The deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group, Bärbel Bas, is to become the new President of the Bundestag.
The top of the parliamentary group proposes the 53-year-old for the office, it was said on Wednesday from parliamentary groups.
The executive committee had unanimously followed the suggestion of the group leader Rolf Mützenich, confirmed a group spokesman.
The group has yet to confirm the identity.
Then Bas could be elected next Tuesday at the constituent session of the Bundestag.
After the Federal President and before the Chancellor, the President of the Bundestag is one of the highest-ranking offices in the German state.
The President is elected by the Bundestag; the most important task is to lead the plenary sessions.
The office is usually occupied by the largest parliamentary group, so it falls to the SPD after the federal election.
For the Social Democrats, however, the occupation was difficult: they wanted to prevent the Federal President, the President of the Bundestag and the Federal Chancellor from being held by men in all of the highest state offices.
Among the experienced women in the parliamentary group, however, no candidate for the office was initially imposed.
Although the SPD parliamentary group has a comparatively high proportion of women at 42 percent, many of them are still young or have only just entered parliament.
First of all, parliamentary group leader Mützenich was therefore also in discussion.
The women in the SPD had recently put pressure on their parliamentary group to definitely fill the office with a woman.
If the SPD does not appoint a President of the Bundestag, the intended second term of office of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is in danger, because then one would have to make a woman Federal President, it was said.
The former integration commissioner of the federal government, Aydan Özoguz, is to become vice-president for the SPD in the Bundestag.