Christian Leye

Christian Leye
Leye in 2025
Member of the German Bundestag
In office
27 October 2021 – 23 February 2025
ConstituencyNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Personal details
Born (1981-04-06) 6 April 1981 (age 45)
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
PartyBSW (2023–present)
Other political
affiliations
The Left (until 2023)
EducationUniversity of Göttingen (MA)

Christian Leye (born 6 April 1981) is a German politician (BSW, formerly Die Linke). He was a Member of the German Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia from 2021 to 2025.

Career

Born in Bochum, Leye has been the state chairman of Die Linke in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2016. He contested Duisburg II at the 2021 federal election. He won a seat on the party list.

Leye founded the pre-association for the new party of Sahra Wagenknecht BSW. On a press-conference on 23 October 2023 he announced that he will leave The Left and join Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht.

References

  1. ↑ "Deutscher Bundestag – Christian Leye". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 ""Das fühlt sich schon etwas komisch an"". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Linke: Christian Leye zittert um Einzug in den Bundestag". www.waz.de (in German). 26 September 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  4. ↑ "Wagenknecht: A far-left challenge to Germany's far-right AfD – DW – 10/23/2023". dw.com. Retrieved 23 October 2023.