Maren Kaminski

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Maren Kaminski
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Maren Kaminski, Member of the Bundestag (2025)
Member of the Bundestag
from Lower Saxony
Incumbent
Assumed office
2025
Personal details
Born (1979-02-15) 15 February 1979 (age 46)
Bramsche
Political party Die Linke (since 2009)
Other political
affiliations		 PDS (2002–2009)
SDP (until 2002)
Alma mater Leibniz University Hannover

Maren Kaminski (born 15 February 1979) is a German politician from Die Linke. She was elected to the Bundestag in the 2025 German federal election.

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Life

Kaminski studied social sciences at the Leibniz University Hannover. [1] She then became union secretary of the Education and Science Union. [2] She lives in the Linden-Limmer borough of Hanover and has a daughter. [1] [2]

Political career

She was initially a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and active in the Young Socialists (Jusos). [2] As a result of the Hartz reforms of the Schröder government, she switched to the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). [2] In 2013, she ran as a mayoral candidate for The Left Party in Hanover. [2] From 2007 to 2013, she was monitored by the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which had placed an informant  [ de ] on her. [2] [3] She is the district chairwoman of The Left Party in Hanover.

State elections

In the 2013 Lower Saxony state election, she ran as a direct candidate in the Hanover-Buchholz constituency  [ de ].

She ran as a direct candidate in the Langenhagen constituency  [ de ] in the 2022 Lower Saxony state election.

Federal elections

In the 2005 German federal election, she ran as a direct candidate in the constituency of Hannover-Land I for Die Linke.

In the 2009 German federal election, she ran as a direct candidate in the Osnabrück City constituency for Die Linke.

In the 2025 German federal election, Kaminski ran as a direct candidate in the constituency of Hannover II and on the list position of the Die Linke Lower Saxony  [ de ]. She won 10,888 (5.5%) of the first votes. [4] She was elected to the Bundestag via the state list. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 Elisabeth Woldt (24 February 2025). ""Achterbahn der Gefühle": Maren Kaminski (Linke) zieht als neue Abgeordnete für Hannover in den Bundestag ein". Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Conrad von Meding/Tobias Kurz (25 February 2025). "Plötzlich im Bundestag: Maren Kaminski aus Hannover geht nach Berlin". Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . Archived from the original on 26 February 2025. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  3. ↑ Andreas Speit (20 January 2022). "Verfassungsschutz-Beobachtung von Linken: Begründung? Fehlanzeige". Tageszeitung . Archived from the original on 26 February 2025. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  4. ↑ "Results Hannover-Land II - The Federal Returning Officer". bundeswahlleiterin.de. Archived from the original on 22 March 2025. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
  5. ↑ "6 Abgeordnete ziehen über die Landesliste für Niedersachsen in den Bundestag ein!". Die Linke Niedersachsen . 25 February 2025. Archived from the original on 26 February 2025. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
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