Felix Schreiner

Felix Schreiner (born 29 January 1986 in Waldshut) is a politician in Germany of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and a member of the Bundestag for constituency 288 Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg. He has sat in the Bundestag since 2017, after serving in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg from 2011 to 2017 as the CDU parliamentary group's spokesperson on transport and the environment. Since 13 May 2025 he has been a parliamentary managing director (Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer) of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag. On 18 May 2026 the Südkurier reported that he had succeeded Andreas Jung as chairman of the CDU's Baden-Württemberg state group (Landesgruppe) in the Bundestag after Jung moved into state politics in Stuttgart.

Schreiner is Protestant. He attended primary school in Lauchringen, a Realschule in Tiengen and the Wirtschaftsgymnasium in Waldshut, where he gained the entrance qualification for a university of applied sciences. He trained as an administrative clerk (Verwaltungsfachangestellter) with the municipality of Lauchringen and the administration school of the Baden-Württemberg Association of Municipalities, then worked as personal assistant to mayor Thomas Schäuble and as a staff member in the Lauchringen municipal administration. He afterwards studied business law (Wirtschaftsrecht) at a Fachhochschule and worked as an aide to the chairman of the board of Sparkasse Bonndorf-Stühlingen. A January 2025 Staatsanzeiger profile described that route from a town-hall apprenticeship through the municipal and district councils into the Landtag, and recorded that in 2011 he was the youngest member of the CDU Landtag group, succeeding former Landtag president Peter Straub in the Waldshut state constituency. He grew up in Lauchringen, a few kilometres from the border with Switzerland.

The Bundestag lists him as the directly elected member for Waldshut since 2017. In that constituency the Federal Returning Officer recorded a CDU first-vote share of 41.9 percent in 2017 (56,528 votes) and 33.6 percent in 2021 (45,335 votes). At the 2025 Bundestag election Schreiner again won the seat, with 37.7 percent of the first votes (54,467), ahead of Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany on 18.7 percent; turnout was 82.5 percent. On the party list (second votes) the CDU took 33.7 percent and the Alternative for Germany 19.1 percent.

In the 21st Bundestag the parliament's membership list records him as a full member of the Council of Elders (Ältestenrat) and of the Mediation Committee (Vermittlungsausschuss), and as a deputy member of the Committee on Transport, the Committee on Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, and the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development and Future Issues. He chairs the German-Swiss Parliamentary Group. The Südkurier reported that CDU members elected him parliamentary managing director with 90 percent of the vote; the CDU/CSU group's notice of 13 May 2025 lists him in that role alongside Steffen Bilger, Reinhard Brandl, Hendrik Hoppenstedt and Catarina dos Santos-Wintz.

Statutory disclosures on the Bundestag website list unpaid service on the Lauchringen municipal council and on the Waldshut district council, where he is deputy chairman of the council, together with the CDU district chairmanship, the local party chairmanship and membership of the CDU state executive. The same filings list the presidency of the Blasmusikverband Hochrhein, the presidency of the Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Musikverbände from 9 May 2026, a seat on the supervisory board of the Caritasverband Hochrhein, and, from 1 January 2026, membership of the supervisory board of Toll Collect GmbH at 4,000 euros gross a year. His constituency office is in Waldshut-Tiengen. Regional reporting has tied his parliamentary work to cross-border commuting, infrastructure and relations with Switzerland.

Early life and education

Family and schooling

Felix Schreiner was born on 29 January 1986 in Waldshut, part of Waldshut-Tiengen in the Waldshut district of Baden-Württemberg, and is Protestant. He grew up in Lauchringen, about five kilometres from the border with Switzerland. In 2025 he recalled times when his family crossed the High Rhine to buy pasta or fuel in Switzerland because it was cheaper, and said that locally one simply drives across the Rhine.

His mother, Dorothea Schreiner, a trained bookseller and the mother of four children, opened Buchhandlung Schreiner in 1985 in a small living room in Unterlauchringen, opposite a kindergarten. Schreiner has said she did so while pregnant with him. The shop later moved within the village and, in 2008, into its own premises at Hauptstraße 31; in September 2019 she handed it to her daughter Yvonne Güntert-Schreiner. Schreiner has said that his sister now runs the business. In a 2016 interview he said that the four siblings often helped out, that he worked in the shop on Saturdays as a schoolboy, and that he sold his first book there at the age of twelve; he did not himself become a bookseller, as his sister did. A profile published that year also described him as married to Ann-Katrin Schreiner, née Hosp.

He attended primary school in Lauchringen, the Realschule in Tiengen and the Wirtschaftsgymnasium in Waldshut, where he gained the Fachhochschulreife, the entrance qualification for a university of applied sciences. He has written that, in the fifth grade at the Realschule, he was elected class representative and decided that he wanted to become mayor, and that he later served as a student representative and as a freelance contributor to a daily newspaper. He credited Bertold Schmidt, mayor of Lauchringen for more than forty years and recently deceased when Schreiner spoke in March 2016, with having taken him seriously as a pupil and encouraged him.

