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.Horst Thoren und Georg Winters (23 November 2024), Lienenkämper bei der Bundesbank: „Es wird nicht signifikant weniger Bargeld in Deutschland gebraucht“ Rheinische Post.
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 2022, he served as acting minister of environment and agriculture.
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;Maximilian Plück (30 May 2022), Koalitionsverhandlungen für Schwarz-Grün: Diese Politiker verhandeln für die CDU Rheinische Post. their counterparts from the Green Party were Felix Banaszak and Sven Giegold.Maximilian Plück (31 May 2022), Koalitionsverhandlungen für Schwarz-Grün: Diese Politiker verhandeln für die Grünen Rheinische Post.
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