Manuel Gava (born 20 February 1991 in Pieve di Cadore, Italy) is a German-Italian politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who was a member of the Bundestag for Osnabrück City from 2021 to 2025.
After completing secondary school at the IGS Aar, he initially worked in his father's ice cream parlour.
Since then, he has been working for a wholesale company that supplies bakeries, confectioners, catering businesses and ice cream cafés.
[4] Gava joined the SPD in 2016 and a year later became deputy chairman of the Juso AG Osnabrück city.
[12] In December 2024, Gava admitted to frequent use of cocaine and announced that he would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign by the end of the parliamentary term.