Franziska Brantner

Franziska Brantner
Brantner in 2025
Leader of Alliance 90/The Greens
Assumed office
16 November 2024
Serving with Felix Banaszak
Deputy
Preceded byRicarda Lang
Parliamentary State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
In office
8 December 2021 – 6 May 2025
ChancellorOlaf Scholz
MinisterRobert Habeck
Preceded byMarco Wanderwitz
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
22 September 2013
ConstituencyHeidelberg
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
In office
14 July 2009 – 22 September 2013
Personal details
Born (1979-08-24) 24 August 1979 (age 45)
Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Political partyThe Greens (since 1996)
Children1
Alma mater

Franziska Katharina Brantner (born 24 August 1979) is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013. Since 2024, she has also been serving as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongside Felix Banaszak.[1]

In addition to her parliamentary mandate, Brantner served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz from 2021 to 2025.[2] In this capacity, her portfolio included European affairs, trade policy, and digitization.[3] Moreover, she was also the ministry's Special Coordinator for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).[4]

Brantner was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2013.[5]

  1. ^ Peter Carstens and Matthias Wyssuwa (16 November 2024), Parteitag der Grünen: Brantner und Banaszak zu neuen Vorsitzenden gewählt Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  2. ^ Werner Musseler (2 December 2021), Neue Staatssekretäre: Habeck holt Grünen-Spitzenpersonal ins Superministerium Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  3. ^ Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz, [1].
  4. ^ Silke Kersting (5 Januar 2022), Bundesregierung: Das sind die neuen Beauftragten und Koordinatoren in wichtigen politischen Feldern Handelsblatt.
  5. ^ "Franziska Brantner". Deutscher Bundestag. Retrieved 10 May 2016.

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