2025),

Chairman of Junge Union

Andreas Stoch MdL,

Chairman of the SPD Baden-Württemberg

Ruppert Stüwe MdB

Bureaucracy reduction, state modernization, modern justice

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Philipp Amthor MdB,

Previously Secretary General of the CDU Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, subsequently State Secretary of the Ministry for Digital Affairs

 Daniela Ludwig MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Ministry of the Interior

 Sonja Eichwede MdB,

spokesperson for legal affairs

Other members Ralph Brinkhaus MdB,

former parliamentary group leader (2018–2022)

 Tobias Winkler MdB Nancy Faeser MdB,

former Federal Minister of the Interior

Daniel Caspary MdEP,

Chairman of the CDU/CSU Group

 Florian Herrmann MdL,

Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery

 Andreas Bovenschulte,

Mayor of Bremen

Sandra Gerken  [ de ],

Representative of the State of Schleswig-Holstein to the Federal Government

 Sebastian Hartmann MdB,

Previously domestic policy spokesperson, subsequently State Secretary, Ministry of Defence

Hendrik Hoppenstedt MdB,

Parliamentary Managing Director

 Burkhard Jung,

Mayor of Leipzig

Franziska Hoppermann MdB,

CDU treasurer

 Esra Limbacher MdB,

Chairman of the SPD Saarland

Kathrin Wahlmann,

Lower Saxony's Minister of Justice

Municipalities, sports and volunteering

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Christina Stumpp MdB,

Deputy Secretary General

 Stephan Mayer MdB Thorsten Kornblum  [ de ],

Mayor of Braunschweig

Other members Christian Hirte MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Ministry of Transport

 Alexander Engelhard MdB Rasha Nasr MdB
Thomas Kufen,

Mayor of Essen

Franz Löffler  [ de ],

District President of Upper Palatinate

 Martin Dulig MdL,

Saxony's Minister of Economic Affairs

Florian Müller MdB Beate Kimmel  [ de ],

Mayor of Kaiserslautern

Sepp Müller MdB Mahmut Özdemir MdB,

former State Secretary, Ministry of the Interior

Johannes Steiniger MdB,

Generalsekretär CDU Rheinland-Pfalz

 Sabine Poschmann MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Ministry of Construction

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter MdB,

previously State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior, subsequently State Secretary at the Ministry of the Environment

Rural areas, agriculture, food, environment

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Steffen Bilger MdB,

previously deputy parliamentary group leader, subsequently first parliamentary managing director

 Artur Auernhammer MdB,

Previously, agricultural policy spokesperson

 Franziska Kersten MdB
Other members Hermann Färber MdB,

Chairman of the Agriculture Committee

 Martina Englhardt-Kopf MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture

 Carsten Träger MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Ministry of the Environment

Marco Mohrmann  [ de ] MdL,

General Secretary of the CDU Lower Saxony, Coordinator of Agricultural Policy, Parliamentary Group Spokesperson

 Günther Felßner  [ de ],

Chairman of the Bavarian Farmers' Association

 Till Backhaus MdL,

Minister of Agriculture Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Christine Schneider MdEP Nadine Heselhaus MdB,

Previously a consumer policy spokesperson

Sven Schulze MdL,

Minister of Agriculture of Saxony-Anhalt, Chairman of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt

 Helmut Kleebank MdB
Albert Stegemann MdB Isabel Mackensen-Geis MdB
Maria Noichl MdEP,

Federal Chairwoman of the SPD Women's Group

Foreign Affairs and Defence, Development Cooperation and Human Rights

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Johann Wadephul MdB,

Previously deputy parliamentary group leader, subsequently Federal Foreign Minister

 Florian Hahn MdB,

Previously defence policy spokesperson, subsequently State Secretary at the Foreign Ministry

 Svenja Schulze MdB,

former Federal Development Minister

Other members Michael Brand MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Ministry for Families

 Thomas Erndl MdB,

Spokesperson for International Affairs

 Nils Schmid MdB,

State Secretary, Ministry of Defence

Serap Güler MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Foreign Ministry

 Wolfgang Stefinger MdB Sanae Abdi MdB,

Previous development policy spokesperson

Jürgen Hardt MdB,

Foreign policy spokesperson

 Falko Droßmann MdB,

Previously defense policy spokesperson

Henning Otte MdB Gabriela Heinrich MdB,

Deputy parliamentary group leader

Norbert Röttgen MdB,

Former candidate for party chairmanship (2020/2022)

