Sahra Wagenknecht is a German politician,economist,author,and publicist. Since 2009,she has been a member of the Bundestag for The Left. From 2015 to 2019,she served as the parliamentary co-chair of her party.
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.
Dietmar Gerhard Bartsch is a German politician who has served as co-chair of The Left parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2015. Prior,he served as federal treasurer of The Left from 2006 to 2009 and federal managing officer from 2005 to 2010. He was a prominent member of The Left's predecessor party,the PDS,of which he served as treasurer from 1991 to 1997 and federal managing officer from 1997 to 2002.
The Left,commonly referred to as the Left Party,is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The party was founded in 2007 as the result of the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and Labour and Social Justice –The Electoral Alternative. Through the PDS,the party is the direct descendant of the Marxist–Leninist ruling party of the former East Germany,the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Since 2022,The Left's co-chairpersons have been Janine Wissler and Martin Schirdewan. The party holds 39 seats out of 736 in the Bundestag,the federal legislature of Germany,having won 4.9% of votes cast in the 2021 German federal election. Its parliamentary group is the smallest of six in the Bundestag,and is headed by parliamentary co-leaders Amira Mohamed Ali and Dietmar Bartsch.
The Hanseatic University (HU) in Rostock-Warnemünde was a private university in Rostock,Germany. Founded in 2007,it was the second private institution of higher education in Germany to be granted university status by the government. In August 2008,when it had three students,it ceased activities,and it finally closed down March 2009.
Joachim Wilhelm Gauck is a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. A former Lutheran pastor,he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.
The German Parliamentary Committee investigation of the NSA spying scandal was started on March 20,2014,by the German Parliament in order to investigate the extent and background of foreign secret services spying in Germany in the light of the Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present). The Committee is also in search of strategies on how to protect telecommunication with technical means.
Rainer Ortleb is a German academic and politician.
Dagmar Enkelmann is a German politician of Die Linke party.
The Parliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr) is a committee of the German Bundestag responsible for oversight of the intelligence agencies of Germany. The PKGr monitors the Federal Intelligence Service,the Military Counterintelligence Service,and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Under the Control Body Act,the federal government is obliged to inform the PKGr comprehensively about the general activities of the federal intelligence services and about events of particular importance.
Kevin Kühnert is a German politician and the General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 elections,representing Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg.
Philipp Amthor is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 German federal election. From 2018 to 2020,he worked as a lobbyist for the now inactive IT-company Augustus Intelligence.
Christian Görke is a German politician for Die Linke and was deputy Minister-president of the federal state of Brandenburg from 2014 to 2019.
Stefan Liebich is a German politician,who served as a member of the Bundestag for the Democratic Socialist party The Left between 2009 and 2021.
Cansu Özdemir is a German politician of The Left from Hamburg. She is a member of the Hamburg Parliament.
Bernd Schmidbauer is a former German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).
Michael Hartmann is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2017. Hartmann is a specialist politician for internal security and was the domestic policy spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group as well as the chairman of his parliamentary group in the Committee on Internal Affairs and a member of the Parliamentary Oversight Panel.
This is a list of candidates for the 2021 German federal election.
Johannes Arlt is a German soldier and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2021 elections.
Eva-Maria Kröger is a German politician of The Left who is serving as Mayor of Rostock,the largest city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,since February 2023. She was previously a member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2016,and leader of The Left faction in the Rostock city council since 2010.
