Torsten Herbst (born 22 August 1973) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony since 2017.

[2] After graduating, he worked as an editorial assistant at Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and later in the press office of ADAC Sachsen.

He continued to practise his profession to a limited extent during his time as a member of the Landtag.

Torsten Herbst was a founding member of the Young Liberal Action Saxony (Jungliberale Aktion Sachsen, JuliA) in the post-reunification period and its state chair from 1997 to 2000.

Since 2019, he has also been a member of the federal executive committee of the FDP, under the leadership of chair Christian Lindner.