Bartholomäus Kalb (born 13 July 1949 in Mamming, Bavaria, West Germany) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).^[1][2]

In 1972, Kalb was elected to the municipal council of Künzing.

From 1978 to 2002 he held the office of second mayor of the municipality. From 1978 to 1986, he was a member of the Landtag of Bavaria.

From 1987 until 2017, Kalb served as a member of the Bundestag, elected directly from the Deggendorf constituency. He was a member of the Committee on Budgets of the Bundestag, a member of the Audit Committee (a subcommittee of the Committee on Budgets), a deputy member of the Finance Committee, as well as a member of the Federal Funding body.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in 2009, Kalb was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on taxes and finances, led by Thomas de Maizière and Hermann Otto Solms. Later, in the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats (SPD) following the 2013 federal elections, he was again part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on financial policy and the national budget, this time led by Wolfgang Schäuble and Olaf Scholz.

• Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Member of the Administrative Council (2002-2017)
• KfW, Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors (since 2003)^[3]
• Sparkasse Deggendorf, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 1998)
• German Transport Infrastructure Financing Company (VIFG), Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2009)
• Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 1998)^[4]
• Southeast Europe Association (SOG), Vice President (1998-2006)

In June 2017, Kalb voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.^[5]

Kalb is a Roman Catholic; he is married and has two children.