Christian Lindner: Assets of the FDP politician

How much money does Christian Lindner have?

Christian Lindner is the FDP’s whiz kid. At the age of 21, he became the youngest politician ever to enter the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. At the age of 34, he became the youngest federal chairman his party has ever had. And he has been German Finance Minister since December 2021. In addition to his political career, he also always knew how to make money. Christian Lindner’s estimated net worth is 5.5 million euros .

Christian Lindner’s net worth

Christian Lindner generates the majority of his income through his political activities. He became a member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia at the age of 21 and earned more than 8,000 euros gross per month. He was a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2012 and has been a member again since 2017. Initially, he earned around 7,500 euros a month in this position plus a flat rate of almost 4,000 euros. As of 2022, the diets cost around 10,000 euros per month and the flat rate is around 4,500 euros. Lindner has also been expanding his assets as Federal Minister of Finance since the end of 2021. As finance minister, he earns a net salary of around 15,000 euros per month . Lindner also generates additional income through lectures. From 2017 to 2021 they were around 420,000 euros.

Enterprising youth

Even as a student, Christian Lindner earned money as a freelance management consultant, among other things. In 1998 he passed his Abitur at the municipal high school in Wermelskirchen. After his community service, he studied political science as well as public law and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1999 to 2006. During his studies, he also worked as a management consultant and also traded in electricity . In 2000 he founded Moomax GmbH and became its managing director. A year later he had to leave the company, which had now lost 1.2 million euros.

Political career in fast forward

Lindner also began his political career as a student. In 1995 he joined the FDP, a year later he became state chairman of the Liberal Schools of North Rhine-Westphalia and also joined the board of the Young Liberals of North Rhine-Westphalia. In May 2000, the FDP entered the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, and at the age of 21, Lindner became the youngest member of this state parliament ever . A little later he took on the role of spokesman for generations, family and integration.

In November 2004, Lindner became general secretary of the FDP state association in North Rhine-Westphalia and in this position also led the campaign for the 2005 state elections. In 2007, Lindner became part of his party’s federal executive board. In September 2009 he entered the Bundestag for the first time . Between December 2009 and December 2011 he was Secretary General of the FDP. In May 2012, he resigned from his Bundestag mandate to become chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament.

Chairman of the Federal FDP

In March 2013, Lindner was elected one of three deputy federal chairmen of his party. Because the FDP missed entry into the Bundestag in September 2013, the party’s entire federal executive board resigned. Linder then aimed for the federal presidency and achieved this goal in December 2013 – at the age of 34, he was the youngest FDP politician to date .

Federal minister and much-discussed wedding

In the 2017 federal election, the FDP made it back into the Bundestag. However, Lindner broke off negotiations with the CDU and the Greens to form the federal government with the oft-quoted reason: “It is better not to govern than to govern incorrectly.” After the 2021 federal election, the SPD, the Greens and the FDP formed the governing coalition. Lindner became Finance Minister in Chancellor Olaf Scholz ‘s cabinet . Public discussions arose when Lindner married his partner Franca Lehfeldt in July 2022. A conflict of interest was not only feared because Lehfeldt works as a political journalist. The wedding taking place on Sylt was also guarded by bodyguards who were financed by taxpayers’ money due to Lindner’s status.