Katja Kipping
Katja Kipping (born January 18, 1978, Dresden, East Germany) is a German politician. The daughter of a teacher and an economist, she went to school from 1984 to 1996, then she made her Abitur ('A-levels') at a gymnasium in Dresden until 1997. She then spent time in Russia, before returning and becoming, in 1998, a member of the then Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), now Left Party.
[edit] Political life
She was a town councillor in Dresden from 1999 until 2003, and from September 1999 to 2004 she was a delegate in the Saxony state parliament and spokeswoman for traffic and energy policy. After July 2003 she was the deputy chairman of the PDS and from 2005 onwards she has been a Member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) for the Left Party. She is a proponent of a basic income guarantee.
[edit] External links
- (German) List of Left Party deputies in the Bundestag
- (German) Kipping's Homepage in German