Vocational training and studies

After school he trained as a Verwaltungsfachangestellter, a clerical qualification in public administration, with the municipal administration of Lauchringen and at the Verwaltungsschule of the Gemeindetag Baden-Württemberg, the state's association of municipalities. The apprenticeship was a placement in the town hall under Thomas Schäuble, then the mayor. Schreiner later said Schäuble had told him that decisions taken in the state parliament affect municipalities directly, and that the training left him able to read a budget without instruction. A 2025 profile described the route as an apprenticeship in the town hall followed by seats on the municipal council, the district council and, from 2011, the state parliament, and noted that he was usually the youngest person in the bodies he joined, including the youngest member of his group when he entered the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg.

He next worked in the Lauchringen administration as Schäuble's personal assistant and as a staff member in the main office. By his own account those duties covered the business of the municipal council, personnel matters for the municipal kindergartens and deputising for the head of the main office; he then studied business law (Wirtschaftsrecht) at the Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, now the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen. The Bundestag biography lists the next post as Referent to the chairman of the board of Sparkasse Bonndorf-Stühlingen, a local savings bank, ahead of his membership of the Landtag from 2011 to 2017.

Party offices and local government

Junge Union and the CDU

Schreiner has written that he joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) at 17, which places the step in 2003, and that he then sat on the executive of the party’s district association in Waldshut. On 20 September 2007 the Badische Zeitung reported that the CDU branch in Lauchringen elected him local chairman at a general meeting in the Hotel Feldeck. Nineteen members could vote, Werner Grimm became deputy, and the paper called Schreiner one of the party’s youngest local chairs. His Bundestag biography, drawn from members’ own information, still lists him as Ortsvorsitzender in Lauchringen and as CDU district chairman.

At a congress in Ühlingen-Birkendorf on Saturday, 4 September 2010, the district association elected the then 24-year-old Schreiner to succeed Georg Villinger, chairman since 2006, who did not stand again. The Badische Zeitung wrote that this made him the youngest chairman of a CDU district association in Germany. He had already been nominated, in April 2010, as the CDU candidate for the Waldshut constituency of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, and he told the congress he wanted more policy debate inside what he called a Politikwerkstatt. He has kept the office. On 25 April 2026 a congress in Murg-Oberhof confirmed him with 98 percent of the vote, the Südkurier reported from the association’s notice; the meeting also re-elected deputy chairs Gabriele Schmidt, Cornelia Scharnagl, Adrian Probst and Dieter Zauft and chose delegates to higher congresses. The Badische Zeitung likewise reported that he remained district chairman.

In the Young Union (Junge Union), the youth organisation of the CDU and the Christian Social Union, the Badische Zeitung reported on 21 September 2010 that Schreiner had again been elected to the Baden-Württemberg state executive at the organisation’s Landestag. The Young Union’s archive of federal boards lists him as a Beisitzer on the board elected in Rostock for 2012–2014, then chaired by Philipp Mißfelder.

Schreiner has written that the 2013 state congress in Heilbronn elected him to the Landesvorstand of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg. After the 82nd state congress in Heidelberg on 5 and 6 December 2025, the state CDU listed him in the Präsidium, as chairman of the Baden-Württemberg group in the CDU/CSU Bundestag parliamentary party, as Waldshut district chairman, and as a member of the federal executive. That executive was chosen at the 38th CDU congress in Stuttgart on 20 February 2026. The official results give Schreiner 732 votes, 80.88 percent, among the further members of the Bundesvorstand; Friedrich Merz was elected party chairman the same day. The Badische Zeitung reported the election two days later.

Municipal and district mandates

Under Baden-Württemberg’s municipal code the Gemeinderat is a municipality’s main organ: it represents the citizens, sets administrative principles, decides municipal business unless the mayor is responsible by law, and oversees the administration. The mayor chairs it, and councillors serve five-year terms. Lauchringen’s council is the mayor, Heiko Weißenberger, plus 18 honorary councillors. The municipality says the last election was in 2024 and lists Schreiner for the CDU. Its information system records him as an ordinary CDU member from 1 July 2009 to 30 July 2014 and again from 31 July 2014, and from that date as CDU Fraktionssprecher, a member of the administrative committee and a deputy member of the technical committee. The Bundestag register of disclosable posts lists the seat as honorary.

District councils are elected on the same five-year cycle. Each of the 35 Landkreise has a Kreistag, which the state civic-education service calls the population’s representation and the district’s principal organ. The Landrat chairs it, members serve honorarily, and the district handles work that crosses municipal boundaries or exceeds one municipality, including connecting roads, hospitals and waste disposal. Schreiner states that he joined the Waldshut Kreistag on 25 May 2014—the Sunday of that year’s municipal elections—as its youngest member, for the electoral district of Waldshut-Tiengen, Dogern, Lauchringen and Weilheim, that he was re-elected in 2019 and 2024, and that he has been a deputy chairman since 2024. The district register lists “Schreiner MdB, Felix” as a CDU member and does not record a leadership function in that table. His Bundestag biography nonetheless calls him first deputy chairman of the Kreistag, and the disclosure of outside offices lists that role, like the council seat, as honorary. The biography also notes a former membership of the Hochrhein-Bodensee regional association.

