Susanne Wiest

Susanne Wiest ( born January 16, 1967) is a German Basic Income activist from Greifswald (originally from Dillingen on the Danube ).

In Germany Wiest, who, after graduating from school, until November 2012 worked as a full time childminder acquired in 2009 better known by their petition to the German parliament, in which it proposed the introduction of an unconditional basic income. The petition was co-signed by 52 973 supporters. It broke for the first time since the introduction of the online petition in 2009, the server of the Bundestag together. Therefore, the voting period was extended by one week.

The petition was finally adopted because of the uncertainty of how many people were excluded by the technical difficulties of the way to support the public hearing of the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag. The hearing took place on Monday, November 8, 2010, from. Before and in the subsequent period Wiest was invited to numerous media appearances.

Susanne Wiest joined the 2009 federal election as a non-party candidate in the general election Single Greifswald county - East Pomerania and reached there at 1.2 per cent of the primary vote - Demmin. In 2011 she applied for claims to membership of all parties represented in parliament, and the Pirate Party. At the general election in 2013, she chose the preparation meeting of the National Association of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern the Pirate Party on the list position 1