Carsten Schatz

Carsten Schatz

Carsten Schatz (born 10 January 1970) is a historian and a member of the Left Party in Germany.

He lives in Berlin, and joined the Socialist Unity Party in East Germany in 1988. He has been the local manager of the Left Party in Berlin since 2001,[1] and a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin, the state parliament of Berlin, since 2013.[2]

He is openly gay,[2] and is the first openly HIV-positive person to hold political office in Germany.[2]

  1. ^ "Führungspersonal der Berliner Linken bestätigt" [Leadership of Berlin's Left Party confirmed]. Der Tagesspiegel (in German). 2008-12-08. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
  2. ^ a b c Schmitt, Peter-Philipp (30 August 2013). "Schatz erster offen HIV-Positiver in der deutschen Politik". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 1 April 2023.