Landtag of Baden-Württemberg

Elections of 2011 and 2016

Felix Schreiner was a member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg from 11 April 2011 until the end of 24 October 2017, holding the direct mandate for state constituency 59, Waldshut, at both the 2011 and 2016 elections. At the election of 27 March 2011 he succeeded Peter Straub of the Christian Democratic Union, who after 27 years in the Landtag and almost 15 as its president did not stand again. A Deutsche Presse-Agentur report described Schreiner, then a 25-year-old bank employee from Lauchringen, as the youngest CDU candidate in Baden-Württemberg.

For the election of 13 March 2016, under the constituency division of 2009 and 2010, Wahlkreis 59 comprised 21 municipalities of Waldshut district, including Waldshut-Tiengen, Bad Säckingen, Lauchringen, Laufenburg (Baden), Stühlingen and Jestetten, together with Rheinfelden (Baden) and Schwörstadt in Lörrach district. It did not cover the whole district: Bonndorf im Schwarzwald, St. Blasien, Grafenhausen, Ühlingen-Birkendorf, Wutach and neighbouring southern Black Forest municipalities voted in constituency 46, Freiburg I. Baden-Württemberg used a single vote for a constituency candidate: the leading candidate took the direct mandate, and further seats in the administrative region were filled by proportional compensation.

In the final 2011 count for Waldshut, 73,771 of 122,040 eligible voters took part, a turnout of 60.4 percent, and 72,613 votes were valid. Schreiner's CDU nomination received 28,482 votes, or 39.2 percent. The Social Democratic Party received 17,987 votes (24.8 percent), which produced a compensatory seat for Alfred Winkler of Rheinfelden (Baden). Alliance 90/The Greens received 16,737 votes (23.0 percent). The Free Democratic Party received 3,828 votes (5.3 percent).

Schreiner defended the direct mandate on 13 March 2016 in a much closer contest. Turnout rose to 64.5 percent, with 79,036 of 122,603 eligible voters participating and 78,199 valid votes. The CDU nomination, recorded for Schreiner of Lauchringen, fell to 24,099 votes (30.8 percent), 8.4 points below 2011. Alliance 90/The Greens reached 23,769 votes (30.4 percent), 7.4 points above 2011 and 330 behind the CDU. The Südkurier identified the Green candidate as Petra Thyen of Waldshut. The Alternative for Germany and the SPD each took 12.3 percent (9,647 and 9,601 votes), and the Free Democratic Party 5,803 (7.4 percent). The official seat table lists only Schreiner as elected from the constituency.

Committees, spokesperson roles and other bodies

In the 15th legislative period Schreiner sat on the social-affairs committee and the transport committee. In the 16th period he remained on the transport committee and also served on the environment committee. At his farewell on 12 October 2017, Landtag president Muhterem Aras described him as the CDU parliamentary group's spokesperson on labour-market policy, youth policy and aviation. His biography on the Bundestag website, which the parliament says rests on members' own information, describes the same years more broadly as service as the CDU Landtag group's spokesperson on transport and environmental policy.

On 26 May 2011 the Landtag elected him one of 16 parliamentary members of the Upper Rhine Council, eight of them from the CDU. The council is a German–French–Swiss assembly of parliamentarians and other elected office-holders from Alsace, northern and southern Baden, the southern Palatinate and north-western Switzerland, concerned with mutual information and political coordination on questions affecting the region. The Landtag re-elected him to it on 12 May 2016. Aras also noted that he had taken part in the International Parliamentary Lake Constance Conference.

He was not among the Landtag members proposed in May 2011 for appointment to the board of trustees of the State Centre for Political Education. On 12 October 2016 the Landtag did elect him to that Kuratorium, as one of five CDU members, with deputies from the other parliamentary groups and seven non-parliamentary members proposed by trade unions, adult-education bodies, the churches, employers and a youth organisation. Under the centre's founding notice, the minister-president appoints 17 Landtag members to the board for a legislative period on the parliament's proposal.

On the evening of 28 October 2016 a CDU assembly for the Bundestag constituency of Waldshut nominated Schreiner in Höchenschwand to succeed Thomas Dörflinger, who had said he would not run again. He was the only nominee and received about 96 percent of 251 valid votes. He told the meeting that his aim was to win the constituency directly and that he would not seek a place on the state list as insurance. After his election to the Bundestag, he notified the Landtag on 11 October 2017 that he would resign the state seat at the end of 24 October. On 25 October 2017 Sabine Hartmann-Müller, a 55-year-old business graduate and Ortsvorsteherin of Herten, a district of Rheinfelden, entered the Landtag in his place.

Bundestag elections

Constituency 288 Waldshut, in southwestern Baden-Württemberg, comprises the district of Waldshut and eighteen municipalities of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald. Voters for the Bundestag have two votes. The first, on the left of the ballot, selects a constituency candidate; through 2021 the candidate with the most first votes took the seat. The second, on the right, selects a party’s state list and fixes how many seats each party receives. From the 2025 election, after the 2023 reform, a party candidate who finishes first also needs the seat covered by the party’s second votes in the Land, a rule called Zweitstimmendeckung. A constituency candidate need not stand on the state list.

