Tobias Pflüger

Tobias Pflüger, 2014

Tobias Pflüger (born February 1, 1965 in Stuttgart ) is a German peace researcher and politician ( Die Linke ). He has been a deputy chairman of his party since 2014 and a member of the Bundestag since 2017 .

Life

Tobias Pflüger, 2019

Pflüger was born the son of a pastor and a catechist . He grew up in Möglingen, Calw-Stammheim and Nagold . In 1985 he passed his Abitur at the Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Nagold. He then studied political science and empirical cultural studies in Tübingen .

He has been active in the peace movement since the 1980s . From 1989 to 1993 he was a research assistant for a member of the Greens in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament for the areas of anti-nuclear movement , energy and peace policy.

In 1996 he initiated the establishment of the Information Agency on Militarization eV (IMI). There he is a board member and speaker at home and abroad. For several years he was on the editorial board of the journal Science and Peace . From 1997 to 2003 he was co-editor and frequent author of the monthly Graswurzelrevolution . From January 2000 to December 2002 Pflüger was a doctoral scholarship holder of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , but did not submit a dissertation. Since the end of 2002 he has been an active member of Attac's scientific advisory board .

Participation and presentations at the European Social Forum in Florence (2002), Paris (2003), London (2004), Athens (2006) and Malmö (2008) and the World Social Forum in Mumbai (2004), Porto Alegre (2005), Caracas (2006 ) and Nairobi (2007). In 2003 he took part in numerous events on the following topics: (German role in) Iraq war , Bundeswehr / defense policy guidelines , EU militarization , EU constitution, etc. Ä. part.

In the 2004 European elections , Pflüger ran for the party of democratic socialism , for which he then entered the European Parliament, where he was a. a. in the Foreign Affairs Committee and in the Security and Defense Subcommittee. In March 2006, Pflüger signed the founding appeal of the anti-capitalist left (AKL) observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and classified as left-wing extremist .

In May 2008 he joined Die Linke. For the European elections in 2009 , Pflüger was elected to tenth place on the list on March 1, 2009 at the European party congress of the left and thus missed the re-entry into parliament, as his party won only eight seats.

At the federal party conference of the Left in Rostock on May 15 and 16, 2010, Pflüger was elected to the extended party executive committee. On June 3, 2012, Pflüger was re-elected to the party executive committee. At the party congress of the Left from May 9 to 11, 2014 in Berlin, Pflüger was elected deputy chairman of the Left, at the party congress on May 28 and 29, 2016 in Magdeburg and in June 2018 he was re-elected to this office.

In November 2016, Pflüger was elected as a direct candidate for his party in the Freiburg constituency (No. 281) for 2017. On the Baden-Wuerttemberg state list of his party, he ran in fourth place. In the federal election, he received 7.3% of the first votes and Die Linke 11.2% of the second votes in the federal constituency of Freiburg. Pflüger has been a member of the 19th German Bundestag since October 24, 2017 .

In January 2019, Pflueger was a guest on a Sea Watch ship in the Mediterranean.

Tobias Pflüger has been a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019 .

Fonts

• With Martin Jung: War in Yugoslavia. 2nd edition 1994, ISBN 3-9803269-3-4 .
• The new Bundeswehr. 1997, ISBN 3-929008-63-7 .
• Preparations for Future Wars. The further militarization of the Bundeswehr, European Union and NATO in 2001. In: Opportunities and obstacles on the way to a peaceful Europe. Contributions to the ninth Dresden Peace Symposium on February 10, 2001. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers , Dresden 2001, issue 58, pp. 43–58.
• Civil-military cooperation. In: For a world without war. Are there ways to a secure peace? Contributions to the 14th Dresden Peace Symposium on February 11, 2006. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, Dresden 2006, issue 79, pp. 36–45.
• World power Europe. 2006, ISBN 3-89965-183-9 .

Web links

Commons : Tobias Pflüger  - Collection of Images

• DIE LINKE: Tobias Pflüger
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Literature by and about Tobias Pflüger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Tobias Pflüger in the Members' database of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ That's what I stand for: Tobias Pflüger Interview with Tobias Pflüger
2. ↑ Founding appeal “For an anti-capitalist left”. (PDF) March 2006, accessed May 24, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Tobias Pflüger: Joining the Die Linke Documentation party, Tobias Pflüger website from June 5, 2008
4. ^ DIE LINKE: Election of the federal list for the European elections 2009
5. ↑ News from May 16, 2010 , in the news ticker of the Schwäbisches Tagblatt
6. ↑ DIE LINKE: Election of the party executive
7. ↑ Tobias Pflüger runs as a Bundestag candidate for the Left , Badische Zeitung
8. ↑ THE LEFT. LV Baden-Württemberg: Left state list elected for federal election. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 22, 2017 ; Retrieved February 20, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Junge Freiheit.de: Left politicians are calling for more refugees to be accepted