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Stefan Liebich | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of theBundestag forBerlin-Pankow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 27 October 2009 – 26 October 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Wolfgang Thierse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Stefan Gelbhaar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Stefan Liebich (1972-12-30)30 December 1972 (age 52) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | The Left | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | Party of Democratic Socialism (1990–2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stefan Liebich (born 30 December 1972) is a German politician, who served as a member of theBundestag for theDemocratic Socialist partyThe Left (DIE LINKE) between 2009 and 2021.
Liebich was born on 30 December 1972 in theEast German city ofWismar and spent his childhood inGreifswald. In 1983, he moved with his family toBerlin. According to Liebich he was approached by theStasi at the age of 13, who asked him if he could imagine working for them at a later time.[3][4] After completing hisAbitur in 1991, he graduated fromBeuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin in business economics with a focus on information systems in 1995.[4] Liebich is not religious.[5]
In theGDR Stefan Liebich was a member of the marxist youth organisationFDJ. in 1990, on his 18th birthday, he joined theParty of Democratic Socialism (PDS).[citation needed]
In 1996 and 1998 the PDS inMarzahn elected him as chair of the district. In December 1999 he was elected co-chair of the PDS in Berlin. In 2001 he succeededPetra Pau as chairman of the Berlin PDS and was re-elected in 2003.[citation needed]
In October 2005 Liebich announced that he would not run for chairman of the Berlin PDS again. He proposedKlaus Lederer as his successor. He wanted to focus on leading the PDS’s parliamentary group at theBerlin House of Representatives.[citation needed]
Liebich has been known to work for a red-red-green coalition on a federal level. Since 2009 he has hosted meetings between the party's MPs to find a common ground.[6][7]
He represents the moderate, reformist wing of the party and advocates for an involvement of the party with government.
In 1995, 1999 and 2001 Stefan Liebich was voted into theBerlin House of Representatives for theMarzahn constituency. At the 2006 election he did not manage to win the direct mandate forPrenzlauer Berg and was subsequently elected via the PDS list.
From 2002 to 2006 he was the Chairman of the PDS parliamentary group.
Liebich ran for office for the PDS in 2002 in Berlin-Mitte and in 2005 for The Left in Berlin-Pankow. Both times he lost to the candidates of theSPD. In 2009 Liebich managed to win the direct mandate inPankow for the first time, beating the incumbentWolfgang Thierse. At the 2013 and 2017 elections he also won the direct mandate.[8]
He is the chairman of the parliamentary group of The Left in the Foreign Affairs committee of the Bundestag, currently he is the groups spokesperson for foreign policy.
In February 2020, Liebich said that he will not seek re-election to theBundestag in the2021 German federal election.,[9] and subsequently left office on 26 October 2021.
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