{{Short description|German politician (born 1993)}} {{Infobox officeholder | office = Member of the Landtag of Saarland | image = Dennis Lander-7299.jpg | caption = Dennis Lander in 2017 | birth_date = 7 July 1993 | birth_place = Saarbrücken, Saarland | party = Die Linke | term_start = 2017 | term_end = 2022 }}
'''Dennis Marc Lander''' (born 7 July 1993) is a German politician from Die Linke. From 2017 to 2022 he was a member of the Landtag of Saarland.
== Biography == '''Dennis Lander''' lives in Saarbrücken. He attended the {{Interlanguage link|Christian-von-Mannlich-Gymnasium|de}} in Homburg. After graduating from high school, Lander worked as a research assistant in the forensic medicine department at the Winterberg Clinic in Saarbrücken. In the 2017 Saarland state election, the then 23-year-old was elected as the youngest member of the Landtag of Saarland. Since 2017, Lander has been the spokesperson for internal and legal policy, youth policy, and drug policy for the Left Party parliamentary group in the state parliament. He is also the chairman of the parliamentary inquiry committee investigating the handling of reports of suspected child abuse at Saarland University Hospital since October 2003, and serves as its deputy chairman. He is committed to fighting fascism and racism, upholding fundamental and civil rights, promoting economic democracy, and advocating for a politics that is not corruptible. Among other things, he calls for the legalization of cannabis<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-05-31 |archive-date=2017-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328021740/http://www4.unserding.de/inhalt/aktuell/portrat-dennis-lander-die-linke |title=Wahl Spezial: Porträt: Dennis Lander (Die Linke) |url=http://www4.unserding.de/inhalt/aktuell/portrat-dennis-lander-die-linke |website=UnserDing.de}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> and the introduction of economic democracy. He did not run for re-election in the 2022 Saarland state election.
In the Left Party, Lander was a member of the Saarbrücken district executive committee and the St. Johann local executive committee. He is now a member of the spokespersons' council of the Saarbrücken-Malstatt local branch and a member of the state spokespersons' council of the youth organization Left Youth Solid. He is also a spokesperson for the state working group on drug policy.
He was a member of the following committees in the state parliament:<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-05-31 |archive-date=2017-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328021740/http://www4.unserding.de/inhalt/aktuell/portrat-dennis-lander-die-linke |title=Wahl Spezial: Porträt: Dennis Lander (Die Linke) |url=http://www4.unserding.de/inhalt/aktuell/portrat-dennis-lander-die-linke |website=UnserDing.de}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
* Committee on Home Affairs and Sport * Committee on Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family * Committee on Justice, Constitutional and Legal Affairs and Election Review * Committee on Europe and Interregional Parliamentary Council Affairs * Subcommittee on Data Protection and Freedom of Information<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-05-31 |archive-date=2017-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328021740/http://www4.unserding.de/inhalt/aktuell/portrat-dennis-lander-die-linke |title=Wahl Spezial: Porträt: Dennis Lander (Die Linke) |url=http://www4.unserding.de/inhalt/aktuell/portrat-dennis-lander-die-linke |website=UnserDing.de}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> * Handling of reports of suspected child abuse cases at Saarland University Hospital since October 2003
== Social functions ==
* Member of the state spokesperson council of the Left Youth Solid * Spokesperson for the State Working Group on Drug Policy in the Left Party * Member of ''Victim Support Association'' and Amnesty International * Supporting member of the Peter Imandt Society and the Rosa Luxemburg Society
== References == {{Reflist}} <references responsive="" />
== External links == {{Commons}}
* [http://www.linksfraktion-saarland.de/fraktion/linksfraktion/dennis_lander/ Biographie Fraktion DIE LINKE im Saarland], accessed on 10 November 2017 * Biographie beim Saarländischen Landtag * [https://wahl2017.dielinke-saar.de/dennis-lander/ Wahl 2017. Die Linke Saarland.de: Dennis Lander] * [http://saar.city/dennis-lander-zur-privatisierung-der-gesundheit-und-zur-pflege/ Saar-City: Dennis Lander zur Privatisierung der Gesundheit und zur Pflege] * [http://www.ardmediathek.de/radio/103-7-UnserDing/Dennis-Lander-Linke-Reiche-h%C3%B6her-bes/103-7-UnserDing/Video?bcastId=15918032&documentId=41505560 ARD Mediathek: Dennis Lander: „Reiche höher besteuern"] * [http://www.linksfraktion-saarland.de/fraktion/linksfraktion/dennis_lander/ Linksfraktion Saar: Dennis Lander]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lander, Dennis}} Category:Living people Category:1993 births Category:Politicians from Saarbrücken Category:Die Linke politicians Category:Members of the Landtag of Saarland