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{{Short description|German lawyer and left-wing politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-suffix    = [[Member of the German Bundestag|MdB]]
| image               = 2025-01-18 Außerordentlicher Bundesparteitag Die Linke 2025 in Berlin by Sandro Halank–177.jpg
| caption             = Gysi in 2025
| office              = [[President by right of age of the Bundestag]]
| term_start          = 25 March 2025
| term_end            = 
| predecessor         = [[Peter Ramsauer]]
| successor           = 
| office1             = President of the [[Party of the European Left]]
| term_start1         = 17 December 2016
| term_end1           = 15 December 2019
| predecessor1        = [[Pierre Laurent (politician)|Pierre Laurent]]
| successor1          = [[Heinz Bierbaum]]
| office2             = [[Leader of the Opposition (Germany)|Leader of the Opposition]]
| chancellor2         = [[Angela Merkel]]
| term_start2         = 17 December 2013
| term_end2           = 12 October 2015
| successor2          = [[Sahra Wagenknecht]]<br />[[Dietmar Bartsch]]
| office3             = Leader of [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]] in the [[Bundestag]]
| term_start3         = 18 October 2005
| term_end3           = 12 October 2015
| predecessor3        = ''Position established''
| successor3          = [[Sahra Wagenknecht]]<br />[[Dietmar Bartsch]]
| office4             = [[Member of the German Bundestag|Member]] of the [[Bundestag]]<br />for [[Berlin-Treptow-Köpenick]]
| term_start4         = [[2005 German federal election#Campaign|18 October 2005]]
| term_end4           = 
| predecessor4        = Siegfried Scheffler

{{Collapsed infobox section begin |last=yes |Berlin state politics <br /> (2001–2002)
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| office4             = [[Governing Mayor of Berlin|Mayor of Berlin]]
| term_start4         = 17 January 2002
| term_end4           = 29 August 2002
| predecessor4        = Klaus Böger
| successor4          = Harald Wolf
| 1blankname4         = Governing Mayor
| 1namedata4          = [[Klaus Wowereit]]

| office5             = [[Senate of Berlin|Senator for Labour, Economics and Women of Berlin]]
| term_start5         = 17 January 2002
| term_end5           = 29 August 2002
| predecessor5        = Juliane von Friesen
| successor5          = Harald Wolf
| 1blankname5         = {{nowrap|Governing Mayor}}
| 1namedata5          = [[Klaus Wowereit]]

| office6            = Member of the [[Berlin House of Representatives]]<br />for [[Marzahn-Hellersdorf|Marzahn-Hellersdorf 5]]
| term_start6        = [[2001 Berlin state election|29 November 2001]]
| term_end6          = 6 August 2002
| predecessor6        = [[Mario Czaja]]
| successor6          = Steffen Zillich{{Collapsed infobox section end}}}}

{{Collapsed infobox section begin |last=yes |Early federal politics <br /> (1989–2001)
 |titlestyle=border:1px dashed lightgrey;}}{{Infobox officeholder |embed=yes
| office7             = Leader of the [[Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)|Party of Democratic Socialism]] in the [[Bundestag]]
| term_start7         = 3 October 1990
| term_end7           = 2 October 2000
| predecessor7        = ''Position established''
| successor7          = [[Roland Claus]]

| office8             = Leader of the [[Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)|Party of Democratic Socialism]]
| term_start8         = 18 December 1989
| term_end8           = 31 January 1993
| predecessor8        = ''himself'' (as Leader of the [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]])
| successor8          = [[Lothar Bisky]]

| office9             = [[Member of the German Bundestag|Member]] of the [[Bundestag]]<br />for [[Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf|Berlin-Hellersdorf-Marzahn]]<br />([[Volkskammer]]; 1990)
| term_start9         = [[1990 German federal election#Campaign|3 October 1990]]
| term_end9           = 1 February 2002
| predecessor9        = [[German reunification|''Constituency established'']]
| successor9          = Bärbel Grygier

| office10             = Member of the [[Volkskammer]]<br />for [[East Berlin|Berlin]]
| term_start10         = 5 April 1990
| term_end10           = 2 October 1990
| predecessor10        = ''Constituency established''
| successor10          = [[German reunification|''Constituency abolished'']]

