Wolfgang Gehrcke

Wolfgang Gehrcke (born 8 September 1943 in Boos, Bavaria) is a German left-wing politician.

Starting in the 1980s, he has held many high positions in his political parties and has been a member of the Bundestag from 1998 to 2002 and again from 2005 to 2017 after a brief year in the Landtag of Brandenburg.

From 1950 to 1959, he visited the Volksschule and studied administration from 1959 to 1961, working in such a position at the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Federal Employment Agency) until 1968.

Gehrke joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1961, shortly after it had been officially banned in 1956 and was then an underground organisation.

[1] Gehrke was a member of the German Bundestag for a total of 16 years, standing for the constituency of Frankfurt am Main II.