Dr. Volker Wissing
- Job title
- Politician, former Federal Minister
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Dr. Volker Wissing was born in Landau, Rhineland-Palatinate in 1970. He has served as Federal Minister for Digital and Transport since 2021, spearheading efforts to modernize digital infrastructure and drive the transformation of the country’s mobility systems. From November 2024 to May 2025, he also held the office of acting Federal Minister of Justice, following the Free Democratic Party’s (FDP) departure from the coalition government.
Before entering politics, Dr Wissing studied law in Saarbrücken, Freiburg and Münster. In 1997, he received his doctorate in law (Dr. jur.) from the University of Münster. He then worked as a judge and public prosecutor in Zweibrücken and Landau until his election to the German Bundestag in 2004. During his ten-year tenure in parliament, he served as Chairman of the Finance Committee (2009–2011), gaining recognition for his expertise in fiscal and economic policy. After leaving the Bundestag in 2013, Dr Wissing returned to the legal profession, becoming a lawyer and founding the law firm Wissing Heintz Gehrlein Rechtsanwälte Part GmbbB in Landau, where he remains a partner.
From May 2016 to May 2021, he was a member of the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate, where he also served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture. He returned to the Bundestag in 2021 and was appointed to his federal ministerial post in the cabinet of federal chancellor Olaf Scholz.
In addition to German and English, Dr Wissing speaks French and Spanish. He is married and has one child.
