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The Left Group (Bundestag)
The Left was a group in the German Bundestag composed of former members of the Die Linke faction. The group was founded or recognized on 2 February 2024, after the official Left parliamentary group was dissolved in December 2023 due to internal conflicts and subsequent split, with the members that joined the BSW forming its own group. On 25 February 2025, Die Linke announced that in the 21st Bundestag the faction would be recreated. Members Between February 2024 and February 2025, the group had 28 members, including Dietmar Bartsch and Gregor Gysi. Alignment The group Die Linke represents a left-wing, socialist and anti-militarist policy. It is committed to social justice, peace and environmental policy (see: Die Linke Die Linke (; ), also known 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 ...). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Reichinnek
Heidi Reichinnek (; born 19 April 1988) is a German politician and Member of the German Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag for the left-wing party Die Linke. Since 2024, she has been serving as the Leader of Die Linke in the Bundestag, alongside Sören Pellmann. Biography Reichinnek became interested in politics as a teenager, opposing the Hartz IV, Hartz reforms and supporting women's equality and social welfare. At university, she spent a semester abroad in Cairo in the midst of the Arab Spring and witnessed the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Egyptian revolution, which furthered her interest in politics. Reichinnek joined Die Linke (The Left) in 2015 and was elected to the city council of Osnabrück the following year. She ran in the 2017 Lower Saxony state election, and placed seventh on the party list, but was not elected. In 2019, she became chairwoman of The Left's Lower Saxony branch. She contested the List of Bundestag constituencies, constituency of Osnabrück City in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sören Pellmann
Sören Pellmann (born 11 February 1977 in Leipzig, East Germany, East-Germany) is a German politician who represents The Left (Germany), The Left. Pellmann has served as a member of the Bundestag from Leipzig II in the state of Saxony since 2017. Since 2024, he has been serving as the Leader of The Left Group in the Bundestag, alongside Heidi Reichinnek. Life Pellmann was born in Leipzig, Saxony. His father was the historian and Socialist Unity Party of Germany, SED-, later Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany), PDS-politician Dietmar Pellmann. He graduated at the Polytechnic Secondary School " „Adolf Hennecke“ and then the Lichtenberg-Gymnasium in Grünau (Leipzig), Leipzig-Grünau, where he passed his Abitur in 1995. This was followed by community service with the city of Leipzig in a home for severely and multiply handicapped children and young people. During his law studies at the Leipzig University, University of Leipzig, he worked for Barbara Höll and Heidemarie L� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Left Faction (Bundestag)
The Left Party parliamentary group in the Bundestag (short Linksfraktion, own spelling ''Fraktion DIE LINKE. im Bundestag'') is the parliamentary group of the party Die Linke in the Bundestag. It existed from 2005 to 2023, but was dissolved in 2023 following the Bundnis Sahra Wagenknecht split. After the 2025 election, the faction was formed again. History The Left parliamentary group was constituted on 23 September 2005. Before the merger of Labour and Social Justice (WASG) and the Party of Democratic Socialism(PDS) to form ''Die Linke'' on 16 June 2007, the Left parliamentary group was the joint parliamentary group of independent members of the German Bundestag and members of the two source parties in the German Bundestag. The parliamentary group chairmanship was initially shared by Gregor Gysi and Oskar Lafontaine. After the 2009 German federal election, Gysi was elected the sole chairman due to Lafontaine's withdrawal due to illness. After Gysi decided not to run for par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Linke
Die Linke (; ), also known 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 former East Germany, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). Since October 2024, The Left's co- chairpersons have been Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken. The party holds 64 seats out of 630 in the German federal parliament (the Bundestag), having won 8.8% of votes cast in the 2025 German federal election. Its parliamentary group is the second-smallest of seven in the Bundestag, and is headed by parliamentary co-leaders Heidi Reichinnek and Sören Pellmann. The Left is represented in seven of Germany's sixteen state legislatures, including four of the five eastern states. As of 2025, the party participates in gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliamentary Group (Germany)
A parliamentary group ( ''German'': Gruppe) in Germany is an association of several members of a parliament, especially in the Bundestag, whose number does not reach the minimum size of a fraktion. The rights of a group are usually limited compared to a parliamentary group, but the group has more rights than an . Until March 2025, there were two groups in the German Bundestag, the Die Linke group with 28 members and the BSW group with ten members. Until 2024 there were two groups in the German state parliaments, the FDP group in Thuringia and the BVB/FW group in Brandenburg. In Italy they are known as ''Gruppo.'' Description The minimum number of MPs required to form a group and the rights of the group are regulated differently in each legislature. The legal provisions can be found in the respective rules of procedure of the respective parliament or in a separate parliamentary group law. Legislators who do not reach the size of a parliamentary group can join to form a group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Bundestag
