Michael Roth (politician)
Michael Roth | |
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Official portrait, 2015 | |
| Chair of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee | |
| In office 15 December 2021 – 23 February 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Norbert Röttgen |
| Minister of State for Europe | |
| In office 17 December 2013 – 8 December 2021 | |
| Minister | Frank-Walter Steinmeier Sigmar Gabriel Heiko Maas |
| Preceded by | Michael Georg Link |
| Succeeded by | Anna Lührmann |
| Member of the Bundestag for Werra-Meißner – Hersfeld-Rotenburg (Hersfeld; 1998–2002) | |
| In office 26 October 1998 – 23 February 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Berthold Wittich |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 August 1970 Heringen, Hesse, West Germany |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Michael Helmut Roth (born 24 August 1970) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2025.
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.