Michael Roth | |
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Chair of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee | |
Assumed office 15 December 2021 | |
Preceded by | Norbert Röttgen |
Minister of State for Europe | |
In office 17 December 2013 – 8 December 2021 | |
Minister | Frank-Walter Steinmeier Sigmar Gabriel Heiko Maas |
Preceded by | Michael Georg Link |
Succeeded by | Anna Lührmann |
Member of the Bundestag for Werra-Meißner – Hersfeld-Rotenburg (Hersfeld; 1998–2002) | |
Assumed office 26 October 1998 | |
Preceded by | Berthold Wittich |
Personal details | |
Born | Heringen, Hesse, West Germany | 24 August 1970
Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Michael Helmut Roth (born 24 August 1970) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 27 September 1998.
From 2013 to 2021 Roth also served as Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. From January 2014 to 2021 he was the German government's Commissioner for Franco-German Cooperation.[1]