Torsten Wolf

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Torsten Wolf (born April 27, 1968 in Wurzen ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ) and member of the state parliament in Thuringia .

Life

Torsten Wolf completed an apprenticeship as a maintenance mechanic and worked as such for the water management in Ilmenau . Since his school days he has been involved in the oppositional GDR environmental movement within the framework of the Protestant Church. After he had submitted an exit application in November 1987 , he was allowed to leave Germany on May 18, 1988. He worked in factories in Schwäbisch Gmünd and Kassel , after the end of the GDR he returned to Ilmenau in 1992. From 1992 to 1995 he attended a college and made up his Abitur. This was followed by a degree in political science, economics and modern history up to the year 2000 at the University of Jena . Since 2001 he has been working for the German Trade Union Confederation , initially as a qualification coordinator and from 2003 as a trade union secretary in the DGB region of East Thuringia. Wolf was state chairman of the education and science union in Thuringia from 2010 to 2014 .

Wolf was initially a member of the SPD , but later switched to the left. In the state elections in Thuringia in 2014 he won the direct mandate in constituency Jena I .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Martin Debes: My friend, the enemy. Zeit Online, October 6, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Torsten Wolf elected as the new GEW state chairman. In: Thuringian General . September 18, 2010, accessed February 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Kathrin Vitzthum elected as the new GEW state chairman. In: The world . September 20, 2014, accessed February 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ State election 2014 in Thuringia - final result. Office of the regional returning officer, accessed on February 18, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Spice up