Christian Görke | |
Birth Date: | 17 March 1962 |
Birth Place: | Rathenow, German Democratic Republic |
Office1: | Member of the Bundestag |
Term Start1: | 2021 |
Office2: | Minister of Finance of Brandenburg |
Term Start2: | 2014 |
Term End2: | 2019 |
Predecessor2: | Helmuth Markov |
Office3: | Member of the Landtag of Brandenburg |
Term Start3: | 2003 |
Term End3: | 2021 |
Office4: | Member of Rathenow City Council |
Term Start4: | 1998 |
Term End4: | 2014 |
Party: | The Left (2007–) Party of Democratic Socialism (1989–2007) Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1985–1989) |
Alma Mater: | University of Potsdam |
Christian Görke (born 17 March 1962) is a German politician for Die Linke and was deputy Minister-president of the federal state of Brandenburg from 2014 to 2019.
Görke was born 1962 in Rathenow and became a teacher in 1988.
In 1985 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and after German reunification became member of Die Linke, serving as the party's federal chairman in Brandenburg from 2014 to 2018.[1]
He became a Member of the Bundestag in the 2021 federal election, contesting Cottbus – Spree-Neiße but coming in fifth place.[2]