The constituency was created for the 1965 election. A Südkurier account of 22 September 2017 wrote that the Christian Democratic Union had taken the most votes at every Bundestag election there since then, and that five Christian Democrats had been directly elected, latterly Thomas Dörflinger, who held it at five elections from 1998. The Bundestag archive lists Thomas Dörflinger, a member since 1998, as directly elected in constituency 288. In 2013 the CDU first-vote share was 51.4 percent (65,009 votes). SWR wrote in August 2021 that the CDU had held the direct mandate from the start. Felix Schreiner’s results in 2017, 2021 and 2025 continued that sequence; the Bundestag biography calls him the directly elected member for Wahlkreis Waldshut (288) from 2017.

2017 election

Dörflinger did not stand again. At a CDU constituency assembly in Höchenschwand, reported by the Badische Zeitung on 31 October 2016, Schreiner was the only nominee and received about 96 percent of 251 valid votes. He said he meant to succeed Dörflinger by winning the district outright and did not intend to insure himself on the state list.

On 24 September 2017, 136,595 of 177,806 eligible voters took part (76.8 percent, up 4.2 points). Of 135,059 valid first votes the CDU received 56,528 (41.9 percent, down 9.6 points). Tagesschau, citing the federal returning officer, named Felix Schreiner as the winner on that share. The Badische Zeitung identified runner-up Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter of the Social Democratic Party on the party’s 24.1 percent (32,522 votes) and reported that she entered parliament on the state list. Alliance 90/The Greens took 16,030 (11.9 percent), the Alternative for Germany 12,388 (9.2 percent), the Free Democratic Party 8,402 (6.2 percent) and Die Linke 6,767 (5.0 percent). Second votes still put the CDU first, on 53,066 (39.3 percent, down 10.0 points). The SPD list, at 22,122 (16.4 percent), lagged its candidate, while the Greens (18,842; 13.9 percent), the FDP (14,647; 10.8 percent) and the AfD (13,299; 9.8 percent) all did better on the list than in the personal vote.

2021 election

On 26 September 2021 turnout was again 76.8 percent (136,195 of 177,275 eligible voters), with 134,877 valid first votes. Tagesschau’s table, whose totals match the returning officer’s final count, gave Schreiner 45,335 first votes (33.6 percent, down 8.2 points) and Rita Berta Schwarzelühr-Sutter 34,449 (25.5 percent). It named Jan-Lukas Schmitt (Greens) on 20,679 (15.3 percent), Andrea Susanne Zürcher (AfD) on 11,420 (8.5 percent), Jareem Khawaja (FDP) on 10,217 (7.6 percent) and Robert Anton Kuhlmann (Die Linke) on 3,606 (2.7 percent); dieBasis and the Free Voters followed on 3,975 (2.9 percent) and 3,482 (2.6 percent). Before polling day SWR noted that Schwarzelühr-Sutter stood third on the SPD state list and that Zürcher was the AfD’s first candidate in the district.

List votes pulled away from the personal result. The CDU took 35,595 second votes (26.4 percent, down 12.9 points), 7.2 points behind Schreiner. The SPD list rose to 30,782 (22.8 percent). The Greens (23,294; 17.3 percent) and the FDP (18,422; 13.6 percent) both beat their candidates; the AfD list was at 11,265 (8.3 percent) and Die Linke at 3,895 (2.9 percent).

2025 election

On 23 February 2025 turnout rose to 82.5 percent (145,383 of 176,262 eligible voters, up 5.7 points), with 144,405 valid first votes. The returning officer names Schreiner (CDU) on 54,467 votes, 37.7 percent (up 4.1 points), and runner-up Schwarzelühr-Sutter (SPD) on 26,958, 18.7 percent (down 6.9 points). He is listed among the members elected in a Baden-Württemberg constituency, at 37.7 percent.

The AfD’s 26,710 first votes (18.5 percent, up 10.0 points) finished 248 behind the SPD. The Greens took 16,809 (11.6 percent), Die Linke 6,839 (4.7 percent), the FDP 5,169 (3.6 percent), the Free Voters 4,321 (3.0 percent), Volt Germany 1,760 (1.2 percent) and dieBasis 1,372 (1.0 percent). Second votes reordered the field: the CDU 48,696 (33.7 percent, up 7.3 points), the AfD 27,607 (19.1 percent, up 10.7), the SPD 20,751 (14.3 percent, down 8.5), the Greens 19,776 (13.7 percent), Die Linke 8,199 (5.7 percent) and the FDP 7,212 (5.0 percent). Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, with no constituency candidate, received 5,752 second votes (4.0 percent).

Schreiner was not on the CDU Baden-Württemberg list. The Südkurier reported that he did not seek a place when the state delegate assembly set the list in Stuttgart on 14 December 2024, and that he wanted voters in Waldshut district and the High Black Forest to decide whether he remained their directly elected member. The state party’s candidate page listed him for constituency 288 with no list rank. Because a first-vote lead no longer brought a seat by itself, he asked supporters to give the CDU both votes.

