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Simone Oldenburg

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Simone Oldenburg
Oldenburg in 2017.

Deputy Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 November 2021
Minister President	Manuela Schwesig
Preceded by	Harry Glawe
Minister for Education of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 November 2021
Preceded by	Bettina Martin
Leader of The Left in the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Incumbent
Assumed office September 2016
Deputy	Jeannine Rösler Jacqueline Bernhardt
Preceded by	Helmut Holter
Deputy Leader of The Left
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 June 2018
Deputy Leader of The Left in the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
In office 27 September 2011 – September 2016
Leader	Helmut Holter
Succeeded by	Jeannine Rösler Jacqueline Bernhardt
Member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 September 2011
Constituency	List

Personal details
Born	Simone Oldenburg (1969-03-22) 22 March 1969 (age 55) Wismar, East Germany
Political party	The Left (2007–present) PDS (before 2007)
Alma mater	Leipzig University

Simone Oldenburg (born 22 March 1969) is a German politician of The Left who has been Deputy Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2021. She has been a member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2011, and served as parliamentary leader of The Left since September 2016. Since June 2018, she has also been co-deputy leader of the federal party. Oldenburg was The Left's lead candidate for the 2021 state election.^[1]

Early life and education

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Simone Oldenburg was born in 1969 in Wismar. After graduating from high school there, she first completed a teaching degree in German and history at the Leipzig University of Education, then at the University of Leipzig in 1994. She then worked as a teacher at the regional school in Klütz.

Political career

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Oldenburg has been a member of the municipal council of Gägelow since 2004, and since 2009 of the Nordwestmecklenburg district council. She was elected to the state Landtag in the 2011 state election, second on The Left party list. She also ran unsuccessfully in the direct mandate of Nordwestmecklenburg I. After the constituent session of parliament, she became deputy leader of the party's parliamentary group.^[2]

She was re-elected in the 2016 state election. After the election, she was elected leader of The Left's parliamentary group. She was elected deputy chair of the federal Left party at a conference in June 2018.^[3] In 2021, she was nominated as lead candidate for the upcoming state election.^[1]

The Left won 9.9% of votes in the election, placing fourth. After the election, Oldenburg stated that the landslide victory of the Social Democratic Party called for a shift to the left in government.^[4] On 13 October, the SPD entered coalition talks with the Left.^[5] The parties successful agreed to a coalition government, and Oldenburg was sworn in as Deputy Minister-President and education minister on 15 November.^[6]

References

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^ ^a ^b "Oldenburg shall be top candidate of The Left". Norddeutscher Rundfunk. 28 January 2021.
^ "Holter leads left in Schwerin Castle". Norddeutscher Rundfunk. 27 September 2011. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012.
^ "Simone Oldenburg elected deputy party chairman in Leipzig". The Left Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 9 June 2018.
^ "State election MV: Schwesig's SPD triumphs - CDU experiences debacle". Norddeutscher Rundfunk (in German). 27 September 2021.
^ "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Schwesig wants to govern with the Left Party". tagesschau.de (in German). Tagesschau. 13 October 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
^ "Schwesig is re-elected as Minister-President of MV". Norddeutscher Rundfunk (in German). 15 November 2021.

The Left

(German: Die Linke)

Chairpeople

Bundestag	Dietmar Bartsch Amira Mohamed Ali
Berlin	Anne Helm Carsten Schatz
Brandenburg	Kathrin Dannenberg [arz; de] Sebastian Walter
Bremen	Sofia Leonidakis Nelson Janßen [arz; de]
Hamburg	Sabine Boeddinghaus [arz; de] Cansu Özdemir
Hesse	Janine Wissler
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Simone Oldenburg
Saxony	Rico Gebhardt
Saxony-Anhalt	Thomas Lippmann Eva von Angern
Thuringia	Susanne Hennig-Wellsow

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