Susanna Karawanskij (born in May 7, 1980, in Leipzig, East Germany) is a German politician of the party The Left  and since September 9, 2021 Minister of Infrastructure and Agriculture in Thuringia.

Prior to that, she was Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family in the state of Brandenburg from 2018 to 2019.

On September 19, 2018, Karawanskij was sworn in as Brandenburg Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family Affairs in the Woidke II cabinet, succeeding Diana Golze, who had resigned from her post in the wake of the Lunapharm scandal involving inadequate cancer drugs.

[3] On November 20, 2019, she left her government post with the formation of the Woidke III cabinet.

[4][5] On March 4, 2020, she was appointed State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture in the Ramelow II cabinet,[6] responsible for housing, construction, and transportation.