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Maren Kaminski
Member of the Bundestag
from Lower Saxony
Incumbent
Assumed office
2025
Personal details
Born (1979-02-15) 15 February 1979 (age 46)
Bramsche
Political partyDie Linke (since 2009)
Other political
affiliations		PDS (2002–2009)
SDP (until 2002)
Alma materLeibniz University Hannover

Maren Kaminski (born 15 February 1979) is a German politician from Die Linke. She was elected to the Bundestag in the 2025 German federal election.

Life

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Kaminski studied social sciences at the Leibniz University Hannover.[1] She then became union secretary of the Education and Science Union.[2] She lives in the Linden-Limmer borough of Hanover and has a daughter.[1][2]

Political career

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She was initially a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and active in the Young Socialists (Jusos).[2] As a result of the Hartz reforms of the Schröder government, she switched to the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).[2] In 2013, she ran as a mayoral candidate for The Left Party in Hanover.[2] From 2007 to 2013, she was monitored by the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which had placed an informant [de] on her.[2][3] She is the district chairwoman of The Left Party in Hanover.

State elections

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In the 2013 Lower Saxony state election, she ran as a direct candidate in the Hanover-Buchholz constituency [de].

She ran as a direct candidate in the Langenhagen constituency [de] in the 2022 Lower Saxony state election.

Federal elections

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In the 2005 German federal election, she ran as a direct candidate in the constituency of Hannover-Land I for Die Linke.

In the 2009 German federal election, she ran as a direct candidate in the Osnabrück City constituency for Die Linke.

In the 2025 German federal election, Kaminski ran as a direct candidate in the constituency of Hannover II and on the list position of the Die Linke Lower Saxony [de]. She won 10,888 (5.5%) of the first votes.[4] She was elected to the Bundestag via the state list.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b Elisabeth Woldt (24 February 2025). ""Achterbahn der Gefühle": Maren Kaminski (Linke) zieht als neue Abgeordnete für Hannover in den Bundestag ein". Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Conrad von Meding/Tobias Kurz (25 February 2025). "Plötzlich im Bundestag: Maren Kaminski aus Hannover geht nach Berlin". Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  3. ^ Andreas Speit (20 January 2022). "Verfassungsschutz-Beobachtung von Linken: Begründung? Fehlanzeige". Tageszeitung. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  4. ^ "Results Hannover-Land II - The Federal Returning Officer". bundeswahlleiterin.de. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
  5. ^ "6 Abgeordnete ziehen über die Landesliste für Niedersachsen in den Bundestag ein!". Die Linke Niedersachsen. 25 February 2025. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
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