List of participants in the Scholz cabinet coalition negotiations

Last updated July 12, 2025

The list of participants in the coalition negotiations between the SPD, Alliance 90/The Greens and the FDP in 2021 lists the people who took part in the coalition negotiations between the parties following the 2021 German federal election.^[1]

On 4 December 2021, the delegates of a special SPD party conference approved the traffic light coalition agreement for the Scholz cabinet with 98.8% of the votes, on 5 December 2021, the delegates of a largely digital extraordinary FDP federal party conference approved it with 92.24% of the votes and on 6 December 2021, 86% of the members of Alliance 90/The Greens approved it in a ballot vote.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Top group

SPD

Olaf Scholz, candidate for chancellor
Saskia Esken, SPD chairwoman
Norbert Walter-Borjans, SPD chairman
Rolf Mützenich, Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group
Lars Klingbeil, General Secretary of the SPD
Malu Dreyer, Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate
Manuela Schwesig, Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern & Chairwoman of the SPD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern^[5]

Greens

Annalena Baerbock, party leader
Robert Habeck, party chairman
Katrin Göring-Eckardt, parliamentary group leader
Anton Hofreiter, parliamentary group leader
Britta Haßelmann, parliamentary group manager
Claudia Roth, Vice President of the Bundestag
Ricarda Lang, deputy party leader
Michael Kellner, party manager
Winfried Kretschmann, Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg

FDP

The FDP was represented by its executive committee [ de ]:

Christian Lindner, FDP party chairman
Volker Wissing, FDP General Secretary
Wolfgang Kubicki, deputy FDP chairman
Nicola Beer, deputy FDP chairwoman
Johannes Vogel, deputy FDP chairman
Marco Buschmann, parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group
Lydia Hüskens [ de ], Chairwoman of the FDP Saxony-Anhalt
Michael Theurer, Chairman of the FDP Baden-Württemberg
Bettina Stark-Watzinger, parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group
Harald Christ [ de ], FDP treasurer
Moritz Körner, Member of the European Parliament

Working groups

22 working groups were formed, led by the chief negotiators of each party.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Modern State and Democracy

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Thomas Kutschaty	Britta Haßelmann	Konstantin Kuhle
Other members	Verena Hubertz	Till Steffen	Bernd Buchholz
	Dirk Wiese	Martin Hagen [ de ]	Matthias Frey [ de ]
	Marianne Schieder	Florian Stegmann [ de ]	Judith Pirscher [ de ]

Digital Innovations and Digital Infrastructure

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Jens Zimmermann	Malte Spitz	Andreas Pinkwart
Other members	Falko Mohrs	Anna Christmann	Mario Brandenburg
	Jan Pörksen [ de ]	Jan Philipp Albrecht	Manuel Höferlin
	Elvan Korkmaz-Emre	Alexandra Geese	Bernd Schlömer [ de ]

Innovation, Science and Research

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Thomas Losse-Müller	Katharina Fegebank	Lydia Hüskens [ de ]
Other members	Manja Schüle	Kai Gehring	Jens Brandenburg
	Wiebke Esdar	Angela Dorn-Rancke	Magnus Buhlert [ de ]
	Michael Müller	Dieter Janecek	Thomas Sattelberger

Business

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Carsten Schneider	Cem Özdemir	Michael Theurer
Other members	Peter Tschentscher	Katharina Dröge	Torsten Herbst
	Sabine Poschmann	Maik Außendorf	Reinhard Houben
	Bernd Westphal	Anna Cavazzini	Michael Kruse
	Johann Saathoff	Anna Kebschull [ de ]	Andreas Reichel [ de ]
	Gabriele Katzmarek	Claudia Müller	Daniela Schmitt

Environmental and nature conservation

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter	Steffi Lemke	Stefan Birkner
Other members	Florian von Brunn	Bettina Hofmann	Olaf in der Beek
	Carsten Träger	Jutta Paulus	Karlheinz Busen
	Isabel Mackensen-Geis	Axel Vogel [ de ]	Judith Skudelny

Agriculture and nutrition

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Till Backhaus	Renate Künast	Carina Konrad
Other members	Susanne Mittag	Priska Hinz	Andy Becht [ de ]
	Olaf Lies	Harald Ebner	Lukas Braun
	Franziska Kersten	Martin Häusling	Gero Hocker

