Sebastian Walter (born 21 April 1990 in Eberswalde-Finow, GDR) is a German politician (Die Linke). Since 2019 he has been a member of the Landtag of Brandenburg and chairman of the Left Party faction there. In 2022 he was elected chairman of The Left Brandenburg alongside .[1]
After completing a bachelor's degree with teaching options in the subjects of history and at the University of Potsdam, Sebastian Walter worked as a trade union secretary for the DGB and as its regional manager in East Brandenburg. In a plenary debate on the subject of anti-Semitism, Walter described himself as the "grandson of a perpetrator, a Waffen-SS officer".
Walter was already involved in the Left Youth as a teenager. From 2012 to 2016 he was deputy chairman of his party in Brandenburg. Since 2017 he has been a member of the district council of the Barnim district.[2] In the 2019 Brandenburg state election he received a mandate in the Brandenburg state parliament . In the current electoral term Walter was parliamentary group leader of the Left Party in the Brandenburg state parliament together with until February 2021. Since February 2021 he has been the sole parliamentary group leader.[3] For the parliamentary group, Walter is the spokesman for economic policy, energy policy, digitalization and the labour market.
Since 2022, he has been the state chairwoman of the Left Party in Brandenburg with .
On November 23, 2023, Walter called AfD legislator and "Nazi pigs" during a debate on anti-Semitism in the state parliament.
He will be his party's lead candidate in the 2024 Brandenburg state election.[4]