Candidates of the 2021 German federal election

This is a list of candidates for the 2021 German federal election.

There were 6,211 candidates in total. Of these, 1,284 ran only in the 299 single-member constituencies while 2,851 ran only on party lists. 2,076 candidates ran in both a constituency and on a party list.

Competing parties
A total of 47 parties and lists were approved to run in the 2021 federal election, including the seven which won seats in the 19th Bundestag. Of these, 40 ran party lists in at least one state, while 7 ran only direct candidates. Further, 196 independent candidates ran in the various direct constituencies.

In the table below, green shading indicates that the party ran a list in the indicated state. The number in each box indicates how many direct candidates the party ran in the indicated state.

By state
In the tables below, green shading indicates that the candidate was an incumbent.

CDU/CSU

 * Norbert Barthle
 * Manfred Behrens
 * Sybille Benning
 * Peter Bleser
 * Norbert Brackmann
 * Maria Flachsbarth
 * Hans-Joachim Fuchtel
 * Alois Gerig
 * Eberhard Gienger
 * Astrid Grotelüschen
 * Mark Hauptmann
 * Matthias Heider
 * Heribert Hirte
 * Karl Holmeier
 * Alois Karl
 * Volker Kauder, former CDU/CSU parliamentary leader
 * Andreas Lämmel
 * Karl A. Lamers
 * Katharina Landgraf
 * Nikolas Löbel
 * Thomas de Maizière, former Minister of the Interior
 * Hans-Georg von der Marwitz
 * Angela Merkel, incumbent Chancellor
 * Hans Michelbach
 * Elisabeth Motschmann
 * Gerd Müller, incumbent Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development
 * Michaela Noll
 * Georg Nüßlein
 * Martin Patzelt
 * Joachim Pfeiffer
 * Eckhardt Rehberg
 * Lothar Riebsamen
 * Anita Schäfer
 * Klaus-Peter Schulze
 * Uwe Schummer
 * Patrick Sensburg
 * Frank Steffel
 * Karin Strenz
 * Peter Tauber
 * Arnold Vaatz
 * Kees de Vries
 * Peter Weiß
 * Marian Wendt
 * Tobias Zech

SPD

 * Bela Bach
 * Lothar Binding
 * Ingrid Arndt-Brauer
 * Fritz Felgentreu
 * Ulrich Freese
 * Dagmar Freitag
 * Barbara Hendricks, former minister of Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
 * Marcus Held
 * Gustav Herzog
 * Thomas Jurk
 * Arno Klare
 * Daniela Kolbe
 * Ralf Kapschack
 * Christine Lambrecht, incumbent Minister for Justice and Consumer Protection
 * Christian Lange
 * Kirsten Lühmann
 * Caren Marks
 * Christoph Matschie
 * Hilde Mattheis
 * Markus Paschke
 * Florian Pronold
 * Sascha Raabe
 * Ernst Dieter Rossmann
 * Ulla Schmidt, former minister of Federal Ministry of Health
 * Ursula Schulte
 * Martin Schulz, SPD candidate for Chancellor in the 2017 federal election
 * Swen Schulz
 * Rainer Spiering
 * Sonja Steffen
 * Kerstin Tack
 * Gabi Weber
 * Dagmar Ziegler, incumbent Vice President of the Bundestag

AfD

 * Axel Gehrke
 * Wilhelm von Gottberg
 * Heiko Heßenkemper
 * Lothar Maier
 * Roman Reusch
 * Heiko Wildberg

FDP

 * Grigorios Aggelidis
 * Britta Dassler
 * Hartmut Ebbing
 * Ulla Ihnen
 * Marcel Klinge
 * Alexander Kulitz
 * Roman Müller-Böhm
 * Martin Neumann
 * Wieland Schinnenburg
 * Frank Sitta
 * Hermann Otto Solms, Father of the House
 * Katja Suding

The Left

 * Heidrun Bluhm-Förster
 * Sylvia Gabelmann
 * Fabio De Masi
 * Ulla Jelpke
 * Sabine Leidig
 * Stefan Liebich
 * Michael Leutert
 * Niema Movassat
 * Kirsten Tackmann
 * Andreas Wagner
 * Hubertus Zdebel

Greens

 * Anja Hajduk
 * Sylvia Kotting-Uhl
 * Monika Lazar
 * Friedrich Ostendorff
 * Frithjof Schmidt

Independents

 * Frauke Petry, former leader of AfD