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Volker Wissing
Volker Wissing (born 22 April 1970) is a German lawyer and former judge who served as the Minister for Transport in the federal government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz from 2021 to 2025 and as Minister of Justice from 2024 to 2025.
Wissing was previously the Deputy Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate in the state government under Minister-President Malu Dreyer from 2016 to 2021 and a member of the German Bundestag from 2004 to 2013. He was the general secretary of the Free Democratic Party from 2020 to 2022. Wissing declared his resignation from the party on 7 November 2024 in order to remain part of the Scholz cabinet in the wake of the 2024 German government crisis. Following the resignation of Marco Buschmann, he also assumed the office of Minister of Justice. The German federal election in February 2025 was a snap election. The FDP got 4.3% of the votes and missed the Five percent hurdle.
Wissing was born 1970 in the German town of Landau in der Pfalz and studied law at the Saarland University.
Wissing achieved a law degree and worked for some time as a judge before he entered professional politics.
Wissing entered the FDP in 1998. He became a member of the German Bundestag in 2004 when he took the seat of Marita Sehn who had died in a car accident. From 2004 until 2013, he served on the Finance Committee; he chaired the committee from 2009 until 2013 (during the Second Merkel cabinet, a CDU/CSU and FDP coalition). From 2011 until 2013, he also served as one of his parliamentary group's deputy chairpersons, under the leadership of chairman Rainer Brüderle.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the FDP and the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) following the 2009 federal elections, Wissing was part of the FDP delegation in the working group on financial policy and taxes, led by Thomas de Maizière und Hermann Otto Solms.
On the state level, Wissing became chairman of the party's branch in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2011 succeeding Rainer Brüderle. He led the Free Democratic Party back into the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate in the March 2016 state election. After coalition negotiations Wissing became Deputy Minister President and State Minister for Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture in the Second Dreyer cabinet.
In 2020 FDP leader Christian Lindner nominated Wissing to serve as General Secretary of the party, succeeding Linda Teuteberg. Subsequently, Wissing announced his switch for state politics to the federal arena, announcing his candidacy for the Bundestag in the September 2021 German federal election.
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Volker Wissing
Volker Wissing (born 22 April 1970) is a German lawyer and former judge who served as the Minister for Transport in the federal government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz from 2021 to 2025 and as Minister of Justice from 2024 to 2025.
Wissing was previously the Deputy Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate in the state government under Minister-President Malu Dreyer from 2016 to 2021 and a member of the German Bundestag from 2004 to 2013. He was the general secretary of the Free Democratic Party from 2020 to 2022. Wissing declared his resignation from the party on 7 November 2024 in order to remain part of the Scholz cabinet in the wake of the 2024 German government crisis. Following the resignation of Marco Buschmann, he also assumed the office of Minister of Justice. The German federal election in February 2025 was a snap election. The FDP got 4.3% of the votes and missed the Five percent hurdle.
Wissing was born 1970 in the German town of Landau in der Pfalz and studied law at the Saarland University.
Wissing achieved a law degree and worked for some time as a judge before he entered professional politics.
Wissing entered the FDP in 1998. He became a member of the German Bundestag in 2004 when he took the seat of Marita Sehn who had died in a car accident. From 2004 until 2013, he served on the Finance Committee; he chaired the committee from 2009 until 2013 (during the Second Merkel cabinet, a CDU/CSU and FDP coalition). From 2011 until 2013, he also served as one of his parliamentary group's deputy chairpersons, under the leadership of chairman Rainer Brüderle.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the FDP and the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) following the 2009 federal elections, Wissing was part of the FDP delegation in the working group on financial policy and taxes, led by Thomas de Maizière und Hermann Otto Solms.
On the state level, Wissing became chairman of the party's branch in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2011 succeeding Rainer Brüderle. He led the Free Democratic Party back into the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate in the March 2016 state election. After coalition negotiations Wissing became Deputy Minister President and State Minister for Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture in the Second Dreyer cabinet.
In 2020 FDP leader Christian Lindner nominated Wissing to serve as General Secretary of the party, succeeding Linda Teuteberg. Subsequently, Wissing announced his switch for state politics to the federal arena, announcing his candidacy for the Bundestag in the September 2021 German federal election.