The Left Hamburg

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The Left Hamburg
Die Linke logo.svg
Chairperson Olga Fritzsche
David Stoop
Treasurer Christian Kruse
executive Director Martin Wittmaack
Establishment date July 7, 2007
Place of foundation Hamburg
Headquarters Wendenstrasse 6
20097 Hamburg
Landtag mandates
13/123
Number of members 1,386 (as of December 31, 2016)
Website www.die-linke-hamburg.de

Die Linke Hamburg (spelling: DIE LINKE.Hamburg) is the regional association of the German party Die Linke in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

history

Linke Hamburg emerged from the merger of the former regional associations Linkspartei.PDS regional association Hamburg and WASG Hamburg. The founding party conference took place on July 7, 2007. In 2008 Die Linke ran for the first time in the election of the Hamburg citizenship , with Dora Heyenn as the top candidate, as in the subsequent elections . The Left Hamburg won eight citizenship mandates (6.4%), three through direct mandates, and thus became the fourth largest party in the citizenship. It also moved into all district assemblies (3 to 6 seats). In the state elections in Hamburg in 2011 , the Left achieved the same result, but it was only the fifth strongest party after the FDP. While Die Linke had offered to tolerate an SPD senate under certain conditions in 2011, they positioned themselves in the next election campaign in a pure opposition role. In the 2015 mayor election , they were able to improve with 8.5 percent of the votes to 11 seats in the mayor, four of them through direct mandates in the constituencies of Altona , Barmbek-Uhlenhorst-Dulsberg , Billstedt-Wilhelmsburg-Finkenwerder and Hamburg-Mitte . The Left in Hamburg thus achieved the second best result of their party in a state parliament in the old federal states (more votes were only achieved in the elections of the Saarland state parliament in 2009 and 2012 ). Dora Heyenn resigned from the parliamentary group after she had not been re-elected chairman of the parliamentary group, so that it only consists of ten members.

On February 18, the Hamburg regional association elected MEP Fabio De Masi with 51% of the votes for number 1 in the state list and thus the top candidate for the 2017 federal election . Jan van Aken had already announced in summer 2016 that he would not run again.

District associations / district associations

According to the state statutes and the Hamburg administrative division , the state association is divided into 7 district associations. The party's decision-making process and articulation take place at the level of the district associations. Here the members exchange information regularly at the general meetings. The district association representatives also elected at this level bring the positions of the district associations to the regional party congresses, which meet at quarterly intervals. In order to strengthen the political independence of the 7 administrative districts of Hamburg, the elections for the district assemblies will be held separately from the elections for the Hamburg citizenship from 2014 with the change in the electoral law in 2009 . According to the Hamburg District Administration Act, the district associations form district electoral lists that are independent of the state party for the elections to the 7 Hamburg district assemblies .

The LINKE.Hamburg is made up of 7 district associations:

  • Die LINKE.Altona
    • District group Altona-Altstadt
    • District group Altona-Nord
    • District group Bahrenfeld-Ost
    • District group Flottbek (Bahrenfeld-West)
    • District group Elbe suburbs
    • District group Lurup / Osdorf 
    • District group Ottensen
  • DIE LINKE, Eimsbüttel
    • Local group Eimsbüttel-Nord
    • Local group Harvestehude-Rotherbaum
  • Die LINKE.Hamburg-Nord
    • District group Barmbek
    • District group Dulsberg
    • District group Langenhorn
    • Winterhude district group
    • District group Eppendorf / Hoheluft-Ost
  • The LINKE.Wandsbek
    • Local association Alstertal and Walddörfer
    • Local association Bramfeld, Steilshoop, Farmsen and Berne
    • Local association Rahlstedt
    • Local association Wandsbek-Kern (Eilbek, Jenfeld, Marienthal, Tonndorf, Wandsbek) 
  • The LINKE.Hamburg-Mitte
    • District group Billstedt
    • District group Finkenwerder
    • District group Hamm / Horn / Borgfelde
    • District group St. Georg
    • District group St. Pauli
    • District group Wilhelmsburg / Veddel
  • DIE LINKE.Harburg
    • Local group Harburg Süderelbe
  • Die LINKE.Bergedorf

Country spokesman

At the founding party congress in 2007, four state spokesmen were initially elected. Since 2012 Die Linke Hamburg has only had a dual leadership.

  • Christiane Schneider (2007–2008) (elected with 59.8%) (2008 change to the citizenry: separation of office and mandate, therefore resignation as state spokeswoman.)
  • Zaman Masudi (2007–2012) (elected with 59.8%)
  • Herbert Schulz (2007–2012) (elected with 61.5%)
  • Berno Schuckart (2007–2012) (elected with 57.4%)
  • Karin Haas (2008–2012) (elected with 80.0%) (10 April 2010 re-elected with 70.7%)
  • Olga Fritzsche (2012-2014) (elected with 71.8%)
  • Bela Rogalla (2012-2014) (elected with 60.4%)
  • Sabine Wils (2014-2016)
  • Rainer Benecke (November 2014 – November 2017) (elected with 39.3%, re-elected in 2016 with 80.2%)
  • Żaklin Nastić (June 2016 – May 2018) (elected with 88.4%)
  • David Christopher Stoop (since November 2017) (elected with 75.7%)
  • Olga Fritzsche (since 2018)

Member of the Citizenship

The following representatives for Die Linke sit in the 22nd Hamburg Citizenship (since March 2020):

The following representatives sat for Die Linke in the 21st Hamburg Citizenship (2015-2020):

  • Sabine Boeddinghaus , parliamentary group leader; Spokeswoman for education and school, family and youth
  • Cansu Özdemir , group leader; Spokeswoman for women, social affairs, inclusion
  • Heike Sudmann , deputy chairman of the parliamentary group; Parliamentary Director; Spokeswoman for traffic, urban development and housing
  • Deniz Celik , vice-chairman of the group; Spokesperson for Health and Unions
  • Martin Dolzer , spokesman for Europe, peace, science, justice, queer
  • Stephan Jersch , spokesman for economy, environment and technology, media and network policy, agriculture, districts
  • Norbert Hackbusch , spokesman for budget, culture, port and public companies
  • Inge Hannemann , spokesperson for labor market
  • Dora Heyenn , non-attached (resigned from the party on November 27, 2015, member of the SPD parliamentary group since July 2017)
  • Christiane Schneider , spokeswoman for anti-fascism, refugees, domestic politics, religion, constitutional politics
  • Mehmet Yıldız , spokesperson for children and sports

people

  • Dora Heyenn , the top candidate in the 2008, 2011 and 2015 parliamentary elections and former parliamentary group leader, left the party at the end of 2015 and rejoined the SPD in July 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State party congress elects new state spokesman. (No longer available online.) In: die-linke-hamburg.de. November 12, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on November 17, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.die-linke-hamburg.de  
  2. ^ Oskar Niedermayer : Party members according to federal states. Federal Agency for Civic Education , July 8, 2017, accessed on August 25, 2017 .
  3. ^ State statutes of the party DIE Linke. Regional Association Hamburg
  4. ^ Result of district assembly elections 2008
  5. ^ Result of the 2015 state election
  6. ^ Left in Hamburg: disempowered parliamentary group leader leaves parliamentary group
  7. ^ De Masi top candidate of the Hamburg left. In: ndr.de. February 19, 2017. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Van Aken is no longer running for the Bundestag. In: ndr.de. June 11, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Results of the founding party conference ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-linke-hamburg.de
  10. ↑ https://www.linksfraktion-nord.de/fraktion/abendunge-zubennte/karin-haas/
  11. ↑ Van Aken is no longer running for the Bundestag. (HTTPS) In: ndr.de. June 11, 2016. Retrieved June 11, 2016 .