Michael Roth (politician)

Michael Roth
Official portrait, 2015
Chair of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee
In office
15 December 2021  23 February 2025
Preceded byNorbert Röttgen
Minister of State for Europe
In office
17 December 2013  8 December 2021
MinisterFrank-Walter Steinmeier
Sigmar Gabriel
Heiko Maas
Preceded byMichael Georg Link
Succeeded byAnna Lührmann
Member of the Bundestag
for Werra-Meißner – Hersfeld-Rotenburg
(Hersfeld; 1998–2002)
In office
26 October 1998  23 February 2025
Preceded byBerthold Wittich
Personal details
Born (1970-08-24) 24 August 1970
Heringen, Hesse, West Germany
Political partySocial 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.