Silke Schneider

Silke Schneider (born 1967) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. She currently serves as the Secretary of state for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas for Schleswig-Holstein. She is designated to become Minister of Finance for Schleswig-Holstein following the incumbent Ministers resignation.

Biography
Schneider studied jurisprudence in Cologne and Hamburg. In 1997 she became a judge at the district court in Lübeck, and was the chairman of the Lübeck Regional Court from 2006 to 2009. From 2008 to 2010, Schneider acted as an Equality Commissioner in the Ministry of Justice for Schleswig-Holstein.

After Schneider took the post of director of the Amtsgericht Bad Segeberg between 2009 and 2014, she was appointed Secretary of State for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas at the Ministry of Energy, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of the Ministry of Energy, on 15 April 2014 by Minister Robert Habeck Landes Schleswig-Holstein in the cabinet of Albig. She is a licensed mediator having graduated from the Free University of Berlin in 2014 with the thesis ''Confidentiality of mediation: Protection and limits through criminal and criminal procedural law. ''

In June of 2024, Deputy Minister-President and Minister of Finance Monika Heinold announced her resignation from the Second Günther Cabinet. Schneider was designated as her successor as Minister of Finance.

Private life
Silke Schneider is the mother of six children from two marriages. She was previously married to Hartmut Schneider, vice president of the Lübeck Regional Court.