Bernd Riexinger

Bernd Riexinger ( born October 30, 1955 in Leonberg ) is a German politician of the Left Party. Since June 2, 2012, he, together with Katja Kipping national chairman of his party.

Life

Riexinger originates claims to be a working budget. As a convinced pacifist, he refused military service. Riexinger was formed after the main and trade school to become a banker. He then worked until 1980 in this profession. From 1980 to 1990 he was released from duty with the Leonberg building society.

Since 1991 he has union secretary. Riexinger is a member of the initiative to network the Union Left and participates in the Social Forum movement in Germany. Riexinger was managing director of the district Stuttgart trade union Verdi and Member of the Executive National Council of the Left Party in Baden- Württemberg. Previously, he was a member of the Interim National Council of the Left Party in Baden -Württemberg and before that a member of the Executive National Executive of the party WASG in Baden -Württemberg.

Riexinger 2003 was one of the initiators of protests against Agenda 2010, the then Federal Government.

30 May 2012 Riexinger announced his candidacy for the federal presidency of the party Die Linke known and was on 2 June 2012, 53.5 % of the votes to national chairman, in addition to Katja Kipping, selected. He sat down beside it by Dietmar Bartsch against.

Political positions

Riexinger calls asylum for the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Publications and speeches (selection)

  • Riexinger, Bernd and Werner Sauer Born: Unions in the Global Trap: Forward to the roots, in: supplement to the journal Socialism, Hamburg, 2004
  • Ways out of the political crisis of the unions, in: utopia creative, January 2000.
  • Speaking at the nationwide demonstration against the Agenda 2010, November 1, 2003
  • Perspectives of protest against welfare cuts, in: Socialism, January 2004.
  • New strike culture. Practical examples from Stuttgart, in: Luxembourg. Analysis of society and left practice, December 2011.
  • Working time. New Perspectives from the struggles develop, in: Luxembourg. Analysis of society and left practice, December 2012.
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