Lutz Lienenkämper

Lutz Lienenkämper (born 24 May 1969 in Cologne) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as a member of the board of Bundesbank since 2024.

Political career From 2005 to 2024, Lienenkämper was a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.

From 2009 to 2010, Lienenkämper served as State Minister of Construction and Transport in the government of Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Jürgen Rüttgers. From 2017 to 2022, he served as State Minister of Finance in the governments of successive Ministers-President Armin Laschet and Hendrik Wüst.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the CDU and Green Party under Wüst following the 2022 state elections, Lienenkämper and Günter Krings led their party’s delegation in the working group on finances; their counterparts from the Green Party were Felix Banaszak and Sven Giegold.