Michael Leutert

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Michael Leutert (2012)

Michael Gerhard Leutert (born August 8, 1974 in Schlema ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2005 .

Life and work

After graduating from secondary school in Mittweida in 1993 , Leutert then studied sociology , political science and law at the TU Chemnitz and the TU Dresden from 1994 , which he graduated in 2002 as a sociologist . He has been a member of the Bundestag for Die Linke since 2005 . He is married and has a daughter and two sons.

politics

As a student, Leutert became a member of the PDS in 1991 . From 1999 to 2005 he was deputy chairman of the PDS regional association of Saxony. He is one of the proponents of an unconditional basic income .

Michael Leutert has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2005 . He entered the Bundestag via the state list of Saxony. From 2005 to 2009 he was chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group in the committee for human rights and humanitarian aid and from 2005 to 2009 he was a full member of the budget committee and a deputy member of the foreign affairs committee. In the 18th electoral term since 2013, Leutert is in the budget committee responsible for the budgets of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth and the Federal Audit Office. He is also chairman of the audit committee and chairman of the German-Mexican parliamentary group. His constituency is Chemnitz. From 2005 to 2013 Leutert was also the spokesman for the eight-member Saxon state group of the Left in the Bundestag.

After a demonstration against the Hartz laws, together with six parliamentary group colleagues in February 2006, within the banned mile around the German Bundestag, he was sentenced to a fine of 600 euros, which he refused to pay. He was convicted in the first instance on January 27, 2009 at the Tiergarten District Court . Leutert's objection to the penalty order was rejected by the higher court .

In 2007 Leutert joined the Red Aid Association, which was classified as a left-wing extremist organization by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

In March 2014, the Bundestag lifted its immunity for the second time so that the Dresden public prosecutor can continue investigating Leutert, who participated in a blockade against a neo-Nazi demonstration in Dresden in 2011. Leutert and his parliamentary colleague Caren Lay , who was also affected, rejected criminal prosecution as unlawful, referring to an opinion by the Scientific Service of the Bundestag , according to which the Saxon Assembly Act was not valid at the time of the offense due to a formal error and the federal law was not applicable to the demonstrators. The Immunity Committee did not follow this view.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ human rights . Web presence Michael Leutert, December 11, 2009
  2. ↑ Red Aid: United We Stand! Our solidarity against their repression! Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Leutert and Lay lose immunity - Neues Deutschland , March 21, 2014
  4. ↑ Left parliamentarians no longer immune in: taz , February 9, 2012; Retrieved December 12, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Leutert, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leutert, Michael Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Schlema