Martin Schirdewan

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Martin Schirdewan at the Left Party's congress in Bonn (2019)

Martin Schirdewan (born July 12, 1975 in East Berlin ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). In November 2017, Schirdewan replaced the outgoing MEP Fabio De Masi and has been a member of the European Parliament since then . In the 2019 European elections , he ran as the top candidate of his party and defended his mandate. His group, the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left , elected him as co-group chairman for the 9th legislative term.

Life

Training and first political engagement

Schirdewan studied political science at the Free University of Berlin from 1998 to 2003 and was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

From 2001 to 2008 he was editor of the magazine Utopie Kreativ of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (RLS). In addition, from 2005 to 2006 he was a member of the speakers' council of the RLS scholarship . From 2006 to 2008 he was the chief editor of sacco & vanzetti , the youth magazine of the New Germany (ND). From 2008 he was coordinator of the AG East of the parliamentary group chairman conference of the Left. In 2011 he became a member of the editorial board of antifa magazine . Magazine for anti-fascist politics and culture of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN).

Successor to the European Parliament

Martin Schirdewan, top candidate of the party Die Linke for the European elections (2019)

In 2012 Schirdewan was elected to the party executive committee of the left. In 2014, his party nominated him for 8th place on the electoral list for the European elections. The left won 7.4 percent in the election and thus 7 of the 96 German mandates, so that Schirdewan just missed the entry into parliament. He then worked as a research assistant for Roland Claus, member of the Bundestag, until January 14, 2015 . He then moved to Brussels, where he took on full-time management of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung's European office in Brussels and the liaison office in Athens - initially in preparation, from July 15, 2015 to November 15, 2017.

After MEP Fabio de Masi was elected to the German Bundestag in 2017 and thus gave up his mandate in the European Parliament, Schirdewan moved up to the European Parliament on November 8, 2017. Like his party colleagues, he became a member of the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left . For the parliamentary group, he became a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, as well as a deputy member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the special committee on financial crime, tax evasion and tax avoidance.

Top candidate in the 2019 European elections

Martin Schirdewan speaks as group leader of the GUE / NGL group at the constitution of the European Parliament

For the 2019 European elections, Die Linke elected Martin Schirdewan together with Özlem Demirel as the party's top duo. He himself sees his priorities in the commitment to tax justice and fair financial policy, control of corporations and support for the work of European trade unions. The left lost its share of the vote in the 2019 European elections , winning 5 of the 96 German mandates with just 5.5 percent of the vote.

In the new legislature, his group, the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left , elected him together with Manon Aubry , French MEP from La France Insoumise , as co-chair of the group. He is also a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a deputy member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection .

Private

Schirdewan is the grandson of the KPD and SED politician Karl Schirdewan and has one child.

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Web links

Commons : Martin Schirdewan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aubry & Schirdewan to lead Left's challenge to EU policy. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Martin Schirdewan. In: Prague Spring . Retrieved May 26, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b A strong duo for Europe in Thuringia. The left. Kreisverband Altenburger Land, January 24, 2018, accessed on April 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Press breakfast: Farewell to Fabio De Masi (Die Linke.). In: Euractiv . Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 8th legislative term | Martin SCHIRDEWAN | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Katja Kipping and Bernd Riexinger: Top duo for the 2019 European elections. Die Linke, September 24, 2018, accessed on September 19, 2019 .
  7. ^ Assembly of representatives: election of the European list. In: die-linke.de. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 9th legislative term | Martin SCHIRDEWAN | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Reinhard Kärbsch: May 1 in Hoyerswerda. (pdf, 525 kB) In: Lausitzer Linksdruck. May 2014, p. 1 , archived from the original on June 1, 2016 ; accessed on June 1, 2016 (interview with Martin Schirdewan).
personal data
SURNAME Schirdewan, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke)
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin