Lennard Oehl

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Lennard Oehl (born 1 June 1993 in Frankfurt) is a German economist and politician with the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2021 to 2025. Oehl grew up in Hesse, attended primary school in Ostheim and finished his Abitur at Hohe Landesschule in Hanau in 2012. He took part in the UNIS World Student Conference in New York in 2011. He studied economics, earning a Bachelor's degree in 2017 and a Master's in 2019, with a semester abroad in Łódź in 2017/18. He worked as an analyst in Frankfurt before entering politics. In 2016 he was elected to Nidderau city council, and since 2018 he has chaired the Young Socialists in the SPD Main-Kinzig-Kreis. In the 2021 federal election he won the direct mandate in the Hanau district with 31.1% of first votes and joined the 20th Bundestag. In parliament he sat on the Finance Committee, was a substitute on the Budget Committee, and was also part of the Environment Committee. He lost his seat in February 2025 to Pascal Reddig. In 2021 he focused on issues like the COVID-19 pandemic, housing, the environment, infrastructure and digitalisation, calling for fairer distribution of crisis burdens and for affordable rents.