Mobility

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Anke Rehlinger	Anton Hofreiter	Oliver Luksic
Other members	Dorothee Martin	Tarek Al-Wazir	Daniela Kluckert
	Andreas Bovenschulte	Matthias Gastel	Christof Rasche [ de ]
	Sören Bartol	Maike Schaefer	Daniela Schmitt

Climate, Energy, Transformation

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Matthias Miersch	Oliver Krischer	Lukas Köhler
Other members	Stephan Weil	Anne Spiegel	Nicole Bauer
	Svenja Schulze	Michael Bloss	Andreas Pinkwart
	Dietmar Woidke	Tobias Goldschmidt	René Rock [ de ]
	Delara Burkhardt	Ingrid Nestle	Michael Theurer
	Kathrin Michel	Jürgen Trittin	Sandra Weeser

Welfare state, basic security, pension

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Dagmar Schmidt	Sven Lehmann	Johannes Vogel
Other members	Melanie Leonhard	Markus Kurth	Dennys Bornhöft [ de ]
	Martin Rosemann	Stephanie Aeffner	Sylvia Bruns [ de ]
	Martin Dulig	Belit Onay	Heiner Garg
	Katja Mast	Udo Philipp [ de ]	Pascal Kober
	Rasha Nasr	Christiane Rohleder [ de ]

Work

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Hubertus Heil	Katharina Dröge	Johannes Vogel
Other members	Alexander Schweitzer	Frank Bsirske	Jens Brandenburg
	Yasmin Fahimi	Beate Müller-Gemmeke	Bernd Buchholz
	Jessica Rosenthal	Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn	Jens Teutrine

Building and Living

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Kevin Kühnert	Christian Kühn	Daniel Föst
Other members	Dorothee Stapelfeldt	Daniela Wagner	Christoph Dammermann [ de ]
	Bernhard Daldrup	Canan Bayram	Sebastian Körber [ de ]
	Claudia Tausend	Stephan Kühn	Hagen Reinhold

Health and Care

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Katja Pähle	Maria Klein-Schmeink	Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus
Other members	Bärbel Bas	Janosch Dahmen	Heiner Garg
	Karl Lauterbach	Manfred Lucha [ de ]	Andrew Ullmann
	Daniela Behrens [ de ]	Kordula Schulz-Asche	Nicole Westig

Education and Opportunities for All

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Andreas Stoch	Felix Banaszak	Jens Brandenburg
Other members	Ties Rabe	Theresa Schopper [ de ]	Björn Försterling
	Stefanie Hubig	Anke Erdmann [ de ]	Yvonne Gebauer
	Oliver Kaczmarek	Lasse Petersdotter [ de ]	Thomas Sattelberger

Children, families, seniors and youth

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Serpil Midyatli	Katrin Göring-Eckardt	Stephan Thomae
Other members	Sönke Rix	Ekin Deligöz	Jens Beeck
	Antje Draheim [ de ]	Katja Keul	Maren Jasper-Winter [ de ]
	Stefan Schwartze	Anja Stahmann [ de ]	Jens Teutrine

Cultural and media policy

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Carsten Brosda	Claudia Roth	Otto Fricke
Other members	Heike Raab	Theresia Bauer	Thomas Hacker
	Michelle Müntefering	Erhard Grundl	Thomas Nückel [ de ]
	Bettina Martin [ de ]	Tabea Rößner	Christopher Vorwerk

Internal Security, Civil Rights, Justice, Consumer Protection, Sports

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Christine Lambrecht	Konstantin von Notz	Wolfgang Kubicki
Other members	Katarina Barley	Irene Mihalic	Svenja Hahn
	Thomas Hitschler	Lamya Kaddor	Konstantin Kuhle
	Georg Maier	Sergey Lagodinsky	Matthias Schulenberg
	Mahmut Özdemir	Manuela Rottmann	Benjamin Strasser
	Johannes Fechner	Verena Schäffer [ de ]	Stephan Thomae

Equality and Diversity

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Petra Köpping	Ricarda Lang	Herbert Mertin
Other members	Leni Breymaier ^[9]	Aminata Touré	Martin Hagen
	Karamba Diaby	Gesine Agena [ de ]	Katrin Helling-Plahr
	Kaweh Mansoori	Ulle Schauws	Michael Kauch

Good living conditions in town and country

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Frank Junge	Manuela Rottmann	Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann
Other members	Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler	Katja Dörner	Kai Abruszat [ de ]
	Sören Link [ de ]	Stefan Schmidt	Torsten Herbst
	Elisabeth Kaiser	Franziska Schubert [ de ]	Thomas Nitzsche

