Marcus Optendrenk (born 1969) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia since 29 June 2022.

[1] From 2005 to 2010, he served as the chief of staff to Helmut Linssen, who was then State Minister of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia.

[2] After holding a posting at the state's ministry of finance for two years,[1] A member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), Optendrenk held several leadership positions in the local party association and its youth wing, Young Union, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

[4] According to Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, he was considered for a positions in Laschet's cabinet[2] but became deputy chairman of the CDU's parliamentary group instead.

[5] In late 2022, Optendrenk's budget was found to be unconstitutional by the state's auditing authority for reappropriating more than four billion Euro of debt taken on for the purpose of Covid-19 relief.