Lars Klingbeil, MdB

Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance

Since May 2025 – Federal Minister of Finance

Since 2021 – Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)

2017 to 2021 – Secretary General of the SPD
2014 to 2018 – Chair of the Lower Saxony/Bremen Regional Group in the SPD parliamentary group

2009 to 2017 – Spokesperson for Internet Policy for the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag
2006 to 2020 – SPD Subdistrict Chair for Heidekreis
2006 to 2018 – Member of the Heidekreis
District Council 2005 and since 2009 - Member of the German Bundestag
2005 to 2009 - Chief of Staff to Garrelt Duin, Member of the Bundestag, SPD State Chairman
2004 to 2005 - Youth Education Officer, SPD State Association of North Rhine-Westphalia
2001 to 2016 - City Council Member of Munster
2001 to 2004 - Fellow of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES)
from 2001 to 2003 - Staff member at the constituency office of Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Member of the Bundestag, and Heino Wiese, Member of the Bundestag

1999 to 2004 - Studied political science, sociology, and history at Leibniz University Hannover (Master’s degree)

1998 to 1999 - Community service at the Hannover
Railway Station Mission 1998 - High school diploma from Munster High School

Programm

  • Mut zur Re­form – In­vesti­tio­nen und An­reize für den Auf­schwung

    22.06.2026

    14:40 15:15

    Impuls und Panel