Carsten Träger, a German politician and member of the Bundestag since 2013, died on March 21, 2026, aged 52.
A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), he represented Bavaria in the Bundestag from 2013 until his death. Träger was born in Fürth, Bavaria, West Germany, on October 25, 1973.
In parliament, he served on the Committee on Food and Agriculture and the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. From 2018, he was his parliamentary group’s spokesperson on environmental policy. In 2025, he became Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Climate Protection and Nuclear Safety in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
Carsten Träger (25 October 1973 – 21 March 2026) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 2013 until his death in 2026.