Manuel Höferlin (born 6 February 1973) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate from 2009 till 2013 and since 2017.
[1] Höferlin was born in Paris and moved to Harxheim in Rheinhessen at the age of five.
Due to the failure of his party to reach the five percent hurdle in the 2013 federal elections, he resigned from the Bundestag.
[3] In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 German elections, Höferlin was part of his party's delegation in the working group on digital innovation and infrastructure, co-chaired by Jens Zimmermann, Malte Spitz and Andreas Pinkwart.
[4] In November 2024, Höferlin announced that he would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.