Jacob Schrot is head of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s office and has been coordinator of the National Security Council Staff Unit in the Chancellery since September 2025. Few people are as close to the chancellor as the 35-year-old Brandenburg native; he headed Merz’s parliamentary office from 2022 until the CDU/CSU’s success in the Bundestag elections. Schrot also previously worked in the Chancellery’s foreign policy department for two years. He also maintains close ties to Washington: in addition to positions at the German Marshall Fund and in the US Congress, he also worked in the ZDF studio in the US capital. He was also president of the Association of German-American Clubs and founder of the Young Transatlanticists Initiative.
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Jacob Schrot
Head of Staff Unit National Security Council
Federal Chancellery
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Jacob Schrot is head of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s office and has been coordinator of the National Security Council Staff Unit in the Chancellery since September 2025. Few people are as close to the chancellor as the 35-year-old Brandenburg native; he headed Merz’s parliamentary...