Jessica Tatti | |
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Jessica Tatti in 2019 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 24 October 2017 – 23 February 2025 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1981-04-22)22 April 1981 (age 44) |
| Citizenship | Germany |
| Political party | Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (since 2023) |
| Other political affiliations | The Left (until 2023) |
Jessica Tatti (born 22 April 1981) is a German politician (BSW, former The Left). Born inMarbach am Neckar,Baden-Württemberg, she was member of GermanBundestag from the state ofBaden-Württemberg from 2017 to 2025. She switched party fromThe Left in October 2023 to "Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht".[1]
She is of Italian descent. Her grandparents hail fromSardinia.[2] Tatti studied social work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences inLudwigsburg and was employed in the corresponding professional field after her bachelor's degree: In 2010, she moved to Reutlingen and initially worked in urban youth work; before her parliamentary mandate in the German Bundestag, she most recently worked in social services in refugee care for the Esslingen district association ofArbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO). She became member of the Bundestag after the2017 German federal election.[3] She is a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs.[4]
In October 2023 she declared that she would quit Die Linke and followSahra Wagenknecht into her new party. Tatti rejected the demand to resign from the Bundestag mandate she had won through Die Linke.[5][6]
Tatti organized the new party in Baden-Württemberg and was one of the founders of the state organisation.
She ran as top candidate for BSW Baden-Württemberg at2025 German Federal election.[7] The BSW received less than 5 percent and did not enter the Bundestag. In July 2025 her personal homepage was offline.[8]