Offices in the Bundestag and the CDU/CSU group

Committees and other parliamentary bodies

Felix Schreiner has sat in the Bundestag since 2017 as the directly elected member for Waldshut, constituency 288. In the 19th legislative period the archived biography lists him as a full member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and as a plenary secretary (Schriftführer), and as a deputy member of the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, of the Committee on Tourism, and of the study commission on artificial intelligence. Plenary secretaries, chosen on the proposal of the parliamentary groups, sit with the presiding officer, take requests to speak, keep the speakers' list and record votes.

In the 20th period the archive records him as a full member of the Transport Committee and of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development, and as Obmann — the CDU/CSU lead — on that council. On 19 December 2024 the group's press office, commenting on a motion to have the German Sustainability Strategy adopted by the Bundestag, called him the CDU/CSU sustainability spokesperson. His own site states that the 20th-period spokesperson role also put him on the group's executive board, and that from the 21st period his group office has been that of a parliamentary managing director.

The narrative still on his Bundestag page, which the administration says rests on members' own information, continues in the present tense to call him sustainability spokesperson, Obmann on the advisory council and a member of the Transport Committee. The structured list on the same page, dated 29 October 2026, instead records a full seat on the Council of Elders; deputy seats on the Committee on Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, on the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development and Future Issues, and on the Transport Committee; a full seat on the Mediation Committee; and the chair of the German-Swiss parliamentary group, with no Obmann office.

Printed paper 21/596 of 25 June 2025 proposed him as one of six CDU/CSU full members of the Mediation Committee under Article 77(2) of the Basic Law, with Andreas Jung as substitute. A later list of the committee's Bundestag members still included him, with Frederik Bouffier, Reinhard Brandl, Hendrik Hoppenstedt, Günter Krings and Catarina dos Santos-Wintz among the other CDU/CSU full members. The Council of Elders — the President, the vice-presidents and further members shared by group strength, including the groups' parliamentary managing directors — supports the President, recommends sitting weeks and the agenda, and is where disputes between groups are discussed. In April 2026 his office listed him as a member of the Council's Commission for Information and Communication (IuD-Kommission).

Parliamentary managing director

On 13 May 2025 the CDU/CSU group elected Hoppenstedt, dos Santos-Wintz and Schreiner as parliamentary managing directors, and recorded that Jens Spahn as chairman, Alexander Hoffmann as leader of the Christian Social Union state group, Steffen Bilger as first parliamentary managing director, and Reinhard Brandl as the CSU managing director and Bilger's deputy had already been elected the previous week, Spahn on 5 May. The Südkurier reported that Christian Democratic Union deputies, on Spahn's proposal, gave the member from Lauchringen just under 90 percent, a figure the paper took from his own announcement. In that announcement he said he was following Thorsten Frei and Nina Warken, managing directors in the previous term.

The group describes its executive board as the level that runs day-to-day business, with deputy chairs coordinating the working groups by subject and the managing directors taking the organizational and legal work. Those managing directors also meet before the Council of Elders, and the Bundestag says their arrangements then enter the Council's discussions. Schreiner told the Südkurier that he would support the chairman, coordinate work inside the group and treat stability of the coalition with the Social Democratic Party as part of the task, while remaining a deputy on the Transport Committee. By 2026 the published board had changed: Frei was listed as chairman and dos Santos-Wintz as first parliamentary managing director, with Brandl, Bouffier, Hoppenstedt and Schreiner as the other managing directors and Martin Plum and Thomas Silberhorn as legal advisers.

Baden-Württemberg state group

In May 2026 the CDU members from Baden-Württemberg elected Schreiner chairman of their Bundestag Landesgruppe on the first ballot, against Kai Whittaker and Yannick Bury. The Südkurier reported on 18 May that he was succeeding Andreas Jung, who was moving into state politics in Stuttgart; the Landesgruppe's announcement the next day said Jung had chaired the group for about ten years.

The announcement calls the Landesgruppe the association of all CDU Bundestag members from the state — 29 in the 21st period — formed to collect Baden-Württemberg's interests inside the parliamentary group and to put them to the leadership and the federal government. Already a parliamentary managing director, Schreiner thanked the group's manager, Marc Biadacz, called the result a vote of confidence, and said the Landesgruppe should carry the state's interests, including the economy, infrastructure, energy and electoral law, into the Bundestag group and the federal government.

Transport, infrastructure and sustainability

Transport and infrastructure

In the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, the Badische Zeitung reported on 8 June 2016 that Felix Schreiner, then a Christian Democratic Union deputy, had been elected chairman of his group's transport working circle. In the Bundestag he was a full member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the 19th term (2017–2021) and of the Transport Committee in the 20th (2021–2025); from 25 March 2025 the chamber lists him as a deputy member only. On 22 February 2018 the House also elected him a plenary secretary (Schriftführer), an office distinct from the committee.

On 18 March 2022 he spoke for the CDU/CSU on a motion to speed up transport projects. He said prosperity and climate targets both depended on infrastructure, that about 60 percent of people lived in rural areas, and that they should still be able to drive. He urged wider use of simplified planning approval and warned the government of the Social Democratic Party, Alliance 90/The Greens and the Free Democratic Party that reviewing the whole Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan would delay schemes rather than accelerate them. After a visit with a transport state secretary to the A 98, he told the House that Baden-Württemberg transport minister Winfried Hermann had declared the Hochrhein autobahn finished and had put the state's road schemes in the federal plan back under review.

The High Rhine railway remained a local subject. The Südkurier reported that in August 2026 Schreiner visited the Laufenburg works, including the Rappenstein tunnel, and said he had pressed for electrification since 2011. He called commuter disruption severe but the scheme a "project of the century," with just under half a billion euros invested; the paper reported electric trains aimed for December 2027.

Noise drew separate interventions. In a Badische Zeitung interview of 24 April 2023 he said many people in the Black Forest suffered motorcycle noise, and asked the coalition to back a CDU/CSU proposal aimed at "noise rowdies" by giving municipalities instruments against the problem. On aircraft noise, the Südkurier reported in September 2023 that Switzerland had applied to reclassify airspace north of Zurich Airport. After parliamentary state secretary Oliver Luksic said information was still missing, Schreiner replied that if southern German airspace was affected the ministry had to involve the High Rhine, and that such matters should not be "cleared away in secret." In a Staatsanzeiger interview of 16 January 2025 he said every motion he tabled in the sustainability council or the transport committee was rejected. Asked why he wanted more infrastructure spending but opposed loosening the debt brake (Schuldenbremse), he called it a question of priorities amid record tax receipts, and said wider borrowing mostly went with higher consumptive spending.

Sustainability and the advisory council

Abgeordnetenwatch records him, for the 20th Bundestag, as ordinary member and CDU/CSU Obmann (group lead) of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development. Minutes of 3 July 2024 list him among the ordinary members and record that he and Green deputy Susanne Menge reported from the Transport Committee. In the 21st term the body became the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development and Future Issues, and the Bundestag lists him as a deputy member from 25 March 2025.

His July 2024 report contrasted debate "in the Berlin bubble" with the Black Forest, cited forecasts still giving the car 68.3 percent of passenger transport in 2051, and argued for more maintenance spending rather than cuts then under discussion. He said he wanted more rail use but called the Deutschland-Ticket essentially a social fare that had not improved rural service, and blamed what he called a management failure at Deutsche Bahn. Describing himself as favourable to the car, he said policy had focused too narrowly on electric vehicles and argued for e-fuels, synthetic fuels and hydrogen, criticising the overnight end of the electric-car purchase bonus. Menge argued instead for less emphasis on road growth and more on climate-oriented infrastructure; chair Helmut Kleebank called the two accounts the conflict lines of the debate and closed the item.

On 24 September 2024 the CDU/CSU moved that the Bundestag adopt the German Sustainability Strategy, which the motion said was aligned with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals but decided by the government, leaving parliament largely a spectator and the council's check mostly formal. It asked that revisions be agreed with the Bundestag, that the council monitor progress, and that the rules of procedure add an annual "sustainability week," modelled on the budget weeks, with ministers present. At first reading on 19 December 2024 the group's notice called Schreiner its sustainability spokesperson. He said parliament should both debate sustainability and control progress, and that the governing parties had reduced it to climate and environmental protection, whereas sound finances, housing and networked mobility belonged with it. Green speaker Johannes Wagner called the wish to anchor the strategy in parliament sound but the drafting weak, and accused the Union of pairing the motion with an election programme that would unwind climate measures.

Constituency and German-Swiss relations

Waldshut and the Hochrhein

Bundestag constituency 288, Waldshut, takes in the whole of Waldshut district and 18 municipalities in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Titisee-Neustadt among them. At the end of 2023 it had 50 municipalities, 1,861.3 square kilometres and 252,500 inhabitants, with foreign nationals at 16.8 percent; unemployment was 4.0 percent in November 2024, and manufacturing was 36.5 percent of socially insured jobs in mid-2023. The district follows the Rhine and the Swiss border, while the added municipalities lie in the southern Black Forest. Schreiner's constituency office is at Hauptstrasse 18 in Waldshut-Tiengen. He grew up in Lauchringen, about five kilometres from the border.

The Rhine crossings between Waldshut-Tiengen in Germany and Koblenz in the canton of Aargau, on the Hochrhein.

The district handbook, using Swiss Federal Statistical Office data, counted 14,801 cross-border commuters in the fourth quarter of 2023, 20.5 percent of dependent employees; they do not appear in German statistics of employees at the place of residence. The share was above a third in Jestetten, Hohentengen am Hochrhein, Lottstetten and Dettighofen, and the largest flows ran to Aargau (7,060), Zurich (3,560) and Schaffhausen (1,409). In Switzerland as a whole, about 407,000 foreign cross-border workers held a G permit at the end of December 2024, 16.3 percent of them living in Germany. A January 2025 Staatsanzeiger portrait put daily crossings of the Rhine at about 60,000 and described Swiss residents shopping on the German side. In 2022 workplace employment equalled 44.5 percent of the district's resident population, against 56.8 percent in Baden-Württemberg.

