Sabine Jünger (born 21 May 1973, in

Königs Wusterhausen Königs Wusterhausen () is a town in the Dahme-Spreewald district of the state of Brandenburg in Germany a few kilometers outside Berlin. Geography Geographical location Königs Wusterhausen – or "KW" () as it is often called locally – li ...

) is a German politician for

The Left Party.PDS The Party of Democratic Socialism (german: Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus, PDS) was a democratic socialist political party in Germany active between 1989 and 2007. It was the legal successor to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), w ...

. Jünger studied

theology Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing th ...

and changed to

legal science Legal science is one of the main components in civil law tradition (after Roman law, canon law, commercial law, and the legacy of the revolutionary period). Legal science is primarily the creation of German legal scholars of the middle and late n ...

Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...

in 1992. She started political work in 1991, while still in school. In 1992, Jünger became a member of ''The Left Party.PDS''. In 1994, she was elected to the parliament of

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in pop ...

. In the federal elections in 1998 she was elected to the

Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the German Federalism, federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representat ...

, where she was a member until 2002. Jünger is openly lesbian and has one child. She is an

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

Notes

1973 births Living people People from Königs Wusterhausen People from Bezirk Potsdam German atheists German lesbian politicians Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany) politicians Members of the Bundestag for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Members of the Bundestag 1998–2002 Members of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Members of the Bundestag for The Left LGBT members of the Bundestag Female members of the Bundestag 21st-century German women politicians 21st-century German LGBT people {{Germany-Left-politician-stub