Christian Lindner

Christian Lindner was Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance and is a Member of the German Parliament (Bundestag).

In December 2013, he was elected leader of the Free Democrats. As chairman of the Free Democrats’ Parliamentary Group (2017–2021), he successfully established the group as a constructive and influential force in the German Bundestag.

In his lectures, Christian Lindner will talk about, among other things:

  • The global shifts in politics, the economy and finance
  • Digitalisation, bureaucracy, energy policy, economic turnaround – are we missing out on the future?
  • The debt brake: security for future generations or a brake on innovation?
  • Germany’s competitiveness in global competition
  • The German budget and European fiscal policy
  • Responsibility towards the next generation: courage for the future instead of clinging to the old

In the 2021 elections the FDP achieved one of its best results ever. After successful coalition negotiations Christian Lindner became Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance in the first ever three-party coalition on December, 8th 2021. In the Bundestag elections on 23 February 2025, the FDP did not make it back into the Bundestag and Christian Lindner resigned from his political offices.

Lindner joined the FDP in 1995. He was elected as a member of the federal state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia for the first time in 2000. Between 2012 and 2017 Christian Lindner served as parliamentary leader of the FDP group in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Christian Lindner grew up in Wermelskirchen near Cologne. He studied political science, philosophy and public law at the Rheinische Friedrich-WilhelmsUniversity in Bonn.

Between 1997 and 2004 he owned an advertising agency and was co-founder of an IT-business.

Christian Lindner is a major of the German Air Force reserve.

Wolfram Sauer's opinion on Christian Lindner

Few people polarize like Christian Lindner. Unwavering in his convictions, for which he personally takes great risks. A sharp-edged rhetorician, pointed, quick-witted, likeable and humorous. And probably one of the most passionate politicians Germany has ever had.

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