Luigi Pantisano

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Luigi Pantisano
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Luigi Pantisano in 2024
Member of the Bundestag
from Baden-Württemberg
Incumbent
Assumed office
2025
Personal details
Born (1979-07-28) 28 July 1979 (age 45)
Waiblingen
Political party Die Linke

Luigi Pantisano (born 28 July 1979) is a German politician from Die Linke. He has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2025 German federal election.

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Life

Youth and education

Luigi Pantisano was born to Italian parents and grew up with his brother Alfonso Pantisano [1] as a toddler in Calabria. [2] After attending the Staufer Haupt-und Werkrealschule in Waiblingen and training as an architectural draftsman, [3] Pantisano studied architecture at the Stuttgart Technology University of Applied Sciences and the Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2000 to 2005. He subsequently studied urban planning at the University of Stuttgart (HfT) and graduated with a degree in engineering in 2008. [4]

Professional activities

From 2009 to 2014, he worked as a district manager  [ de ] in Konstanz, and from 2011 to 2015, he was an academic assistant for research and teaching at the Urban Planning Institute of the University of Stuttgart. In 2015, he held various teaching positions at the Universities of Stuttgart and Konstanz, as well as at the Stuttgart University of Technology and Design (HTWG). [4]

From 2015 to 2016, Pantisano was political director of the SÖS-Linke-PluS parliamentary group in the Stuttgart city council and, in 2017, a research assistant to Bernd Riexinger. [4]

Political career

Luigi Pantisano's involvement in local politics began, according to his own statements, around 1999. [5] In 2017, he joined the Left Party. In 2020, he ran for mayor of Konstanz. After being ahead in the first round of voting, he lost to incumbent Ulrich Burchardt  [ de ] in the second round.

In 2021, Pantisano was deputy state spokesperson for Die Linke Baden-Württemberg  [ de ]. [4] From 2022 to 2024, Pantisano was a member of the party's federal executive committee. [3]

In the 2025 German federal election, Luigi Pantisano ran in the Stuttgart I constituency and entered the German Bundestag via second vote on the state list.

He is a member of the party's internal movement left. [6]

Memberships

Pantisano is a member of the Chamber of Architects of Baden-Württemberg  [ de ], [4] the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists (VVN-BdA) and the United Services Union (ver.di).

References

  1. ↑ "Alfonso Pantisano: Waiblinger ist Queerbeauftragter von Berlin – so war sein Weg". zvw.de (in German). 2023-07-16. Retrieved 2025-02-27.
  2. ↑ "Zu meiner Person". Die Linke KV Stuttgart (in German). 2025-02-14. Retrieved 2025-02-27.
  3. 1 2 "Deutscher Bundestag – Luigi Pantisano". bundestag.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-22.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Die Linke (ed.). "Luigi Pantisano". die-linke.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-22.
  5. ↑ "Fraktion DIE LINKE UND SÖS". diefraktion-stuttgart.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-22.
  6. ↑ "Bewegungslinke". Bewegungslinke (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-22.
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