Michael Georg Link (born 6 February 1963) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2013 and again since 2017.

In addition to his parliamentary mandate, Link served as First Deputy Foreign Minister (Minister of State for Europe) in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2013 and as the Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz from 2022 to 2024.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal elections, he was part of the FDP delegation in the working group on foreign affairs, defense and development policy, led by Franz Josef Jung and Werner Hoyer.

Link left the Bundestag as well as his office as Minister of State as a result of the change of government after the 2013 German federal election.

[2][3] In his capacity as director, Link notably attended a 2015 court hearing related to the case of Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian Air Force pilot and Member of Parliament charged with complicity in the murder of two Russian journalists near Luhansk, at the Moscow City Court.

In addition to his committee assignments, Link has been serving as substitute member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

He also was elected deputy chairperson of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group under the leadership of chair Rik Daems in 2018.