Tobias Pflüger | |
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 Pflüger in 2014 | |
| Deputy Leader ofThe Left | |
| Assumed office 11 May 2014 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 24 October 2017 – 26 October 2021 | |
| Constituency | Baden-Württemberg |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 20 July 2004 – 21 July 2009 | |
| Constituency | Germany |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Tobias Pflüger (1965-02-01)1 February 1965 (age 60) |
| Political party | The Left |
| Residence | Tübingen |
| Alma mater | University of Tübingen |
Tobias Pflüger (born 1 February 1965) is a German politician ofThe Left serving as one of six deputy leaders of the party since 2014. From 2017 to 2021 he was a member of theBundestag, and from 2004 to 2009 a member of theEuropean Parliament.
Pflüger's father was a pastor and his mother acatechist.[1] He grew up inMöglingen,Calw, andNagold, where he graduated from the Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium in 1985. He then studied political science and empirical cultural studies at theUniversity of Tübingen.[2]
Pflüger has been active in thepeace movement since the 1980s. At the age of 16, he joinedThe Greens. From 1989 to 1993, he was research assistant to Christine Mussler-Frohne, a Green member of theLandtag of Baden-Württemberg, specialising in theanti-nuclear movement, energy, and peace policy.[1][2]
In 1996, he co-founded theInformation Centre on Militarisation (IMI). Until 2004 he was a member of the organisation's board and a consultant for domestic and foreign issues. For several years he was a member of the editorial board of the journalScience and Peace. From 1997 to 2003, he was co-editor and frequent author of the magazineGraswurzelrevolution. From January 2000 to December 2002, Pflüger held a doctoral fellowship from theRosa Luxemburg Foundation, but did not submit a dissertation. Since late 2002, he has been an active member of the scientific advisory board ofAttac.[2]
He participated in theEuropean Social Forum in Florence (2002), Paris (2003), London (2004), Athens (2006), and Malmö (2008), as well as theWorld Social Forum in Mumbai (2004), Porto Alegre (2005), Caracas (2006), and Nairobi (2007). In 2003 he participated in numerous events concerning the topics of German participation in theIraq War, Bundeswehr and defence policy,militarism in the EU, and theEU Constitution, among others.
In January 2019, Pflüger was a guest on aSea-Watch ship in the Mediterranean.[3] The same year, he became a member of theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly.[2]
Though originally a member of the Greens, Pflüger left the party in 2001. In the2004 European Parliament election, he ran for theParty of Democratic Socialism (PDS), though he did not join the party.[1] He was elected to the European Parliament and served on theCommittee on Foreign Affairs.[2] He ran for re-election in the2009 European Parliament election in tenth place on The Left list, but was not elected.[citation needed]
In March 2006, Pflüger signed the founding appeal of the Anti-Capitalist Left, a radical internal faction of the PDS/Left.[4] He joinedThe Left in May 2008. In May 2010, he became a member of the party executive; in 2014, he was elected co-deputy chairman of the party.[2]
Pflüger ran for theBundestag in fourth place on The Left list in the2017 German federal election and was elected. He also stood in the constituency ofFreiburg and won 7.3% of votes.[2] In the 19th Bundestag, he was a member of the defence committee and a substitute member of the committees on foreign affairs and EU affairs.[citation needed]
He ran for the Bundestag again in the2021 German federal election in sixth place on the Baden-Württemberg party list, but lost re-election.[5]
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