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the lower house of the German federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag was established by Title III of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany () in 1949 as one of the legislative bodies of Germany, the other being the Bundesrat. It is thus the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag. The members of the Bundestag are representatives of the German people as a whole, are not bound by any orders or instructions and are only accountable to their conscience. As of the current 21st legislative period, the Bundestag has a fixed number of 630 members. The Bundestag is elected every four years by German citizens aged 18 and older. Elections use a mixed-member proportional representation system which combines First-past-the-post voting for constituency-seats with proportional representation to ensure its composition mirrors the national popular vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice ( , BSW) is a List of political parties in Germany, political party in Germany founded on 8 January 2024. It has been described as a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left party with Left-wing populism, populist and Left-wing nationalism, nationalist tendencies. The BSW is sceptical of green politics, criticises support for Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War, and holds Euroscepticism, Eurosceptic and anti-American views on foreign policy. The party is considered "left-conservative" or "left-authoritarian", as it combines economically Socialism, socialist values with cultural conservatism and social conservatism on social issues. The party originated as a split from the party The Left (Germany), The Left (''Die Linke''). In September 2023, Sahra Wagenknecht, Amira Mohamed Ali, Christian Leye, Lukas Schön, and several other long time Left party members announced their intention to form a new party. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BSW Group (Bundestag)
The BSW group is a group in the 20th German Bundestag. BSW stands for Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, Sahra Wagenknecht being the party founder and leader. All ten members of the group were previously in the Die Linke fraction, which was dissolved in December 2023. The BSW group was recognized as a group on 2 February 2024. Following the 2025 German federal election, the BSW would fail to reach 5% and thus lose all seats. The BSW group in the 20th German Bundestag The group currently has ten members, including the former parliamentary group leader of the Left Party in the Bundestag Amira Mohamed Ali, the former party leader of the Left Party Klaus Ernst and the former deputy party leader and penultimate parliamentary group leader of the Left Party Sahra Wagenknecht: With regard to parliamentary work, the BSW group was responsible for no legislative initiatives, no major interpellations, 32 minor interpellations, ten independent motions and three motions for resolutions in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st Bundestag
The 21st Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany, was elected in the 2025 German federal election, 23 February 2025 federal election, and was constituted on 25 March 2025. The President of the Bundestag is Julia Klöckner (CDU (Germany), CDU). The 21st Bundestag has 630 members, 103 seats smaller than the 20th Bundestag had been at 733 members. It has 208 members of the CDU/CSU, originally 152 members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), 120 members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), 85 members of Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne), 64 members of The Left (Germany), The Left (Linke), and one member of the South Schleswig Voters' Association. On 2 May 2025 the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, (BfV) Germany's federal Security agency, domestic intelligence agency, classified the AfD as a "confirmed right-wing extremist" organisation. This classification was temporarily suspended by the BfV just a week after its announcement. One parliamentari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dietmar Bartsch
Dietmar Gerhard Bartsch (born 31 March 1958) is a German politician who has served as co-chair of The Left (Germany), 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 Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany), PDS, of which he served as treasurer from 1991 to 1997 and federal managing officer from 1997 to 2002. He has been a member of the Bundestag since 2005, and previously served from 1998 to 2002. In his capacity as Bundestag co-leader, he served with Sahra Wagenknecht from 2015 to 2019, and with Amira Mohamed Ali since 2019. Bartsch has served as federal co-lead candidate for his party on three occasions: 2002 German federal election, 2002, 2017 German federal election, 2017, and 2021 German federal election, 2021. Early life and education Bartsch was born and raised in Stralsund, East Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregor Gysi
Gregor Florian Gysi (; born 16 January 1948) is a German attorney, former president of the Party of the European Left and a prominent politician of The Left () political party. He belonged to the reformist wing of the governing Socialist Unity Party of Germany at the time of the pro-democracy transition inspired by then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He has strongly denied allegations that he used to assist the Stasi, the East German secret police. He was the last leader of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and led the effort that transformed it into the post-Communist Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), forerunner of The Left. Family background Gysi was born in Berlin-Lichtenberg in East Berlin, Soviet Zone of Germany. His father was Klaus Gysi, a high-ranking official in East Germany who served as the Minister of Culture from 1966 to 1973. His mother, Irene Olga Lydia Gysi (''née'' Lessing; 1912–2007), was the sister of political activist Gottfried Lessing, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groups Of The Bundestag
A group is a number of persons or things that are located, gathered, or classed together. Groups of people * Cultural group, a group whose members share the same cultural identity * Ethnic group, a group whose members share the same ethnic identity * Religious group (other), a group whose members share the same religious identity * Social group, a group whose members share the same social identity * Tribal group, a group whose members share the same tribal identity * Organization, an entity that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment * Peer group, an entity of three or more people with similar age, ability, experience, and interest * Class (education), a group of people which attends a specific course or lesson at an educational institution Social science * In-group and out-group * Primary, secondary, and reference groups * Social group * Collectives Philosophy and religion * Khandha, a Buddhist concept of five material and mental factors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
