Peter Porsch

Peter Porsch (born 15 October 1944 in Vienna) is a German academic and politician.

From 1990 till 2009 he was a member of the Parliament of Saxony for the far-left party Die Linke.

[1] In the 1973 he took a job at the "Karl Marx University" (as it was then known) in Leipzig, initially as a research assistant and later as a senior researcher in the Department for German Studies / Linguistics, which he had already studied for his first degree at Vienna University from 1962 till 1968.

[3] He was fired from his job at the University of Leipzig in 2004 without any notice period,[1] after his Stasi past was revealed.

On 11 May 2006 the Parliament of Saxony decided with great majority to open a case against Porsch at the Constitutional Court of Saxony in order to revoke his parliamentary seat, according to article 118 of the Saxon Constitution, as a consequence of his Stasi past.