Sarah Vollath (

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Eichberg; born 26 December 1995) is a German politician from

Die Linke Die Linke (; ), also known as the Left Party ( ), is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The party was founded in 2007 as the result of the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and Labour and Social Justice – The ...

. She was elected a

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since the

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Life

Private and professional life

Vollath studied

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at the

Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt The Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) is a Catholic research university in Eichstätt and Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. It is the only Catholic university in Germany. Compared to other German universities it is a rather small ...

and, until taking up her Bundestag mandate, was head of an in the Upper Bavarian district town of

Eichstätt Eichstätt () is a town in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district of Eichstätt. It is located on the Altmühl river and has a population of around 13,000. Eichstätt is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Dioce ...

. Sarah Vollath is married and lives in the Eichstätt district.

Political life

Vollath has been a member of the Left Party since 2018. She was the for the . In 2024, she was elected to the executive board of the Bavarian Left Party. As third-place finisher on the Bavarian Left Party's

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, she was one of the 230 newly elected members of the 21st German Bundestag following the

. She also ran as her party's direct candidate in the

Ingolstadt Ingolstadt (; Austro-Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian: ) is an Independent city#Germany, independent city on the Danube, in Upper Bavaria, with 142,308 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2023). Around half a million people live in the metropolitan ...

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and received four percent of the first votes.

Political positions

Her political priorities are women's,

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, and

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. She advocates for nationwide funding for

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, basic child benefits, and a BAföG rate that is independent of parenthood and age. She also advocates for affordable housing and calls for a rent cap and the expropriation of property owners with a very large number of properties. Vollath opposes tightening of asylum laws and instead calls for better

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of migrant children through better funding for municipalities and schools. She also supports fairer tax policies and a fairer

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Other memberships

In addition to her membership in the Left Party, Vollath is also a member of the Education and Science Union and the

Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. (JUH; German for "St. John Accident Assistance"), commonly referred to as Die Johanniter, is a voluntary humanitarian organisation affiliated with the Brandenburg Bailiwick of the Order of St John, the German Protesta ...

External links

''Sarah Vollath''
at bundestag.de
Sarah Vollath
at abgeordnetenwatch.de
Election poster