Sarah Vollath
Sarah Vollath | |
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 Sarah Vollath in 2024 | |
| Member of the Bundestag for Bavaria | |
| Assumed office 2025 | |
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| Born | Sarah Eichberg 26 December 1995 Ingolstadt, Germany |
| Political party | Die Linke |
| Alma mater | Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt |
Sarah Vollath (née Eichberg; born 26 December 1995) is a German politician from Die Linke. She was elected a member of the German Bundestag since the 2025 German federal election.
Life
[edit]Private and professional life
[edit]Vollath studied social work at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and, until taking up her Bundestag mandate, was head of an open all-day school in the Upper Bavarian district town of Eichstätt.
Sarah Vollath is married and lives in the Eichstätt district.
Political life
[edit]Vollath has been a member of the Left Party since 2018. She was the equal opportunities officer for the Bavarian Left Party.[1] In 2024, she was elected to the executive board of the Bavarian Left Party. As third-place finisher on the Bavarian Left Party's state list, she was one of the 230 newly elected members of the 21st German Bundestag following the 2025 German federal election. She also ran as her party's direct candidate in the Ingolstadt constituency and received four percent of the first votes.[2]
Political positions
[edit]Her political priorities are women's, family, and education policy.[3] She advocates for nationwide funding for women's shelters, 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 integration of migrant children through better funding for municipalities and schools. She also supports fairer tax policies and a fairer distribution of wealth.[4]
Other memberships
[edit]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.
External links
[edit]- Sarah Vollath at bundestag.de
- Sarah Vollath at abgeordnetenwatch.de
- Election poster
References
[edit]- ^ "Bundestagswahl 2025: Dafür steht Sarah Vollath, Kandidatin der Linken". augsburger-allgemeine (in German). 2025-01-31. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
- ^ "Ergebnisse Ingolstadt - Die Bundeswahlleiterin". www.bundeswahlleiterin.de. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
- ^ "Linke der Region Ingolstadt nominieren Sarah Vollath als Bundestagskandidatin". Donaukurier.de (in German). 2024-12-15. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
- ^ "Eichstätter Linke wählt einstimmig Kandidaten für Landtags- und Bezirkstagswahl". Donaukurier.de (in German). 2025-03-12. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
See also
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