Johannes Friedrich Kretschmann (born 14 July 1978) is a German politician from the Alliance 90/The Greens. He was briefly a member of the German Bundestag in 2025 .

Johannes Kretschmann grew up as the second of three children of the later Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann and his wife Gerlinde, first in Leinfelden-Echterdingen and from 1984 in the Sigmaringen district of Laiz [de]. In 1998 he graduated from the Hohenzollern-Gymnasium Sigmaringen [de]. From 1998 to 2009 he studied religious studies, Romanian studies and linguistics at the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. He graduated with a Magister Artium. From 2008 to 2010 he was a opening act at hart aber fair, then a moster at Tübingen and from 2011 to 2012 a pallbearer at a funeral home. From 2011 to 2019 he worked as an online editor [de] for the Swiss online newspaper bluewin.ch. From February to May 2022, he worked as a Sachbearbeiter [de] for Anja Reinalter, member of the Bundestag.

Kretschmann works as a freelance cultural worker. He is committed to preserving the dialect of Swabian German. He has been a volunteer dialect consultant to the Baden-Württemberg state government since 2019 and a member of the advisory board of the Center for Dialect at the Weingarten University of Education [de] since 2020. He lives in Laiz [de].^[1]

Kretschmann was initially Roman Catholic, but later left the church.^[2]

Kretschmann built up a local group of the Green-Alternative Youth in Sigmaringen in 1994. In 1999 he joined the Greens. Since 2014 he has been a member of the district council of the Sigmaringen district, and since 2019 he has been chairman of the local Green parliamentary group.^[3]

In the 2021 German federal election, Kretschmann ran in the Zollernalb – Sigmaringen constituency and was ranked 21st on the Green Party's state list.^[4] On 27 January 2025, he replaced the MP Stephanie Aeffner in the Bundestag for the remaining few weeks of the legislative period after her death.^[5][6] He did not stand in the 2025 German federal election.^[7]

• Antisemitismus und magisches Denken. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8288-2460-7.
• gemeinsam mit Johannes Berreth und Dennis Dreher: Neigschmeggd: Schwäbisch vegan. Gräfe und Unzer [de], München 2023, ISBN 978-3-8338-8844-1.

• Biographie beim Deutschen Bundestag
• Website von Johannes Kretschmann
• Johannes Kretschmann on abgeordnetenwatch.de
• Literature by and about Johannes Kretschmann in the German National Library catalogue
• Works by and about Johannes Kretschmann in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library)