Michael Schrodi (born 3 July 1977) is a German teacher and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.
In addition to his parliamentary work, Schrodi has been serving as a Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since 2025.Birgitt Marschall (7 May 2025), Amtsübergabe an SPD-Chef: Wie Finanzminister Klingbeil ab Minute eins loslegt Rheinische Post.
Political career Schrodi became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election. He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. On the Finance Committee, he served as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on excise taxes, taxes on tobaccoRauchen wird teurer: Bundestag sagt Ja zur Tabaksteuer-Reform Rheinische Post, 11 June 2021. and the so-called Abgeltungsteuer. He was also his group’s spokesperson for distributive justice (2019–2021)Als Sprecher der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion: Schrodi macht sich für soziale Integration stark Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6 November 2019. and financial policies (2021–2025).Jonas Jordan (17 December 2021), SPD-Fraktion: Das sind die Sprecher*innen der Ausschussarbeitsgruppen Vorwärts.
In addition to his committee assignments, Schrodi is part of the German-Irish Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Within the SPD parliamentary group, Schrodi belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.Members Parliamentary Left.
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Schrodi was part of his party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and the national budget, co-chaired by Doris Ahnen, Lisa Paus and Christian Dürr.Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP Deutschlandfunk, October 27, 2021. In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition under the leadership of Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2025 German elections, he was part of the SPD delegation in the same working group, this time led by Mathias Middelberg, Florian Oßner and Dennis Rohde.Konstanze Eidenschink (13 March 2025), Koalitionsverhandlungen: „Wir müssen die Kommunen fit für die Zukunft machen“ Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Other activities Education and Science Workers' Union (GEW) – member
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Bundestag biography