Matthias Birkwald

From 1988 to 1990, Matthias Birkwald was a member of the renewal movement of the German Communist Party in Cologne and in the Rhineland district.

In the PDS, he held several delegate mandates and 1994 campaign director of the North Rhine-Westphalian State Association.

[1] At the merger convention of the party Die Linke in June 2007, Matthias Birkwald participated as a delegate of the Federal Working Group on Citizens' Rights and Democracy.

In the federal election on 27 September 2009, Matthias Birkwald moved to the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia in the German Bundestag.

He became a full member and chairman of the Left in the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and pension policy spokesman of his group.