Michael Kruse (politician)

After graduating with a bachelor in economics, Kruse worked as an independent business consultant in Hamburg and Berlin until 2011.

Since his election to the Hamburg Parliament in March 2015 he has been pursuing this activity again and has since also worked as commercial director of the Heidelberg-based consulting firm Cogitars GmbH.

His topics were in particular the classical Economic policy such as port,[4] skilled crafts and trade[5] and industry as well as the strengthening of Hamburg's start-up scene.

[9] The following day, he was also elected as the new state chairman of the Elbe Liberals, succeeding Katja Suding.

In November 2024, Kruse announced that he would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.