Carsten Schatz

{{Short description|German politician (born 1970)}} thumb|Carsten Schatz '''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 East Germany in 1988. He has been the local manager of the Left Party in Berlin since 2001,<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/fuehrungspersonal-der-berliner-linken-bestaetigt/1390558.html| title = Führungspersonal der Berliner Linken bestätigt| date = 2008-12-08| work = Der Tagesspiegel| language = de|trans-title=Leadership of Berlin's Left Party confirmed| access-date = 2010-09-26}}</ref> and a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin, the state parliament of Berlin, since 2013.<ref name="faz">{{Cite news|first=Peter-Philipp|last=Schmitt|title=Schatz erster offen HIV-Positiver in der deutschen Politik|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/leben-mit-hiv-diagnose-schatz-erster-offen-hiv-positiver-in-der-deutschen-politik-12552905.html|work=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|date=30 August 2013|access-date=1 April 2023|language=de}}</ref>

He is openly gay,<ref name=faz/> and is the first openly HIV-positive person to hold political office in Germany.<ref name=faz/>

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==External links== * [http://www.carsten-schatz.de/ Personal Web page] {{in lang|de}}

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