 Siemtje Möller MdB,

previously State Secretary, Ministry of Defence

Thomas Rachel Marja-Liisa Völlers MdB,

Spokesperson for the Seeheimer Kreis

Frank Schwabe MdB,

Previously Commissioner for Religious Freedom, subsequently State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice

Europe

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Patricia Lips MdB,

Deputy parliamentary group leader

 Alexander Radwan MdB Katarina Barley MEP,

Vice President of the European Parliament

Other members Knut Abraham MdB Angelika Niebler MdEP,

deputy party chair

 Adis Ahmetovic MdB
Gunter Krichbaum MdB,

subsequent Minister of State for Europe

 Eric Beißwenger  [ de ] MdL,

Bavarian State Minister for Europe

 Dietmar Nietan MdB,

Federal Treasurer of the SPD

David McAllister MEP,

Deputy Chairman of the EVP

René Repasi MEP,

Chairman of the SPD group in the S&D-Fraktion

Wiebke Winter MdBB,

Deputy parliamentary group leader Bremen

 Johannes Schraps MdB
Paul Ziemiak MdB,

Secretary General of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia

 Derya Türk-Nachbaur MdB
Thomas Vaupel

Culture and Media

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Christiane Schenderlein MdB,

Subsequently , State Minister for Sport

 Volker Ullrich MdB until 2025 Carsten Brosda,

Hamburg's Senator for Culture

Other members Joe Chialo,

Berlin Senator for Culture

 Alexander Hoffmann MdB,

subsequently Chairman of the CSU State Group

 Heike Raab,

Rhineland-Palatinate representative to the Federal Government

Ansgar Heveling MdB Julia Lehner  [ de ],

First Deputy Mayor of Nuremberg

 Hakan Demir MdB
Nathanael Liminski,

Head of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia

 Timon Gremmels,

Hessian Minister of Culture

Jan Redmann MdL,

Chairman of the CDU Brandenburg

 Helge Lindh MdB
Sabine Verheyen MdEP,

First Vice President of the European Parliament

 Martin Rabanus MdB
Alexander Vogt MdL,

Deputy Parliamentary Group Leader North Rhine-Westphalia

Climate and energy

Role [6] CDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Andreas Jung MdB,

deputy party chairman

 Martin Huber MdL,

Secretary General

 Olaf Lies MdL,

Lower Saxony's Minister of Economic Affairs

Other members Thomas Gebhart MdB Anja Weisgerber MdB Nina Scheer MdB
Jan Heinisch MdL,

Deputy Parliamentary Group Leader North Rhine-Westphalia

 Andreas Lenz MdB Jakob Blankenburg MdB
Mark Helfrich MdB Delara Burkhardt MdB
Tilman Kuban MdB Ulf Kämpfer,

Mayor of Kiel

Lars Rohwer MdB Johann Saathoff MdB,

previously State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior, subsequently State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development

Dietmar Woidke MdL,

Minister-President of Brandenburg

Budget, Finances and Taxes

RoleCDUCSUSPD
Chief negotiator Mathias Middelberg MdB,

Deputy parliamentary group leader

 Florian Oßner MdB Dennis Rohde MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Ministry of Finance

Other members Fritz Güntzler MdB Mechthilde Wittmann MdB Doris Ahnen MdL,

Finance Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate

Christian Haase MdB,

Federal Chairman of KPV  [ de ]

 Albert Füracker MdL,

Bavarian Interior Minister

 Bettina Hagedorn MdB
Matthias Hauer MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Ministry of Research

 Tim Klüssendorf MdB

Spokesperson for the Parliamentary Left, subsequently General Secretary of the SPD

Ralph Alexander Lorz  [ de ] MdL,

Hessian Finance Minister

 Frank Meyer  [ de ],

Mayor of Krefeld

Marcus Optendrenk MdL,

North Rhine-Westphalian Finance Minister

 Michael Schrodi MdB,

subsequently State Secretary, Ministry of Finance

Jakob von Weizsäcker MdL,

Saarland Finance Minister

References

  1. ↑ "Sondierungsgespräche: Das sind die Teams von SPD und CDU". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  2. ↑ "Koalitionsverhandlungen sollen am Donnerstag starten". tagesschau.de (in German). 2025-03-10. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  3. ↑ "256 Verhandler sollen schwarz-roten Koalitionsvertrag ausarbeiten". Spiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  4. ↑ "Koalitionsverhandlungen: Arbeitsgruppen sollen feststehen". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-11.
  5. ↑ "Zuständigkeiten der SPD-Arbeitsgruppen für die Koalitionsverhandlungen" (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-12.
  6. ↑ "Malte Kreutzfeldt von Table.Media auf BlueSky" . Retrieved 2025-03-12.

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