Sabine Wils

Sabine Wils (31 May 1959 – 18 June 2023) was a German politician who was a Member of the European Parliament for Die Linke from 2009 until her death.

[1] Sabine Wils was born and grew up in Aachen, where she completed secondary school in 1977, before training as a midwife in Hamburg between 1978 and 1980.

Subsequently, she worked between 1989 and 1997 at the Environmental Agency in Hamburg, and from 2004 in the local authority for urban development and the environment.

From 1999, she was a member of the Party of Democratic Socialism and its successor, Die Linke.

[3] In the European elections in 2009, where Die Linke won eight seats, Sabine Wils was elected as the second candidate on the party's list, behind party chairman Lothar Bisky.