Jessica Tatti

Jessica Tatti
Jessica Tatti
	Jessica Tatti in 2019
Member of the Bundestag
	In office; 24 October 2017 – 23 February 2025
Personal details
Born	22 April 1981 (age 43); Marbach am Neckar, West Germany; (now Germany)
Citizenship	Germany
Political party	Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (since 2023)
Other political; affiliations	The Left (until 2023)

Jessica Tatti (born 22 April 1981) is a German politician (BSW, former The Left). Born in Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, she was member of German Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2017 to 2025. She switched party from The Left in October 2023 to "Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht".^[1]

Life

She is of Italian descent. Her grandparents hail from Sardinia.^[2] Tatti studied social work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigsburg and was employed in the corresponding professional field after her bachelor's degree: In 2010, she moved to Reutlingen and initially worked in urban youth work; before her parliamentary mandate in the German Bundestag, she most recently worked in social services in refugee care for the Esslingen district association of Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO). She became member of the Bundestag after the 2017 German federal election.^[3] She is a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs.^[4]

In October 2023 she declared that she would quit Die Linke and follow Sahra Wagenknecht into her new party. Tatti rejected the demand to resign from the Bundestag mandate she had won through Die Linke.^[5]^[6]

She ran as top candidate for BSW Baden-Württemberg at 2025 German Federal election.^[7] The BSW received less than 5 percent and did not enter the Bundestag.

References

^ "Jessica Tatti | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 18 March 2020.
^ Kurz, Ushi. "Arbeit, Wohnen, Integration". www.tagblatt.de. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
^ Bundestag, Fraktion DIE LINKE im. "Profil". Fraktion DIE LINKE. im Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 18 March 2020.
^ "German Bundestag - Labour and Social Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
^ GmbH, Klarner Medien. "Jessica Tatti zum Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht | RTF.1". RTF.1 - Regionalfernsehen. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
^ "Wagenknecht und ihr Erbe: Die Linke verschiebt ihre Insolvenz". www.fr.de (in German). 8 November 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
^ "BSW-Landeschefin spricht von fulminantem Ergebnis". Süddeutsche.de (in German). 23 February 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.