Michael Schrodi | |
|---|---|
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1977-07-03)3 July 1977 (age 48) |
| Political party | SPD |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Michael Schrodi (born 3 July 1977) is a German teacher and politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBavaria since 2017.
In addition to his parliamentary work, Schrodi has been serving as aParliamentary State Secretary at theFederal Ministry of Finance in thegovernment ofChancellorFriedrich Merz since 2025.[1]
Schrodi became a member of the Bundestag in the2017 German federal election.[2] He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.[3][4] On the Finance Committee, he served as his parliamentary group'srapporteur onexcise taxes, taxes on tobacco[5] and the so-calledAbgeltungsteuer. He was also his group’s spokesperson fordistributive justice (2019–2021)[6] andfinancial policies (2021–2025).[7]
In addition to his committee assignments, Schrodi is part of the German-Irish Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Within the SPD parliamentary group, Schrodi belongs to theParliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[8]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of the SPD, theGreen Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 federal elections, Schrodi was part of his party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and thenational budget, co-chaired byDoris Ahnen,Lisa Paus andChristian Dürr.[9] In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition under the leadership ofFriedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and the SPD following the2025 German elections, he was part of the SPD delegation in the same working group, this time led byMathias Middelberg,Florian Oßner andDennis Rohde.[10]
