Luigi Pantisano
{{Short description|German politician (born 1979)}}
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from Baden-Württemberg
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| party = Die Linke
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|28 July 1979 |df=yes}}
| birth_place = Waiblingen
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Luigi Pantisano (born 28 July 1979) is a German politician from Die Linke. He has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2025 German federal election.
Life
= Youth and education =
Luigi Pantisano was born to Italian parents and grew up with his brother Alfonso Pantisano{{cite web|access-date=2025-02-27 |date=2023-07-16 |language=de |title=Alfonso Pantisano: Waiblinger ist Queerbeauftragter von Berlin – so war sein Weg |url=https://www.zvw.de/lokales/waiblingen/alfonso-pantisano-waiblinger-ist-queerbeauftragter-von-berlin-so-war-sein-weg_arid-683389 |work=zvw.de}} as a toddler in Calabria.{{cite web|access-date=2025-02-27 |date=2025-02-14 |language=de |title=Zu meiner Person |url=https://www.kv-stuttgart.die-linke-bw.de/wahlen/luigi-pantisano/zu-meiner-person/ |work=Die Linke KV Stuttgart}} After attending the Staufer Haupt-und Werkrealschule in Waiblingen and training as an architectural draftsman,{{cite web|access-date=2025-03-22 |language=de |title=Deutscher Bundestag – Luigi Pantisano |url=https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/P/pantisano_luigi-1046476 |website=bundestag.de}} Pantisano studied architecture at the Stuttgart Technology University of Applied Sciences and the Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2000 to 2005. He subsequently studied urban planning at the University of Stuttgart (HfT) and graduated with a degree in engineering in 2008.{{cite web|access-date=2025-03-22 |editor=Die Linke |language=de |title=Luigi Pantisano |url=https://www.die-linke.de/partei/parteidemokratie/parteivorstand/parteivorstand-2022-2024/mitglieder-des-parteivorstandes/pantisano-luigi/ |website=die-linke.de}}
= Professional activities =
From 2009 to 2014, he worked as a {{Ill|Quartiersmanagement|lt=district manager|de|Quartiersmanagement}} in Konstanz, and from 2011 to 2015, he was an academic assistant for research and teaching at the Urban Planning Institute of the University of Stuttgart. In 2015, he held various teaching positions at the Universities of Stuttgart and Konstanz, as well as at the Stuttgart University of Technology and Design (HTWG).
From 2015 to 2016, Pantisano was political director of the SÖS-Linke-PluS parliamentary group in the Stuttgart city council and, in 2017, a research assistant to Bernd Riexinger.
Political career
Luigi Pantisano's involvement in local politics began, according to his own statements, around 1999.{{cite web|access-date=2025-03-22 |language=de |title=Fraktion DIE LINKE UND SÖS |url=https://diefraktion-stuttgart.de/fraktiongemeinschaft/luigi-pantisano-soes/ |website=diefraktion-stuttgart.de}} In 2017, he joined the Left Party. In 2020, he ran for mayor of Konstanz. After being ahead in the first round of voting, he lost to incumbent {{Ill|Ulrich Burchardt|de}} in the second round.
In 2021, Pantisano was deputy state spokesperson for {{Ill|Die Linke Baden-Württemberg|de}}. From 2022 to 2024, Pantisano was a member of the party's federal executive committee.
In the 2025 German federal election, Luigi Pantisano ran in the Stuttgart I constituency and entered the German Bundestag via second vote on the state list.
He is a member of the party's internal movement left.{{cite web|access-date=2025-03-22 |language=de |title=Bewegungslinke |url=https://bewegungslinke.org/ |website=Bewegungslinke}}
Memberships
Pantisano is a member of the {{Ill|Chamber of Architects of Baden-Württemberg|de|Architektenkammer Baden-Württemberg}}, the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists (VVN-BdA) and the United Services Union (ver.di).
References
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External links
- [https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/P/pantisano_luigi-1046476 Biographie beim Deutschen Bundestag]
- [https://www.instagram.com/luigipantisano/?hl=de Profile] at Instagram
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Category:University of Stuttgart alumni
Category:Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime members
Category:German city councillors
Category:Members of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg
Category:21st-century German politicians
Category:German people of Italian descent
Category:Members of the Bundestag 2025–2029