Anke Wirsing (born 1980) is a German politician from the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), previously Die Linke.

Until the end of 2023, Wirsing was a member of the Left Party (Die Linke) and had been managing director of the Wartburgkreis-Eisenach district association since 2014.

[1] In the 2019 Thuringian state election, she ran for The Left as a direct candidate in the Wartburgkreis III constituency and achieved the third-best result behind Marcus Malsch [de] (CDU) and Klaus Stöber (AfD), so that she did not enter the state parliament.

While her regional leader Katja Wolf wanted to make concessions in order to form a coalition, Wirsing declared her allegiance to federal chairwoman and namesake Wagenknecht.

On November 1, she wrote on Twitter: "I did not leave DIE LINKE with Sahra Wagenknecht in order to cancel the founding consensus after just a few months.