Michael Georg Link

Michael Georg Link
Link in 2014
Minister of State in the Federal Foreign Office
with Cornelia Pieper
In office
2012–2013
Preceded byWerner Hoyer
Succeeded byMichael Roth
Member of the Bundestag
In office
20052013
In office
20172025
Personal details
Born (1963-02-06) 6 February 1963
Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyFree Democratic Party
Alma mater

Michael Georg Link (born 6 February 1963) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2013 and again since 2017.

In addition to his parliamentary mandate, Link served as First Deputy Foreign Minister (Minister of State for Europe) in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2013 and as the Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz from 2022 to 2024. He was the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) from July 2014 to June 2017.