The Hochrhein line from Basel to Erzingen, about 75 kilometres, is being electrified and upgraded for about 430 million Swiss francs. On 28 October 2024 Federal Councillor Albert Rösti and Land transport minister Winfried Hermann agreed a Swiss contribution of 50 million francs; Deutsche Bahn is the sponsor, with the German share from the federal transport ministry, the Land and the districts of Lörrach and Waldshut. From 2027 a Swiss Federal Railways subsidiary is to run a Hochrhein–Bodensee-Express, and Waldshut station is to become a junction. In September 2022 the National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste named Nördlich Lägern, beside Hohentengen, as its preferred deep-repository site, with surface installations a few kilometres from the border, and in November 2024 it filed the general-licence applications. German representatives are about 15 percent of the regional conference's roughly 130 delegates, and the federal nuclear-waste safety office coordinates cross-border consultation, with a formal public stage planned for spring 2028.

German-Swiss parliamentary group

The Bundestag's bilateral parliamentary groups are inter-factional associations of members, without their own rules or budget; a bilateral group may host one delegation and make one visit abroad per electoral term. The Deutsch-Schweizerische Parlamentariergruppe links the Bundestag to the National Council and the Council of States. The Bundestag lists Schreiner, a CDU/CSU member, as its chair, an office he already held in April 2019.

From 10 to 12 April 2019 he received a delegation including Council of States president Joachim Eder and Swiss People's Party National Councillors Adrian Amstutz and Albert Rösti. The Bundestag's account called Germany Switzerland's largest trading partner. The visitors pressed for the German feeder lines to the new Alpine base tunnels and for electrification of the Hochrhein route, toward which they offered a financial contribution. Schreiner said German members had argued for a government-proposed mediation over noise from Zurich Airport.

On 5 and 6 December 2022 he led a delegation to Bern and, with National Councillor Céline Widmer, backed a restart of talks with the European Union after the institutional framework agreement failed. He said that failure left social-security questions open for more than 60,000 commuters, and that German interests in the repository search required a cross-border environmental assessment. He also raised Dublin procedures at the border, a gas-shortage solidarity agreement with the Federal Council, further Rhine bridges, joint customs clearance and digital export certificates. The delegation included Lina Seitzl (SPD), Ann-Veruschka Jurisch (FDP) and Gerrit Huy of the Alternative for Germany.

On 20 December 2024 European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Swiss Confederation president Viola Amherd announced that negotiations on a package of agreements were complete, though signature and ratification were still ahead. It would update several internal-market agreements, including transport and free movement, and add cooperation on electricity, health and Union programmes. In January 2025 Schreiner called an agreement essential for the border region and said it had been right to keep approaching, including in smaller steps. Asked about the Swiss People's Party, and about Alice Weidel's regard for it, he said it should not be equated with the AfD, which treated it as a partner the Swiss party did not want to be.

Civic roles and outside interests

Music, charity and local associations

The Bundestag register of notifiable interests lists Felix Schreiner as unpaid president of Blasmusikverband Hochrhein e.V. in Waldshut-Tiengen and, from 9 May 2026, as unpaid president of the Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Musikverbände e.V. in Plochingen. The Badische Zeitung reported that the Hochrhein association elected him unanimously at its general meeting in March 2015, while he sat in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg.

In March 2025 the association's secretary reported 5,774 members in 101 clubs, which the Badische Zeitung called a record and linked to youth work and training. On 9 May 2026 the Bundesvereinigung's general assembly in Fulda elected him to succeed Paul Lehrieder, president for the previous ten years. The newspaper described the body as the national umbrella of German wind-music associations, with about 500,000 active musicians.

The register also lists an unpaid seat on the supervisory board of Caritasverband Hochrhein e.V. in Waldshut-Tiengen, a local Caritas association, recorded by Abgeordnetenwatch under social policy since January 2018. It shows unpaid membership of the municipal council of Lauchringen, of the Waldshut district council, and the unpaid deputy chair of that council. On his website he adds the board of the Lauchringer Handels- und Gewerbekreis, the carnival society Narrenverein „Schwanenmühle“, and the Lions Club Waldshut. The Badische Zeitung reported in July 2023 that he had led that Lions club for the year then ending and handed the presidency to Frank Greiser of Lenzkirch.

Disclosed paid and corporate roles

The register, kept under sections 45 and following of the Members of the Bundestag Act, gives his occupation before the Bundestag as member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. From 1 January 2026 it lists him on the supervisory board of Toll Collect GmbH in Berlin, at 4,000 euros gross a year. Toll Collect states that it has run Germany's lorry-toll system since 1 January 2005 and that the Federal Republic has been sole shareholder since 1 September 2018. Its supervisory board has twelve members, from the shareholder and the workforce, and lists him as a CDU/CSU member of the Bundestag and parliamentary managing director of the CDU/CSU group.

The 2017 accounts of Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH list „Felix Schreiner, MdL“ on the supervisory board until 5 December 2017. In a November 2016 reply on Abgeordnetenwatch he said he sat on the advisory board, not the supervisory board, of Energiedienst Holding AG in Laufenburg, Switzerland, and was not involved in operations. He called the body non-partisan, concerned with strategic energy questions such as the energy transition, and approved by the Landtag president.

