Thomas Lutze Explained

Thomas Lutze
Office:Leader of The Left in the Saarland
Term Start:29 September 2019
Term End:11 September 2022
Predecessor:Jochen Flackus
Successor:Barbara Spaniol
Office2:Member of the Bundestag
for Saarland
Term Start2:27 October 2009
Birth Date:1969 8, df=yes
Birth Place:Elsterwerda, East Germany
Party:The Left / SPD
Nationality:German

Thomas Lutze (born 23 August 1969) is a German politician who represents the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Previously, he was a member of the Left Party. Thomas Lutze has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saarland from 2009 to 2023, and has represented Berlin since October 2023.[1]

Life

Born in Elsterwerda, Brandenburg, Lutze grew up in Leipzig. In 1986, he completed his general secondary schooling, and three years later he completed his vocational training as a mechanical engineer in a foundry in Leipzig, which was linked to his A-levels. He then worked there as a repair fitter. In 1990 and 1991, he worked as an assembly fitter at a temporary employment agency. From 1991 to 1995 he studied design and production engineering at the University of Saarland. From 1995 to 2002, he was a regional office employee of the PDS parliamentary group in Saarbrücken. From 2003 to 2005, he retrained as an office administrator in a Saarbrücken furniture store. From 2005, he was a constituency employee of Oskar Lafontaine in Saarlouis. He became member of the bundestag after the 2009 German federal election.[2] He is a member of the Committee for Economics and Energy.[3] In his group he is spokesman for economic policy.[4]

In March 2021, Lutze became part of a political scandal.[5] Since September 2022 he is no longer the leader of The Left in the state of Saarland. He has been succeeded by Barbara Spaniol.[6]

In October 2023, Lutze resigned his membership from the Left Party and instead joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD), citing that "he no longer perceived the Left as a 'corrective' of socially undesirable developments". Lutze retained his seat in the Bundestag, but was rejected from the Saarland SPD, and instead was accepted into the Berlin SPD, specifically the Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain chapter.[7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Thomas Lutze Abgeordnetenwatch. www.abgeordnetenwatch.de. de. 17 March 2020.
  2. Web site: Profil. Fraktion Die Linke. im Bundestag. de. 17 March 2020.
  3. Web site: German Bundestag - Economic Affairs and Energy. German Bundestag. en. 17 March 2020.
  4. Web site: SprecherInnen. Fraktion Die Linke. im Bundestag. de. 17 March 2020. 28 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170228143142/https://www.linksfraktion.de/fraktion/sprecherinnen/. dead.
  5. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/thomas-lutze-staatsanwaltschaft-ermittelt-gegen-linken-bundestagsabgeordneten-a-94c8b463-2111-4244-a369-2f0ff811cba0 Spiegel.de: Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen linken Bundestagsabgeordneten (german), March 2021
  6. https://www.sr.de/sr/home/nachrichten/politik_wirtschaft/barbara_spaniol_neue_chefin_der_saar_linken_100.html Barbara Spaniol zur neuen Chefin der Saar-Linken (German), September 2022
  7. Web site: Linken-Bundestagsabgeordneter Lutze wechselt zu Berliner SPD . Yahoo News . 10 October 2023.