Franziska Brantner

Franziska Brantner
Dr. Franziska Brantner in 2023 in Berlin.
Parliamentary State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Assumed office
8 December 2021
Serving with
ChancellorOlaf Scholz
MinisterRobert Habeck
Preceded by
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1979-08-24) 24 August 1979 (age 45)
Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
(now Germany)
CitizenshipGerman
Political party German:
Alliance '90/The Greens
 EU:
The Greens–European Free Alliance
Children1
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician

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.

In addition to her parliamentary mandate, Brantner has been a Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021.[1] In this capacity, her portfolio includes European affairs, trade policy, and digitization. [2] Moreover, she is also the ministry's Special Coordinator for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).[3]

Brantner was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2013.[4]

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