Christian Lindner has made the first important personnel decisions.
The FDP chairman brings his party friends Katja Hessel and Florian Toncar to Wilhelmstrasse.
The deputies become parliamentary state secretaries.
Lindner praised them to the FAZ as "technically and operationally outstanding personalities".
Toncar is also a long-time confidante who, alongside Marco Buschmann, managed the parliamentary group's business for him.
Manfred Schäfers
Business correspondent in Berlin.
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The FDP politician from Baden-Württemberg also made a name for himself in public in the last legislative period when he made a few witnesses sweat with his questions on the Wirecard investigative committee. Hessel most recently headed the Bundestag Finance Committee. From 2008 to 2013 she was State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs.
The newcomers at Lindner's side are both lawyers. Born in Nuremberg, Hessel is 49 years old, Toncar was born in Hamburg in 1979 and represents the Böblingen district as a member of parliament.
Steffen Saebisch, who is to become the permanent state secretary in the Ministry of Finance, also studied law. Last but not least, he will coordinate government work there in the future, as Wolfgang Schmidt has done for Olaf Scholz (SPD) in recent years.
Saebisch is still managing director of the FDP-affiliated Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, but he had already taken a leave of absence during the coalition negotiations in order to be able to work on the traffic light contract for the Liberals.
The native of Tübingen (born 1970), like Hessel, has government experience.
From 2009 to 2014 he was State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Transport and Regional Development.
A comprehensive interview with Christian Lindner appears in the Friday edition of the FAZ