Stefan Liebich

Stefan Liebich (2017)

Video presentation (2014)

Stefan Liebich (born December 30, 1972 in Wismar ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2009 and was previously a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since 1995 .

Life and work

Liebich spent his childhood in Greifswald . In 1983 his family moved with him to Berlin . According to his own statements, when he was 13 he was asked whether he would later work full-time for the Stasi . In 1991 he obtained his Abitur at the "Albert Einstein" Extended High School in Berlin-Marzahn . From 1992 to 1995 he studied business administration with a focus on business informatics at the Technical University of Berlin and graduated with a diploma.

Stefan Liebich is non-denominational and was married to Kerstin Liebich .

Stefan Liebich is u. a. Board member at Help - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe eV , and the German Africa Foundation , as well as member of the German-Israeli Society , the German Society for Foreign Policy and the European Academy Berlin .

Political party

In the GDR , Stefan Liebich was a member of the Young Pioneers and FDJ organizations . He later co-founded the Marxist youth association “Young Left” . On his 18th birthday (1990) he joined the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).

In 1996 and 1998 the PDS Marzahn elected Stefan Liebich as district chairman. In December 1999 he became deputy state chairman of the PDS Berlin. In 2001 he took over the state chairmanship of the Berlin PDS from Petra Pau , and in 2003 the state party congress confirmed him in this position.

In October 2005, Liebich announced that he would not run again for the state chairmanship of the Linkspartei.PDS in Berlin. He proposed Klaus Lederer as the new state chairman. He himself wanted to concentrate on chairing the parliamentary group in the House of Representatives.

In December 2005 Liebich applied for (additional) membership in the WASG , whose Berlin regional association he had repeatedly referred to as the “cucumber troop” at the end of November, after it had run against the PDS in the House of Representatives elections. Liebich was refused membership.

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Berlin House of Representatives

In 1995, 1999 and 2001 Stefan Liebich ran in the Marzahn district and was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives. For the 2006 parliamentary elections, he could not win his constituency in Prenzlauer Berg and was elected from the state list.

At the turn of the year 2001/2002 he led the coalition negotiations with the Berlin SPD together with Gregor Gysi and Harald Wolf for the Berlin PDS . As a result, the federal capital was ruled by a red-red Senate ( Senate Wowereit II , III ) from 2002 to 2011 .

In the summer of 2002 the previous leader of the PDS parliamentary group in the House of Representatives, Harald Wolf, moved to the Senate. Stefan Liebich took over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group and was elected as chairman of the parliamentary group in 2004.

In autumn 2006, after the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives, Liebich announced that he would run for deputy parliamentary group leader and support the new parliamentary group leader, Carola Bluhm .

At the beginning of 2007, Liebich, as an initiator, re-formed the internal party movement Forum Democratic Socialism , in which parts of the reform-oriented wing of the party Die Linke are organized. Until June 2010 and again from November 2013 to June 2014 he was the national spokesman for the strong and influential movement, especially in the new federal states.

Bundestag

Liebich ran for the PDS in the autumn of 2002 in the Berlin-Mitte constituency and in September 2005 for the Left Party in the Berlin-Pankow constituency for the German Bundestag and was subject to the SPD candidates. In the 2009 federal election, Liebich was able to win the direct mandate against Wolfgang Thierse for the first time in constituency 76 (Pankow district without Prenzlauer Berg Ost) . Liebich was able to defend this direct mandate in the elections to the 18th and 19th German Bundestag 2017.

He is chairman of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag, in the 19th electoral term he is the parliamentary’s foreign policy spokesman.

On February 20, 2020, Liebich announced his withdrawal from the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Bundestag and the post of foreign policy spokesman for the left-wing parliamentary group . Gregor Gysi was elected as his successor on May 5, 2020 .