Katja Kipping
Katja Kipping ( born January 18, 1978 in Dresden ) is a German politician. She is national chairman of the Left Party and Member of the German Bundestag.
Life and career
After graduation in 1996 at the Annen -Gymnasium in Dresden made Katja Kipping 1996-1997 a voluntary social year in Gatchina near Saint Petersburg (Russia). She studied from 1997 to 2003 Slavonic Studies with minors in American Studies and Public Law at the Dresden University of Technology and graduated with a Master of Arts (M. A. ) from.
Katja Kipping lives in Berlin and Dresden, is married and has one daughter.
Party
Kipping was involved with the start of their studies in 1997 in the so -called protest office at TU Dresden and in 1998 a member of the PDS. As of July 2003, she was deputy national chairman of the PDS with the focal points agenda and social contact to social movements. She was in the party formation process as one of the proponents of a united pan- German Left. On 16 June 2007 she was elected the Left deputy national chairman of the party. Five years later, the delegates elected at the 3rd national convention June 2, 2012 Katja Kipping with an approval of 67 % of the national chairman. Since then, she co-authored with Bernd Riexinger the Left Party.
Member of Parliament
Katja Kipping belonged from 1999 to 2003 the city council of Dresden.
From 1999 to 2005 she was a member of the Saxon Parliament. Here she was spokeswoman for the PDS group for transport and energy policy and from 2003 a member of the Group Executive Board.
Since 2005, Kipping is a member of the German Bundestag. It is drafted as a top candidate on the state list of Saxony in the Bundestag. In the Bundestag 's declared Hartz IV Respondent is the social policy spokeswoman for the Left Party. It also champions for years for an unconditional basic income a. My constituency is Dresden I.
Of 25 November 2009 to 26 September 2012, she was chair of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs of the German Bundestag.
In January 2012 it was announced that Katja Kipping of 27 members of parliament of the Left stood as one under observation by the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution, which was criticized by politicians from all political groups. See also: Observation of the Left Party by the Constitutional protection.
Social offices
From December 2004 to April 2008 was Katja Kipping spokeswoman for the network basic income, the Office then put in favor of working on the magazine down the Prague Spring. And forms part of Caren Lay and Julia Bonk to the initiators of the emancipatory left.
Kipping occurred in December 2007, along with other Members of the links fractions of the Bundestag and of the Saxon parliament of the Red Hilfe eV in a demonstrative act of solidarity with.
Other activities
Katja Kipping is an editor of the magazine Prague Spring. The magazine for freedom and socialism (his subtitle ) published since May 2008 at the VSA -Verlag since 2014 and online just yet.
Kipping is a founding member of the Institute Solidary Modern eV ( ISM), whose board it belongs, to 24 June 2012 as the spokeswoman.
Publications
- With Christine Buchholz ( ed.): G8 - height of injustice. VSA, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89965-200-2.
- Sale of politics - For a democratic awakening. Econ, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-430-20079-0.