Jakob von Weizsäcker

Jakob von Weizsäcker
State Minister of Finance of Saarland
Assumed office
26 April 2022
Preceded byPeter Strobel
Member of the European Parliament
In office
1 July 2014  6 January 2019
ConstituencyGermany
Personal details
Born (1970-03-04) 4 March 1970
Heidelberg, West Germany
Political party German
Social Democratic Party
 EU
Party of European Socialists
Children4
Alma materUniversity of Bonn
Websitejakob.weizsaecker.eu

Jakob von Weizsäcker (born 4 March 1970) is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Minister of Finance in the government of Minister-President of the Saarland Anke Rehlinger since the 2022 state elections.

Weizsäcker previously served as head of the Secretariat of the G20 Joint Finance-Health Task Force on Pandemic Preparedness in 2022 and as the chief economist of the German Ministry of Finance under minister Olaf Scholz from 2019 to 2022. Before, he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Thuringia, Germany for the 8th European Parliament (2014–2019).