A March 2021 question on Abgeordnetenwatch, citing the disclosure then published by the Bundestag, said that from 1 January 2020 to 26 February 2021 a monthly level-1 entry named his Lauchringen sole proprietorship TeamSConsult and the Hamm law firm Wolter Hoppenberg. Schreiner answered that he had advised the firm on strategy and internal processes, that the Bundestag president had been notified and had approved the work from the first day, and that it did not overlap with the mandate. He said pay followed time spent and expenses, was published in level 1, and that he closed the proprietorship when the work ended. Asked in that exchange about members and protective equipment, he said that anyone who had enriched themselves by brokering medical products and masks had acted improperly and did not belong in parliament. These replies are his account. On his website he states that the Energiedienst advisory role ended on 31 December 2018, and that the Wolter Hoppenberg fee, published in level 1, was more than 1,000 euros and up to 3,500 euros and fully taxed.

Political positions and public debate

Reported positions

In a January 2025 Staatsanzeiger portrait, Felix Schreiner, then a CDU member of the Bundestag in opposition, quoted Franz Müntefering that "Opposition ist Mist", because his motions were rejected. Asked why he wanted more infrastructure spending yet opposed loosening the debt brake (Schuldenbremse), he called it a question of priorities amid record tax receipts: extra borrowing, he said, mostly accompanied consumption spending, and the brake already allowed debt. On contacts with the Swiss People's Party, raised with reference to Alice Weidel, he said the AfD should not be equated with the SVP, which did not want to be the partner the AfD claimed.

He has argued that the European Union's asylum system does not work and that border controls are needed against illegal entry. A constituent wrote that at a Südkurier forum in Waldshut on 20 January 2025 Schreiner backed lasting strict controls toward Switzerland, and that the paper later printed the opposite. The roll-call of 29 January 2025 shows him voting yes on the CDU/CSU motion in Drucksache 20/14698, carried by 348 to 344 with 10 abstentions, which sought permanent controls on every German border and the turning back of attempted illegal entries even where protection was claimed. On 7 February he wrote that he had not changed his mind: controls which interior minister Nancy Faeser began at the Swiss border in October 2023 had, on his account, brought arrests of smugglers without disturbing the Schengen Area, and should last until the EU's external borders were better protected.

He has been a parliamentary managing director of the CDU/CSU Bundestag group since May 2025. At a regulars' table in Görwihl, reported by the Südkurier on 7 September 2026, he said irregular immigration had been limited more strictly and that controls should stay, while Germany still needed legal immigration; he rejected ending the "firewall" (Brandmauer) toward the AfD. He also said the Bundeswehr and infrastructure needed heavy spending, and that about 20 billion euros had to be saved in statutory health insurance.

On an AfD ban, he told Abgeordnetenwatch on 3 September 2026 that a study by the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte left his caution unchanged. A ban, on his account, is the sharpest tool of the constitutional state and should be sought only on a firm legal basis where success is clearly likely, because failure before the Federal Constitutional Court would help the AfD; otherwise the party should be opposed politically and, where unconstitutional activity was proved, by ordinary law.

Criticism and transparency

The forum drew a reply from Dieter Flügel, an SPD city councillor in Waldshut-Tiengen. The Südkurier of 27 January 2025 and the Badische Zeitung of 29 January reported him saying that, on migration and the debt brake, Schreiner lacked objectivity and honesty, describing a "problematische Mischung aus verkürzten Behauptungen und ideologischen Angriffen auf andere Parteien". Schreiner answered on 29 and 31 January that he was surprised by a "Schmutzkampagne" from the SPD chairman in Tiengen, and that the insults were groundless; the Badische Zeitung said he also addressed EU asylum law and the debt brake. The CDU district association, the Südkurier reported, said hostility toward him was rising.

Other questions have concerned roles published for the 19th electoral term. The archived Bundestag biography lists TeamSConsult of Lauchringen as business advice until 26 February 2021, and advice to the Hamm firm Wolter Hoppenberg at monthly income bracket 1 (Stufe 1), plus an advisory-board seat at Energiedienst Holding AG in Laufenburg, Switzerland, until 31 December 2018, filed under corporate functions rather than paid sidelines. Asked in 2021 what that work was, and why TeamSConsult was absent from the commercial register and his website, he wrote that it was time-limited advice on the firm's internal processes, approved by the Bundestag president, without overlap with the mandate, and ended in February 2021. Answering a question posted on 27 November 2016, he wrote that the Energiedienst seat was an advisory board, not a supervisory board, approved by the Landtag president and without a conflict of interest on his account. These sources do not report a court or regulatory finding on the roles.

Abgeordnetenwatch states that he has not given its Transparenz-Versprechen, five pledges offered to candidates before the 2021 election on corporate donations, independent oversight, a lobby register, members' income and spending, and lobby contacts. Asked on 28 August 2021 what he would promise, he replied on 9 September that side jobs should not be banned outright, citing section 44a of the Members of the Bundestag Act, and that he instead backed tighter CDU/CSU rules on paid lobbying, high side income and bribery of members.