1. Klaus Lederer was born on 21 March 1974 and is a German politician of The Left who served as Deputy Mayor and Senator for Culture and Europe in the Berlin state government between December 2016 to April 2023.
22 Facts About Klaus Lederer
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Klaus Lederer is a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2001.
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Klaus Lederer previously served as chairman of the Berlin branch of The Left from 2006 to 2016.
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Klaus Lederer was the lead candidate for his party in the 2016,2021 and 2023 state elections.
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Klaus Lederer then spent a year in youth social work before studying law at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
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Klaus Lederer passed the first state law examination in 1998.
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Klaus Lederer then worked on his dissertation on Privatization in the water sector at the Law Faculty of Humboldt University, where he received his doctorate in 2004.
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In February 2005, Klaus Lederer received the Carl Goerdeler Award from the Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation Leipzig and the Deutsches Institut fur Urbanistik for his doctoral thesis, as well as the John Desmond Bernal Award from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brandenburg.
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Klaus Lederer is a member of the Queer Nations initiative and participated in the Equality Parade in Warsaw as part of the Queer Nations conference in 2007.
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Klaus Lederer performed several times with the Prenzlauer Berg-based a cappella group Rostkehlchen and released a CD in 2002, covering songs of the former East German punk band Feeling B in the style of a 1920s tenor.
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On 5 June 2009, Klaus Lederer entered into a civil partnership with his long-term partner.
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Klaus Lederer joined the Party of Democratic Socialism in 1992.
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Klaus Lederer entered the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin on 1 January 2003 after the resignation of Harald Wolf.
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Klaus Lederer became the PDS spokesman for legal policy and a member of the Committee for Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Immunity, and Rules of Procedure.
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In December 2005, Klaus Lederer succeeded Stefan Liebich as state chairman of the Berlin branch of the PDS, which by this time had been renamed Left Party.
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Klaus Lederer ran as a candidate in Berlin-Mitte for the 2009 and 2013 federal elections but was unsuccessful, placing fourth both times.
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Klaus Lederer became a member of the party's federal executive board in 2012, serving until 2018.
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Klaus Lederer was re-elected to the Abgeordnetenhaus in the 2006 and 2011 state elections.
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Klaus Lederer was The Left's lead candidate in the 2016 election and was re-elected; The Left became the third largest party in the Abgeordnetenhaus.
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Klaus Lederer subsequently led the Left's negotiations with the SPD and Greens to form a coalition government, which were successful.
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Klaus Lederer served as the lead candidate for The Left for a second time in the 2021 state election and was re-elected .
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On 8 December 2016, Klaus Lederer became Deputy Governing Mayor and Senator for Culture and Europe in the second Muller senate.