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Sahra Wagenknecht: A Prominent German Politician
Early Life and Family
Sahra Wagenknecht was born Sarah Wagenknecht in 1969 in Jena, East Germany. Her father was an agricultural engineer, and her mother was a chemist. Wagenknecht has described her childhood as "strict" and "sheltered." She has two children, a daughter with her former husband Ralph Thomas Niemeyer and a son with her current partner Oskar Lafontaine.
Political Career
Wagenknecht began her political career in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), the ruling party of East Germany. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, she joined the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor party to the SED. Wagenknecht served as a member of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 1998 and again from 2009 to 2021. She was a prominent member of the Left Party, which was formed in 2007 through the merger of the PDS and the Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice.
Wagenknecht has been a controversial figure throughout her career. She has been criticized for her views on immigration, capitalism, and NATO. However, she remains a popular figure among many left-wing voters in Germany.
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