Sigrid Hupach (born 1968 inLeinefelde,Thuringia,East Germany) is a German politician who served as a member of the GermanBundestag for theLeft Party from 2013 to 2017. Since 2024, she has been a member of theThuringian State Parliament for theAlliance Sahra Wagenknecht, being one of the two deputy leaders of that Party's state association.
Sigrid Hupach was born on 9 September 1968 inLeinefelde, where she attended theGeschwister Scholl Polytechnic Secondary School from 1975 to 1985. From 1985 to 1987, she received training as aFacharbeiter für Schreibtechnik [de] - an officially recognized office management job ofEast Germany. From 1993 to 1994, she went to a technical college for economics and studied architecture at the University of Applied Sciences inErfurt from 1995 to 2000. She then studied philosophy inGöttingen until 2001 studied. From 2001 to 2002, she completed further training in mediadesign inBraunschweig. After years of working as a low-level employee during the time she studied, she did freelance work as an architect and media designer from 2006 to 2010.[1]
In 2007, Hupach joined the Left Party. From 2012 to 2013 she was a constituency worker inMühlhausen for then-member of the Thuringian state parliamentJörg Kubitzki [de] (the Left). In 2009, she became the leader of her party'sEichsfeld district association, after being elected into the local district council in July. From November 2011 to November 2013 she was a member of the executive board of the Left Party's state association.[1]
In the2013 German federal election, she was her Party's candidate in theEichsfeld – Nordhausen – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis I electoral district, where she received 26.091 (19.8%) votes, coming second afterManfred Grund of theChristian Democratic Union. Nevertheless, she received a mandate in the Bundestag through the so-calledstate list. During her time as a member of the Bundestag, she was the chairwoman of the Committee on Culture and the Media. In the2017 election, she did not run, the new candidate for the electoral district beingKersten Steinke, who came third with 23.848 (15.3%) of the votes. In the most recentfederal election of 2021, Hupach sought re-election in her electoral district but placed only fourth with 16.586 (10.9%) votes.
Between 2021 and 2024, she left the Left Party for theSahra Wagenknecht Alliance. On 15 March 2024, her Party elected her one of the deputy leaders of the Thuringian state association along with Matthias Herzog, behindKatja Wolf andSteffen Schütz.[2] In theThuringian state election of 2024, she got a seat in the parliament.[3] After the election, her party along with theSocial Democratic Party and the Christian Democratic Union created theVoigt cabinet in acoalition government colloquially known asBlackberry Coalition [de], in which Hupach herself does not occupy a ministerial post.[4][5]
She is divorced and has three sons.[6]
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