Sahra Wagenknecht
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Sahra Wagenknecht (born 16 July 1969) is a German left-wing politician, economist, author and publicist.
Along with Dietmar Bartsch, she is the parliamentary chairperson of Die Linke.
Since 2009, she has been a member of the Bundestag.
Early life
Wagenknecht was born on 16 July 1969 in the East German city of Jena. Her father is Iranian and her mother, who worked for a state-run art distributor, is German. Her father disappeared in Iran when she was a child. She was cared for primarily by her grandparents until 1976, when she and her mother moved to East Berlin. While in Berlin, she became a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ). She completed her Abitur exams in 1988 and joined the (then ruling) Socialist Unity Party (SED) in early 1989.
From 1990, Wagenknecht studied philosophy and New German Literature as an undergraduate in Jena and Berlin, completing mandatory coursework, but did not write a thesis as she "could not find support for her research aims at the East Berlin Humboldt University". She then enrolled as a philosophy student at the University of Groningen, completing her studies and earning an MA in 1996 for a thesis on the young Karl Marx's interpretation of Hegel, supervised by Hans Heinz Holz and published as a book in 1997. From 2005 until 2012 she completed a PhD dissertation at the chair of Microeconomics at TU Chemnitz, on "The Limits of Choice: Saving Decisions and Basic Needs in Developed Countries", awarded with the grade magna cum laude in the German system and subsequently published by the Campus Verlag.
Personal life
Wagenknecht married businessman Ralph-Thomas Niemeyer in May 1997. However, on 12 November 2011, politician Oskar Lafontaine stated publicly that he and Wagenknecht had become "close friends" (German: eng befreundet). At the time, Wagenknecht and Lafontaine had already separated from their respective spouses. Wagenknecht married Lafontaine, 26 years her senior, on 22 December 2014. She is an atheist.
Political career
Wagenknecht was elected to the new party's National Committee in 1991 after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the SED's conversion into the Party of Social Democracy (PDS). She also joined the PDS' Communist Platform, a Marxist-Leninist group.
Wagenknecht ran as the PDS nominee in a district of Dortmund in 1998, receiving 3.2 percent of the vote. She was elected as a PDS representative to the European Parliament following the 2004 European elections. Delegation, as well as the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, are among her duties in the parliament.
Wagenknecht considered running for the position of party vice chair following the merger between the PDS and the WASG that made up the Left Party (Die Linke). However, party leaders such as Lothar Bisky and Gregor Gysi opposed the proposal primarily due to her apparent affections for the former German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany). Following the scandal, she declared that she would not run for office. Wagenknecht gained a seat in the 2009 federal election in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the Bundestag, she became the Left Party's spokesperson for economic policy. She was the last elected vice president of the Left Party on May 15, 2010, receiving 73% of the vote.
Wagenknecht was one of 27 Left Party Bundestag members whose books and speeches were being collected and analyzed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution early in 2012.
Her mother is one of the main driving factors in the creation of Aufstehen, a left-wing political party group that exists outside of traditional political party structures and has been compared to French party La France Insoumise. Wagenknecht resigned from her leadership role within Aufstehen in March 2019, citing personal commitments as the reason for the movement's smooth start-up phase, for which political experience was required. She argued that the movement's participation by political parties at its root had "walled in" ("sich eingemauert") it. She will nevertheless make public appearances on behalf of the organization.
In 2015, Wagenknecht was elected co-leader of the Left's Bundestag party alongside Dietmar Bartsch, the incoming long-serving long-serving Gregor Gysi. Wagenknecht received 78.4% of the vote. She became a leading figure of the opposition for the remainder of the parliamentary term as the Left's time as the country's largest opposition party was at its peak. Bartsch and Wagenknecht were the Left's leading candidates for the 2017 federal election.
In November 2019, she resigned as a parliament speaker, citing burnout.
In the 2021 federal election, Wagenknecht was again nominated as the leading candidate on the party's North Rhine-Westphalia list. She was re-elected, but her party referred to the results as a "bitter loss."