Michael Roth (politician)

Michael Roth
Official portrait, 2015
Chair of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee
Assumed office
15 December 2021
Preceded byNorbert Röttgen
Minister of State for Europe
In office
17 December 2013 – 8 December 2021
MinisterFrank-Walter Steinmeier
Sigmar Gabriel
Heiko Maas
Preceded byMichael Georg Link
Succeeded byAnna Lührmann
Member of the Bundestag
for Werra-Meißner – Hersfeld-Rotenburg
(Hersfeld; 1998–2002)
Assumed office
26 October 1998
Preceded byBerthold Wittich
Personal details
Born (1970-08-24) 24 August 1970 (age 54)
Heringen, Hesse, West Germany
Political partySocial 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]

  1. ^ Amt, Auswärtiges. "Federal Foreign Office - The Commissioner for Franco-German Cooperation". Auswärtiges Amt DE. Retrieved 12 July 2018.