Lars Klingbeil
Lars Klingbeil | |
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Klingbeil in 2025 | |
| Vice Chancellor of Germany | |
| Assumed office 6 May 2025 | |
| Chancellor | Friedrich Merz |
| Preceded by | Robert Habeck |
| Minister of Finance | |
| Assumed office 6 May 2025 | |
| Chancellor | Friedrich Merz |
| Preceded by | Jörg Kukies |
| Leader of the Social Democratic Party | |
| Assumed office 11 December 2021 | |
| Deputy | Klara Geywitz Hubertus Heil Thomas Kutschaty Serpil Midyatli Anke Rehlinger |
| General Secretary | Kevin Kühnert Matthias Miersch |
| Preceded by | Norbert Walter-Borjans |
| Leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Bundestag | |
| In office 26 February 2025 – 6 May 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Rolf Mützenich |
| Succeeded by | Matthias Miersch |
| General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany | |
| In office 8 December 2017 – 11 December 2021 | |
| Leader | Martin Schulz Andrea Nahles Saskia Esken Norbert Walter-Borjans |
| Preceded by | Hubertus Heil |
| Succeeded by | Kevin Kühnert |
| Member of the Bundestag for Lower Saxony | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Reinhard Grindel |
| Constituency | Rotenburg I – Heidekreis |
| In office 27 October 2009 – 24 October 2017 | |
| Preceded by | multi-member district |
| Succeeded by | multi-member district |
| Constituency | See list |
| In office 24 January 2005 – 18 October 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Jann-Peter Janssen |
| Succeeded by | multi-member district |
| Constituency | See list |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lars Klingbeil 23 February 1978 Soltau, Lower Saxony, West Germany |
| Political party | Social Democratic |
| Spouse |
Lena-Sophie Müller (m. 2019) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Leibniz University Hannover (AB, MA) |
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Lars Klingbeil ([ˈlaʁs ˈklɪŋbaɪl]; born 23 February 1978) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) serving as the Vice Chancellor of Germany and Federal Minister of Finance since 6 May 2025. He has served as the SPD's Co-Leader since 2021, together with Saskia Esken.
Previously Klingbeil was the General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party from December 2017 to December 2021. Since 2001 he has been a member of the City Council of Munster and a member of the District Council of Heide. He was a Member of the Bundestag for about nine months in 2005 and has been a member again since the 2009 Federal Election. From 2003 till 2007, Klingbeil was the Deputy Leader of the Jusos, the SPD youth wing. Klingbeil is a member of the Seeheim Circle, the more right-leaning faction of the SPD, which shares many similarities with Tony Blair's New Labour.