14 Facts About Nicole Gohlke

Nicole Stephanie Gohlke was born on 15 November 1975 and is a German politician.

Nicole Gohlke has been a member of the Bundestag since autumn 2009.

Nicole Gohlke was one of her party's eight top candidates for the 2013 Bundestag elections.

Nicole Gohlke first joined politics in 1991 in the movement against both the Gulf War and the racist pogroms in the 1990s.

Nicole Gohlke became a member of the coordination group of Attac Munich, to which she belonged until 2003, and took part in the protests against the World Economic Summit in Genoa in the summer of 2001.

Nicole Gohlke was re-elected, is a member of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment, and is the spokesperson for higher education and science policy of The Left in the Bundestag.

Nicole Gohlke was re-elected via the state list in 2017.

Nicole Gohlke is a member of the Advisory Board of the Studentenwerk and the Parliamentary Advisory Board of the Fernuniversitat in Hagen, of the Forderkreis demokratische Volks- und Hochschulbildung, and of the Kurt-Eisner-Verein in Bavaria.

Nicole Gohlke criticizes university tuition fees, the Bologna Process, and expensive housing for students.

Nicole Gohlke calls for the restriction of fixed-term employment contracts in the higher education sector: only "formal and certifiable qualification goals" should justify a time limit.

Nicole Gohlke's opinion is that there should be "permanent positions" for "permanent tasks".

At a public event on the Battle of Kobane on 18 October 2014, Nicole Gohlke waved a PKK flag and called on the federal government to stop criminalizing this symbol, as "a struggle for freedom, human rights and democracy is currently being waged" under this flag.

The accusation was tried before the Munich District Court, which merely warned Nicole Gohlke and imposed a fine of 1,000 euros.

Nicole Gohlke was, until 2015, the last member of the Bundestag to be observed by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution.