Klaus Ernst, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Klaus Ernst

German politician

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1954

Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Profession: politician, trade unionist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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About Klaus Ernst

  • Klaus Ernst (born 1 November 1954 in Munich) is a left-wing German politician and was a leading member of the Labour and Social Justice Party and now The Left.
  • The certified political economist has served as a member of The Left in the Bundestag since 2005, and as of 2010 has been co-chairing the party together with Gesine Lötzsch. At the age of 15 he left his home and school because of his violent father.
  • In 1970 he found work as an electronics technician and was elected youth representative and member of the works council.
  • In 1972 he became a member of the German Metalworkers' Union and in 1974 he took the chair of regional trade unions youth organization in Munich (until 1979) and became a partymember of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
  • From 1979 to 1984 he studied political economy at the University of Hamburg. After his studies he became a trade union secretary in Stuttgart, responsible for organization, educational work and social plans.
  • In 1995 Ernst was elected plenipotentiary of the IG Metall in Schweinfurt. He took objection to the Agenda 2010, which he considered anti-social.
  • Instead he pleaded for the establishment of a political alliance, an electoral alternative with regard to the German federal election in 2005.
  • In the summer of 2004 the party executive decided his expulsion from the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Ernst became chairman of the association "Wahlalternative Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit e.
  • V." which had been founded on 3 July 2004.
  • Later he became leader of the new founded Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice, which emerged from the association.

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