Heidi Reichinnek
Heidi Reichinnek | |
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Member of the Bundestag for Lower Saxony | |
Assumed office 27 September 2021 | |
Leader of The Left in Lower Saxony | |
Assumed office 2 March 2019 | |
Preceded by | Pia Zimmermann |
Personal details | |
Born | Heidi Reichinnek 19 April 1988 Merseburg, East Germany (present-day Germany) |
Political party | The Left |
Heidi Reichinnek (born 19 April 1988) is a German politician and Member of the Bundestag from Die Linke.
She became interested in politics as a teenager, opposing the Hartz IV reforms and supporting women's equality and social welfare. In university, she spent a semester abroad in Cairo in the midst of the Arab Spring and witnessed the Egyptian revolution, which furthered her interest in politics. Reichinnek joined The Left in 2015 and was elected to the city council of Osnabrück the next year.[1] She ran in the 2017 Lower Saxony state election, placed seventh on the party list, but was not elected. In 2019 she became chairwoman of The Left's Lower Saxony branch.[2]
She contested the constituency of Osnabrück City at the 2021 federal election She came in fifth place but was elected to the Bundestag on the state list.[3] Within the party, she is considered a supporter of Sahra Wagenknecht, and in 2019 signed an open letter thanking Wagenknecht for her political work.[4] At the federal Left congress in June 2022, Reichinnek ran unsuccessfully for the party co-leadership, winning 199 votes (35.8%) to incumbent Janine Wissler's 319 (57.5%).[5]
References
- ^ "Heidi Reichinnek is campaigning for basic child security". Bundestag (in German). 12 April 2022.
- ^ "Heide Reichinnek". Abgeordnetenwatch (in German). Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ "Ergebnisse Stadt Osnabrück - Der Bundeswahlleiter". www.bundeswahlleiter.de. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- ^ "Heidi Reichinnek announces candidacy for leadership of The Left". Die Zeit (in German). 25 May 2022.
- ^ "Janine Wissler and Martin Schirdewan form the new Left leadership". Der Spiegel (in German). 26 June 2022.
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