The Party of Democratic Socialism was a left-wing populist political party in Germany active between 1989 and 2007. It was the legal successor to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED),which ruled the German Democratic Republic as a state party until 1990. From 1990 through to 2005,the PDS had been seen as the left-wing "party of the East". While it achieved minimal support in western Germany,it regularly won 15% to 25% of the vote in the eastern new states of Germany,entering coalition governments with the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the federal states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin.
Lothar Bisky was a German politician. He was the chairman of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS),the successor of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party (SED). In June 2007 he became co-chairman of The Left party,formed by a merger of the PDS and the much smaller Labour and Social Justice –The Electoral Alternative. From 2007 until 2010 he was the President of the Party of the European Left. Also,he was the Publisher of the socialist newspaper Neues Deutschland.
Katja Kipping is a German politician of The Left party. She was a member of the Bundestag representing Saxony from 2005 to 2021,a federal co-leader of The Left from 2012 to 2021 alongside Bernd Riexinger,and the Senator for Integration,Labour and Social Affairs in the Berlin state government from December 2021 to April 2023.
Teltow [German pronunciation:['tɛltoː] ] is a town in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district,in Brandenburg,Germany.
General elections were held in East Germany on 18 March 1990,and were the first and only free elections held in the state before German reunification. The Alliance for Germany,led by the new East German branch of the right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU),won 192 seats and emerged as the largest bloc in the 400-seat Volkskammer,having run on a platform of speedy reunification with West Germany. The East German branch of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),which had been dissolved in 1946 and refounded only six months before the elections,finished second with 88 seats despite being widely expected to win. The former Socialist Unity Party of Germany,restyled as the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS),finished third with 66 seats the first free election in which it participated.
Brandenburg an der Havel –Potsdam-Mittelmark I –Havelland III –Teltow-Fläming I is an electoral constituency represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system,it is designated as constituency 60. It is located in western Brandenburg,comprising the city of Brandenburg an der Havel,most of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district,and parts of the Havelland and Teltow-Fläming districts.
Jana Schimke is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who is a member of the Bundestag,the German federal parliament.
Michael Schumann was a German philosophy professor who became an East German advocate for reform and a politician during the build-up to German reunification. He is widely seen as a pioneer of the Party of Democratic Socialism which superseded the Socialist Unity Party in the German Democratic Republic in 1989/90.
Marlies Deneke is a German politician.
Ursula Fischer is a German former national politician (PDS).
Angelika Barbe is a German biologist who became a politician.
Dagmar Enkelmann is a German politician of Die Linke party.
Bernd Meier was a German politician (SED/PDS) and official of the FDJ. He served as first party secretary of the party leadership ("Bezirksleitung") for the Frankfurt (Oder) region and then as a member of the national parliament (Volkskammer) during the eventful run-up to reunification.
Else Ackermann was a German physician and pharmacologist who became an East German politician. The report on the power relationships between the citizen and the state which she drafted,and in 1988 presented,known as the "Neuenhagen Letter",was a significant precursor to the changes of 1989 which led to the ending,in the early summer of 1990,of the one-party system,followed by German reunification later that same year.
Dietmar Keller was an East German politician (SED/PDS) who served as Minister for Culture in the Modrow government. After reunification he sat as a member of the German parliament ("Bundestag") between 1990 and 1994.
Potsdam –Potsdam-Mittelmark II –Teltow-Fläming II is an electoral constituency represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system,it is designated as constituency 61. It is located in western Brandenburg,comprising the city of Potsdam and small parts of the Potsdam-Mittelmark and Teltow-Fläming districts.
Linda Teuteberg is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2017,she was elected as General Secretary of the FDP on 26 April 2019 and thereby became part of the party's leadership around chairman Christian Lindner. Lindner asked for and received her resignation effective 19 September 2020.
Dietlind Tiemann is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg from 2017–2021.
Sonja Katharina Eichwede is a German lawyer and politician representing the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She was elected to the Bundestag in the 2021 German federal election.
Dieter Helm was a German farmer and politician who served in the Landtag of Brandenburg from 1990 to 2009 and in the parliament of East Germany,the Volkskammer,in 1990. Helm represented the area around Potsdam first as a member of the Democratic Farmers' Party and later the Christian Democratic Union.
