Carsten Schatz
German politician

Carsten Schatz

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German politician
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10 January 1970(Altenburg, Germany)
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Carsten Schatz (born 10 January 1970) is a historian and a member of the Left Party in Germany.

He lives in Berlin, and joined the Socialist Unity Party in 1988. He has been the local manager of the Left Party in Berlin since 2001, and a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin, the state parliament of Berlin, since 2013.

He is out as gay, and is the first openly HIV-positive person to hold political office in Germany.