Dora Heyenn (born 16 May 1949 in Kopendorf on

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) is a German biology and chemistry teacher and politician of Germany's Left Party and member of the state parliament of Hamburg, who Heyenn isn't a member of the Left party parliamentary group.

Political career

From 1971 on a member of the

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, she was a member of the SPD's executive board in Germany's federal state of

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from 1979 until 1983. In 1990 she moved up to become a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1999, she left the social democrats over her rejection of Chancellor Schröder's Hartz reforms. In 2005, she became a founding member of the WASG which eventually merged to become ''Die Linke'' in Germany. In the 2008 state election, she led her party for the first time into representation in the German federal state of

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and since then has been a member of the Hamburg Parliament. Following the 2011 state elections, she became parliamentary leader of her party. In 2012, Heyenn ran for co-leadership in the federal party, but with just above 29 percent lost to fellow candidate

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who received 67 percent. In the

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s she was again list leader of her party.

References

External links

Profile on her party's page

Biography on the page of the Schleswig-Holstein Parliament
1949 births Living people Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Members of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein Members of the Hamburg Parliament The Left (Germany) politicians 21st-century German politicians Women members of State Parliaments in Germany 21st-century German women politicians {{Germany-Left-politician-stub