Marco Buschmann (born 1 August 1977) is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as Federal Minister of Justice in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet from 2021 to November 2024.

From 2007 until 2009, Buschmann worked as a lawyer at the Düsseldorf office of international law firm White & Case.

[5] Following the negotiations, the FDP entered the government as part of a coalition agreement, and Buschmann took office as Justice Minister in the Scholz cabinet.

[7] Shortly afterward, he introduced legislation that would cut the red tape required for changing a person's name and gender, abolishing a controversial 1980 law regulating the process.

[8] In October 2023, Buschmann participated in the first joint cabinet retreat of the German and French governments in Hamburg, chaired by Scholz and President Emmanuel Macron.

[9][10] According to research by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in late July 2024 Buschmann ordered Public Prosecutor General Jens Rommel to release the convicted russian murderer Vadim Krasikov based upon §459a of the code of criminal procedure.