1. Katina Schubert was born on 28 December 1961 and is a German politician who is serving as leader of the Berlin branch of The Left and member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2016.
18 Facts About Katina Schubert
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Katina Schubert completed a traineeship as an economic journalist from 1990 to 1993.
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Katina Schubert was then Bonn correspondent for the daily newspaper Junge Welt from 1994 to 1997.
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Katina Schubert first became research assistant to Ulrich Briefs, a non-attached member of the Bundestag, in 1994.
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Katina Schubert was involved in setting up Petra Pau's Bundestag office in 1998.
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Katina Schubert then became personal assistant to Vice-President of the Bundestag Petra Blass until 2001, and from May 2001 to October 2002 an advisor to the executive committee of the PDS group.
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From 2002 to 2004, Katina Schubert worked as an expert witness for the Scientific Service of the Bundestag.
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Katina Schubert became involved in politics during her time in university.
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Katina Schubert was involved with the List of Undogmatic Students at the University of Bonn from 1983 to 1989, part of the extraparliamentary left.
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Katina Schubert became a member of the Party of Democratic Socialism in 2001.
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Katina Schubert was elected co-deputy leader of the PDS in April 2006.
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Katina Schubert left the party executive in 2008, but was re-elected again in 2010.
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On 10 June 2012, Katina Schubert was elected managing director of the Berlin branch of The Left.
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Katina Schubert was elected to the Abgeordnetenhaus in the 2016 Berlin state election on the Left state list, and became spokeswoman for labour and refugee policy as well as a member of the Committee for Integration, Labour and Social Affairs.
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In 2021, Katina Schubert was elected as one of six deputy federal leaders of The Left.
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On 6 December 2007, Katina Schubert filed a criminal complaint against the Wikimedia Foundation due to "the use of anti-constitutional symbols" on German Wikipedia.
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Katina Schubert stated that she was concerned about how platforms such as Wikipedia could be exploited by far-right extremists to promote their views, and hoped to spark a public debate about the issue.
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Katina Schubert's actions drew significant criticism, including from her party.