After studying political science, Johannes Schraps was a parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament in Brussels from 2011 to 2013. From 2013 to 2017, he was a research assistant in the German Bundestag in the office of Heinz-Joachim Barchmann (SPD), deputy chairman of the European Affairs Committee. He joined the SPD in 1999 and has been a member of the sub-district executive of the SPD Hameln-Pyrmont since 2015. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 2017.