| Andreas Mehltretter | |
| Office: | Member of the Bundestag |
| Term Start: | 2021 |
| Birth Date: | 1991 12, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Moosburg an der Isar, Germany |
| Party: | SPD |
| Nationality: | German |
| Alma Mater: | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Andreas Mehltretter (born 10 December 1991 in Moosburg an der Isar, Bavaria) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2021.
Mehltretter was born 1991 in the Bavarian town of Moosburg an der Isar.[1] Mehltretter graduated from the Dom-Gymnasium Freising in 2011 and went on to study economics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[2] He completed his master's degree in 2017.
Since then, Mehltretter has been working as a self-employed IT service provider as well as working on his doctorate on the connection between arms trade and intra-state conflicts at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut.[3]
In 2012, Mehltretter joined the SPD and is chairman of the SPD sub-district of Freising. In the 2020 Bavarian local elections, he was elected to the Freising City Council and is the speaker for economy and digitalization of the city of Freising.[4] Before his election to the City Council, he was the spokesman of the Agenda21 group Building, Housing and Transport.
In 2017 and 2021, Mehltretter ran as a direct candidate of the SPD in the Bundestag constituency of Freising,[5] and gained a seat in the Bundestag in 2021 through the state list.[6] [7] [8] In parliament, he is a full member of the Committee on Climate Protection and Energy as well as a deputy member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and the Finance Committee.
Within his parliamentary group, Mehltretter belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[9]