Isabelle Vandre | |
|---|---|
 Isabelle Vandre in 2016 | |
| Member of the Bundestag fromBrandenburg | |
| Assumed office 2025 | |
| Member of theLandtag of Brandenburg | |
| In office 2014–2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1989-07-27)27 July 1989 (age 36) |
| Political party | Die Linke |
| Alma mater | Free University of Berlin |
Isabelle Vandre (born 27 July 1989) is a German politician fromDie Linke. She was a member of theLandtag of Brandenburg from 2014 to 2024 and was elected to the21st Bundestag in the2025 German federal election via the Brandenburgstate list.
Isabelle Vandre graduated from high school in 2009. She then studiedpolitical science at theFree University of Berlin, where she received her bachelor's degree in 2018.[1] During her studies, she was a member of the Free University'sstudent parliament [de] from 2011 to 2012 and a member of the Department of Political and Social Sciences from 2011 to 2013.[2]
Vandre has been a board member of theSV Babelsberg 03 sports club since 2019. She is also a member of theEducation and Science Workers' Union, the Berlin Brandenburg Education Partisans, the Education Institute for Politics and Culture, theRote Hilfe e.V., theAssociation of Democratic Scientists [de], the Women's Summer Academy and theAssociation of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists.[2]
She is a member of theLeft Youth Solid and has been a member of the Left Party since 2011. In the Brandenburg state association of Linksjugend solid, she was a member of the state spokesperson's council.[3] Vandre was a member of the district executive committee of theUckermark district association of the Left Party from 2014 to 2019 and deputy state chairwoman ofThe Left Party Brandenburg from 2018 to 2020.[4]
Vandre has been a member of thePotsdam Potsdam City Council [de] since 2019, where she is the parliamentary group leader of the Left Party, as well as a member of the Main Committee and the Committee on Health, Social Affairs, Housing and Inclusion.[5]
In the2014 Brandenburg state election, she won a mandate via her party's state list. She was a member of the Committee for Science, Research and Culture, as well as spokesperson for higher education, science and research policy for her parliamentary group.[3] Since 2015, she has also been a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee. She was a deputy member of the Brandenburg NSU investigative committee for her parliamentary group.[6] She campaigned against the tightening of Brandenburg's police law and voted against the reform, despite the majority of her parliamentary group in the state parliament.[7] In the2024 Brandenburg state election, The Left Party werewiped out losing all their seats. Vandre thus left the state parliament.
Vandre ran as adirect candidate in the2025 German federal election in thePotsdam – Potsdam-Mittelmark II – Teltow-Fläming II constituency.[8] She received 13.8 percent of thefirst votes.[8] She nevertheless entered the Bundestag via the Brandenburgstate list.[9] Since the reconstitution of theLeft Party parliamentary fraktion in the Bundestag on February 25, 2025, she has been a member of it.[10]
