Evrim Sommer

Helin Evrim Sommer (née Evrim Baba; born 7 February 1971) is a German politician of The Left party. She was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1999 to 2016; since 2017 she has been a member of the German Bundestag from the state of Berlin.[1]

Evrim Sommer
Evrim Sommer in 2016
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born
Helin Evrim Baba

(1971-02-07) 7 February 1971
Varto, Muş Province, Turkey
CitizenshipGermany
Political partyThe Left
OccupationHistorian

Life

Sommer was born as Hêlîn Evrim Baba in Varto, Turkey. Her family is of Kurdish-Alevite origin. Her father was persecuted for his activity as a socialist trade unionist. After the 1980 coup d'état, the family fled to West Berlin.

After completing her language training, Baba passed the state examination for interpreters and translators in 1997 and ran a translation agency until 2000. She worked as an interpreter, translator and expert for notaries and courts as well as for the Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees in Berlin and Brandenburg. From 2005 to 2007 she studied Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin, followed by History and Gender Studies. She completed her studies in November 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.[2] She is married to historian Robert Sommer, with one child.

Baba joined the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in 1997. Two years later she was elected to the Berlin state parliament (Abgeordnetenhaus),[3] where she represented the borough of Lichtenberg until 2016. The PDS merged into The Left party in 2007 and Sommer served as the chairman of the local chapter of that party in Lichtenberg from 2012 to 2016. In that year, she ran for the mayor's office of the Lichtenberg borough. She renounced her candidacy after failing to win a majority in the first two ballots, lacking support from some members of her own party. There were accusations that she had falsely claimed an academic degree before completing it, which proved to be untrue.

At the 2017 German federal election she was elected member of the German Bundestag.[4] She is a member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, a delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the deputy chair of the German–Transcaucasian parliamentary co-operation group.[5]

References
  1. "Helin Evrim Sommer | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  2. "Deutscher Bundestag - Helin Evrim Sommer". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-22.
  3. "Linke möchte Macht in Lichtenberg". www.tagesspiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-22.
  4. Bundestag, Fraktion DIE LINKE im. "Profil". Fraktion DIE LINKE. im Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  5. "German Bundestag - Economic Cooperation and Development". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
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