# List of participants in the Scholz cabinet coalition negotiations

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.
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.

## 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

### 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.

### Modern State and Democracy

| Role | SPD | Greens | FDP |
| Chief negotiator | Thomas Kutschaty | Britta Haßelmann | Konstantin Kuhle |
| Other members | Verena Hubertz | Till Steffen | Bernd Buchholz |
| Other members | Dirk Wiese | Martin Hagen [de] | Matthias Frey [de] |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Jan Pörksen [de] | Jan Philipp Albrecht | Manuel Höferlin |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Wiebke Esdar | Angela Dorn-Rancke | Magnus Buhlert [de] |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Sabine Poschmann | Maik Außendorf | Reinhard Houben |
| Other members | Bernd Westphal | Anna Cavazzini | Michael Kruse |
| Other members | Johann Saathoff | Anna Kebschull [de] | Andreas Reichel [de] |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Carsten Träger | Jutta Paulus | Karlheinz Busen |
| Other members | 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] |
| Other members | Olaf Lies | Harald Ebner | Lukas Braun |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Andreas Bovenschulte | Matthias Gastel | Christof Rasche [de] |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Svenja Schulze | Michael Bloss | Andreas Pinkwart |
| Other members | Dietmar Woidke | Tobias Goldschmidt | René Rock [de] |
| Other members | Delara Burkhardt | Ingrid Nestle | Michael Theurer |
| Other members | 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] |
| Other members | Martin Rosemann | Stephanie Aeffner | Sylvia Bruns [de] |
| Other members | Martin Dulig | Belit Onay | Heiner Garg |
| Other members | Katja Mast | Udo Philipp [de] | Pascal Kober |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Yasmin Fahimi | Beate Müller-Gemmeke | Bernd Buchholz |
| Other members | 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] |
| Other members | Bernhard Daldrup | Canan Bayram | Sebastian Körber [de] |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Karl Lauterbach | Manfred Lucha [de] | Andrew Ullmann |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Stefanie Hubig | Anke Erdmann [de] | Yvonne Gebauer |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Antje Draheim [de] | Katja Keul | Maren Jasper-Winter [de] |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Michelle Müntefering | Erhard Grundl | Thomas Nückel [de] |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Thomas Hitschler | Lamya Kaddor | Konstantin Kuhle |
| Other members | Georg Maier | Sergey Lagodinsky | Matthias Schulenberg |
| Other members | Mahmut Özdemir | Manuela Rottmann | Benjamin Strasser |
| Other members | 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 | Aminata Touré | Martin Hagen |
| Other members | Karamba Diaby | Gesine Agena [de] | Katrin Helling-Plahr |
| Other members | 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] |
| Other members | Sören Link [de] | Stefan Schmidt | Torsten Herbst |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Nancy Faeser | Dirk Adams [de] | Linda Teuteberg |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Dietmar Nietan | Reinhard Bütikofer | Gyde Jensen |
| Other members | Bärbel Kofler | Tobias Lindner | Michael Georg Link |
| Other members | Gabriela Heinrich | Hannah Neumann | Frank Müller-Rosentritt |
| Other members | Nils Schmid | Pegah Edalatian [de] | 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 |
| Other members | Michael Roth | Terry Reintke | Michael Georg Link |
| Other members | 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 |
| Other members | Achim Post | Danyal Bayaz | Christian Grascha |
| Other members | Michael Schrodi | Sven Giegold | Katja Hessel |
| Other members | Dennis Rohde | Monika Heinold | Moritz Körner |
| Other members | Cansel Kiziltepe | Sven-Christian Kindler | Florian Toncar |