From 2005 to 2012 he was Chairman of DIE LINKE in Brandenburg (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus PDS prior to 2007).

Thomas Nord grew up in East Berlin and, after High School, completed an apprenticeship as a machinery and plant fitter.

After the events of 1989, Thomas Nord became district chairman of the PDS in Prenzlauer Berg and in 1991 country managing director of the party in Berlin.

In March 1990 Thomas Nord revealed himself as an informer of the Ministry of State Security in connection with the local elections in Berlin.

[10] On 25 February 2010, after extra discussion after a parliamentary session[11] CDU/CSU requested a review process referred to in point 3 of the "arrangement for carrying out the directives issued pursuant §44c ABGG".

On 30 June 2011, the Committee for the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure (AfW) completed the review process.

The report includes: Nord was first contacted during his time at the People's Navy and in 1984 was enlisted by the Ministry of State Security.

Official documents show that in 1977 the MfS became aware of Mr. Nord during his four-year military service in the People's Navy of the GDR from 1976 to 1980.

[12] As a youth club leader in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, he reported on young people and colleagues who were critical of the GDR.

According to his IM-flow Record, by resolution of 28 February 1984 Mr. Nord was obliged to become a GMS (Employee of MfS) and remained so until the political changes in the GDR in 1989.

In the investigation of the committee no concrete evidence was found that in his work for the MfS Thomas Nord had directly injured others.