Flight, Migration, Integration

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Boris Pistorius	Luise Amtsberg	Joachim Stamp
Other members	Frank Schwabe	Erik Marquardt	Hans-Ulrich Rülke
	Nancy Faeser	Dirk Adams [ de ]	Linda Teuteberg
	Aydan Özoğuz	Filiz Polat	Stephan Thomae

Foreign Affairs, Security, Defence, Development, Human Rights

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Heiko Maas	Omid Nouripour	Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
Other members	Siemtje Möller	Agnieszka Brugger	Bijan Djir-Sarai
	Dietmar Nietan	Reinhard Bütikofer	Gyde Jensen
	Bärbel Kofler	Tobias Lindner	Michael Georg Link
	Gabriela Heinrich	Hannah Neumann	Frank Müller-Rosentritt
	Nils Schmid	Pegah Edalatian	Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

Europe

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Udo Bullmann	Franziska Brantner	Nicola Beer
Other members	Jens Geier	Jamila Schäfer	Christian Dürr
	Michael Roth	Terry Reintke	Michael Georg Link
	Gabriele Bischoff	Manuel Sarrazin	Frank Schäffler

Finance and Budget

Role	SPD	Greens	FDP
Chief negotiator	Doris Ahnen	Lisa Paus	Christian Dürr
Other members	Sarah Ryglewski	Anja Hajduk	Otto Fricke
	Achim Post	Danyal Bayaz	Christian Grascha
	Michael Schrodi	Sven Giegold	Katja Hessel
	Dennis Rohde	Monika Heinold	Moritz Körner
	Cansel Kiziltepe	Sven-Christian Kindler	Florian Toncar

External links

Koalitionsvertrag: Mehr Fortschritt wagen – Bündnis für Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit (SPD.de)

References

↑ "Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP". www.deutschlandfunk.de. Deutschlandradio. 2021-10-21. Archived from the original on 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
↑ "Koalitions-Ticker: Koalitionsverhandlungen starten noch diese Woche". WDR (in German). Retrieved 2021-10-20.
↑ "Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP". Business Insider (in German). 23 October 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
↑ "Koalitionsvertrag – Was die Ampel will". www.tagesschau.de. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
↑ "Koalitionsverhandlungen". www.spd.de. SPD. 2021-10-25. Archived from the original on 2021-10-25. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
↑ Pressestelle SPD (2021-10-21). "Zuständigkeiten der SPD-Arbeitsgruppen für die Koalitionsverhandlungen" (PDF). SPD.de (in German). Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
↑ "GRÜNEN Mitglieder der Arbeitsgruppen für die Koalitionsverhandlungen" (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-06.
↑ "Zuständigkeiten der FDP-Arbeitsgruppen für die Koalitionsverhandlungen". www.fdp.de (in German). FDP. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
↑ "LGBTQI - Heftiger Streit über Gleichstellung und Vielfalt in der SPD könnte Koalitionsverhandlungen belasten". 2021-10-27. Retrieved 2021-10-27.

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[1] "Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP". www.deutschlandfunk.de. Deutschlandradio. 2021-10-21. Archived from the original on 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2022-02-22.

[2] "Koalitions-Ticker: Koalitionsverhandlungen starten noch diese Woche". WDR (in German). Retrieved 2021-10-20.

[3] "Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP". Business Insider (in German). 23 October 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-07.

[4] "Koalitionsvertrag – Was die Ampel will". www.tagesschau.de. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.

[5] "Koalitionsverhandlungen". www.spd.de. SPD. 2021-10-25. Archived from the original on 2021-10-25. Retrieved 2021-10-25.

[6] Pressestelle SPD (2021-10-21). "Zuständigkeiten der SPD-Arbeitsgruppen für die Koalitionsverhandlungen" (PDF). SPD.de (in German). Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. Retrieved 2023-01-06.

[7] "GRÜNEN Mitglieder der Arbeitsgruppen für die Koalitionsverhandlungen" (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-06.

[8] "Zuständigkeiten der FDP-Arbeitsgruppen für die Koalitionsverhandlungen". www.fdp.de (in German). FDP. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 2023-01-06.

[9] "LGBTQI - Heftiger Streit über Gleichstellung und Vielfalt in der SPD könnte Koalitionsverhandlungen belasten". 2021-10-27. Retrieved 2021-10-27.

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