Carsten Schneider
Carsten Schneider | |
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Schneider in 2025 | |
| Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Climate Protection and Nuclear Safety | |
| Assumed office 6 May 2025 | |
| Chancellor | Friedrich Merz |
| Preceded by | Steffi Lemke (Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection) |
| Minister of State for East Germany and Equivalent Living Conditions | |
| Assumed office 8 December 2021 | |
| Chancellor | Olaf Scholz |
| Preceded by | Marco Wanderwitz (as Parliamentary State Secretary for the New States) |
| Chief Whip of the SPD Group in the Bundestag | |
| In office 24 October 2017 – 8 December 2021 | |
| Leader | Rolf Mützenich |
| Preceded by | Christine Lambrecht |
| Succeeded by | Katja Mast |
| Member of the Bundestag for Thuringia | |
| Assumed office 26 October 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Norbert Otto |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 January 1976 Erfurt, East Germany |
| Political party | SPD |
Carsten Schneider (born 23 January 1976) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Climate Protection and Nuclear Safety in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since 2025.
Schneider has been a member of the German Parliament since 1998. From 2017 until 2021, Schneider was the First Secretary of his party's parliamentary group, in this position assisting the group's successive chairs Andrea Nahles (2017–2019) and Rolf Mützenich (2019–2021). In addition to his parliamentary work, he served as Parliamentary State Secretary for East Germany and Equivalent Living Conditions in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet from 2021 to 2025.