Cem Ince | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2025 | |
Constituency | Lower Saxony |
Personal details | |
Born | Salzgitter,Germany | 9 December 1993
Political party | The Left |
Cem Hamit Ince (born 9 December 1993) is a German politician and member of the Bundestag. [1] A member of The Left,he has represented Lower Saxony since 2025.
Ince was born on 9 December 1993 in Salzgitter and is of Kurdish origin. [1] [2] His grandfather moved from Eastern Anatolia to Salzgitter in the late 1960s as a guest worker and worked in the blast furnaces of Salzgitter AG. [2] [3] Ince's father also did his apprenticeship and worked at Salzgitter AG before moving to the Volkswagen factory in Salzgitter. [2] [3] His grandfather and father were also trade unionists. [2]
Ince graduated from Kranich-Gymnasium Salzgitter in 2012 and then trained to be electronics technician at VW Salzgitter from 2012 to 2015. [1] He also studied business administration and software development at VW Salzgitter. [1] He is an IG Metall member and has been a shop steward at VW Salzgitter since 2012. [1] [2] He was the youth and trainee representative at VW Salzgitter from 2014 to 2016 and the chair youth and trainee representative from 2016 to 2020. [1] [2] He has been a member of the IG Metall shop steward council at VW Salzgitter since 2022. [1]
Ince has been chairman of The Left's branch in Salzgitter since 2021. [1] He was The Left's candidate in Salzgitter –Wolfenbüttel (constituency 49) at the 2025 federal election but was not elected. [4] [5] He was however elected to the Bundestag on The Left's state list in Lower Saxony. [6]