Pascal Meiser

{{Short description|German politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Pascal Meiser

| image = Pascal Meiser (48139796738) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Pascal Meiser in 2019

| office1 = Member of the Bundestag

| predecessor1 = Canan Bayram

| successor1 =

| term_start1 = 23 February 2025

| term_end1 =

| constituency1 = Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg – Prenzlauer Berg East

| term_start2 = 24 October 2017

| term_end2 = 4 March 2024

| constituency2 = Berlin

| predecessor2 = Multi-member district

| successor2 = Multi-member district

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1975|3|7}}

| birth_place = Saarbrücken, West Germany

| party = The Left

| nationality = German

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Pascal Meiser (born 7 March 1975) is a German politician. Born in Saarbrücken, Saarland, he represents The Left. Pascal Meiser served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Berlin from 2017 until 2024.

Life

In Lebach he passed his school-leaving examination at the Johannes-Kepler Gymnasium in 1994. He then studied political science, journalism and psychology at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, the University of Leeds and the Free University Berlin. After graduating in political science in 2005, he trained as a trade union secretary at IG Metall. He became member of the bundestag after the 2017 German federal election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.linksfraktion.de/fraktion/abgeordnete/profil/pascal-meiser/|title=Profil|last=Bundestag|first=Fraktion DIE LINKE im|website=Fraktion DIE LINKE. im Bundestag|language=de|access-date=2020-03-17}} He is a member of the Committee for Economics and Energy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a09|title=German Bundestag - Economic Affairs and Energy|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-17}} He is the spokesman for his group on services policy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.linksfraktion.de/fraktion/sprecherinnen/|title=SprecherInnen|last=Bundestag|first=Fraktion DIE LINKE im|website=Fraktion DIE LINKE. im Bundestag|language=de|access-date=2020-03-17}}

In the 2025 federal election, he will stand as a direct candidate in the Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg – Prenzlauer Berg East constituency.{{Cite web |last=Heflik |first=Katharina |date=2025-01-09 |title=Die Neuwahl verspricht einige spannende Duelle: Hier sind Berlins Direktkandidaten |url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/bundestagswahl/bundestagswahl-2025-verspricht-spannende-duelle-das-sind-berlins-direktkandidaten-und-ihre-bezirke-li.2281311}}

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