10 Facts About Norman Paech

Norman Paech then worked as a researcher at the University of Hamburg.

Norman Paech is a member of the ATTAC scientific advisory board.

Norman Paech became a member of the SPD in 1969 and, from 1972 to 1973, belonged to the state executive board of the Young Socialists in Hamburg.

Norman Paech resigned from the SPD in 2001, after the party's Red-Green coalition passed a resolution to deploy the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan.

In 2000, following a ruling by the Areios Pagos, Norman Paech said that Germany had to compensate the victims of Nazi war crimes in Greece.

Norman Paech was a member of the 16th German Bundestag, having been elected via the open candidate list of Die Linkspartei.

Norman Paech became an official member of this party in 2007 and was its spokesman on foreign affairs and representative in the Federal Constitutional Court proceedings against the Panavia Tornado missions in Afghanistan.

Norman Paech denied the article's claims of him belittling Palestinian violence.

Norman Paech was among eleven PDS MPs who abstained from voting on the anti-semitism declaration, which was made on the occasion of the 70th Kristallnacht anniversary.

Together with Inge Hoger and Annette Groth, Norman Paech accompanied the international relief convoy to the Gaza Strip in May 2010.