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. She was a town councillor in Dresden from 1999 until 2003, and... more

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. 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 deputy chairman of the PDS and from 2005 has been a Member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) for the Left Party. She is a proponent of a guaranteed minimum income. less