Tobias Pflüger

Tobias Pflüger (born 1 February 1965 in Stuttgart) is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament (2004–2009). He represented the Die Linke, part of the European Left and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. He was a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Tobias Pflüger in May 2014.

Education
  • 1985: School-leaving certificate, Otto Hahn grammar school, Nagold
  • Studied politics and empirical cultural affairs at University of Tübingen
  • Activist in the peace and anti-nuclear movement since the 1980s
  • from 1989 to 1993: Personal assistant for two Green Members in the Baden-Württemberg Regional Assembly on anti-nuclear affairs, energy and peace policy
  • In 1996 founded and set up Information Agency on Militarisation e.V., Executive member and spokesman at home and abroad
  • Editor of the online magazine IMI-List (approx 1000 subscribers)
  • 2002: Scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, January–December
  • 2002: Active Member of the Attac research committee since late[1]
  • 2004: Participated and lectured at European Social Forums in Florence (2002), Paris (2003), London (2004) and the World Social Forum in Mumbai
  • Active Member of the DFG-VK (German peace association - united opponents of war, http://www.dfg-vk.de)
  • Member of the BUND (Association for Nature and Environmental Protection)
  • Member of VCD (Germany transport club)
  • Member of the VVN-BdA (Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime)
  • Member of the ver.di trade union (Subject area 8 in Baden-Württemberg)
  • Member of the dai (German-American Institute, Tübingen)
  • Executive member Information Agency on Militarisation e.V.
  • Member of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
  • Member of the Rosa Luxemburg Forum, Baden-Württemberg
  • Spokesman for the Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland PDS regional associations
  • former GUE/NGL Group coordinator on Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
  • former Member of the European Parliament Peace Initiatives Intergroup
See also: 2004 European Parliament election in Germany

References
  1. "ATTAC Scientific Advisory Board" (in German). Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
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