| office11             = Leader of [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]]
| term_start11         = 9 December 1989
| term_end11           = 17 December 1989
| predecessor11        = [[Egon Krenz]]
| successor11          = ''himself'' (as Leader of the [[Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)|Party of Democratic Socialism]])}}{{Collapsed infobox section end}}
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1948|1|16|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Lichtenberg, Berlin|Lichtenberg]], East Berlin, [[Soviet occupation zone of Germany]] (now Germany)
| children            = 3
| profession          = 
| occupation          = {{hlist|Politician|lawyer}}
| residence           = [[Pankow (locality)|Berlin-Pankow]]
| alma_mater          = [[Humboldt University of Berlin]] ([[Diplom-Jurist|Dipl.-Jur.]], [[Doctor of Law#Germany|PhD]])
| spouse              = {{marriage|Andrea Gysi|1996|2013|end=divorced}}
| website             = {{url|gregorgysi.de}}
| birth_name          = Gregor Florian Gysi
| party               = [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]] (2007–present)
| otherparty          = [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|SED]] (1967–1989)<br>[[Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)|PDS]] (1989–2007)<br>[[Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative|WASG]] (2005–2007)
| parents             = [[Klaus Gysi]] (father)
}}
'''Gregor Florian Gysi''' ({{IPA|de|ˈɡʁeːɡoːɐ̯ ˈɡiːzi}}; born 16 January 1948) is a German attorney, former president of the [[Party of the European Left]] and a prominent politician of [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]] ({{lang|de|Die Linke}}) political party.<ref>bbc news, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24035677 Profile], bbc.co.uk; accessed 16 September 2015.</ref>

He belonged to the reformist wing of the governing [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]] at the time of the pro-democracy transition inspired by then Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]. He has strongly denied allegations that he used to assist the [[Stasi]], the East German secret police. He was the last leader of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and led the effort that transformed it into the post-Communist [[Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)|Party of Democratic Socialism]] (PDS), forerunner of The Left.

==Family background==
Gysi was born in [[Berlin-Lichtenberg]] in East Berlin, [[Soviet Zone of Germany]]. His father was [[Klaus Gysi]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture|date=1999|publisher=Routledge|last=Sandford |first=John |isbn=0415245885|location=London |oclc=48138199}}</ref> a high-ranking official in East Germany who served as the Minister of Culture from 1966 to 1973. His mother, Irene Olga Lydia Gysi (''née'' Lessing; 1912–2007), was the sister of political activist [[Gottfried Lessing]], who was married to British writer and [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] [[Doris Lessing]] during his exile in [[Southern Rhodesia]]. The surname "Gysi" is of Swiss-German origin.<ref name=nyt1>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/15/world/upheaval-in-the-east-east-german-asks-help-of-us-in-keeping-his-country-separate.html|title=Upheaval In The East; East German Asks Help of U.S. In Keeping His Country Separate|first=Craig R.|last=Whitney|work=[[New York Times]]|date=15 December 1989|access-date=20 June 2013}}</ref> He is of partial [[Jewish]] ancestry; his paternal grandmother was Jewish, as was one of his maternal great-grandfathers.<ref name=nyt1/><ref>{{cite web|first=Konstantin|last=Kamp|url=http://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/dr_gregor_gysi-650-5874--f224109.html#q224109|title=Frage zum Thema Familie|publisher=Abgeordnetenwatch.de|access-date=27 March 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621131946/http://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/dr_gregor_gysi-650-5874--f224109.html#q224109|archive-date=21 June 2010}}</ref> One of his maternal great-grandmothers was Russian.<ref name=nyt1/> 

==Career==
===Pre-1989===
Gysi's political career began in the then-ruling [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]] (SED) of East Germany, to which he was admitted in 1967. In 1971 he became a licensed attorney, and during the 1970s and 1980s defended several prominent dissidents, including [[Rudolf Bahro]], [[Robert Havemann]], [[Ulrike Poppe]], and [[Bärbel Bohley]].

[[Image:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1104-042, Berlin, Demonstration, Rede Gregor Gysi.jpg|thumb|left|Gregor Gysi at the [[Alexanderplatz demonstration]] in November 1989]]

In addition to his legal work, Gysi emerged as one of East Germany's leading [[Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev]]-inspired political reformists within the SED, especially towards the end of the 1980s. In 1989, he and a group of lawyers presented a counter-draft to the government's Travel Bill, which authorised mass public demonstrations. This led to a mass rally on East-Berlin's [[Alexanderplatz demonstration|Alexanderplatz]] on 4 November<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2023-09-13|date=2022|language=de|publisher=Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland|title=Alexanderplatz: Plenty of Space for Free Speech|url=https://www.orte-der-einheit.de/en/alexanderplatz/|website=Sites of Unity}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> in which he spoke and called for reforms, including free elections. In December 1989, he became a member of a special SED party session investigating official corruption and abuse of power.

===Fall of Communism===
In an interview conducted in 2011, Gysi recalled that in late 1989 he had become the attorney for several of the people who were arrested in the first early public protests. As such he became known to leading figures in the Artistic and Cultural unions and was contacted by a group of actresses about the legality of a large demonstration. He recalls having examined the laws and advising them that they could apply for such a permit from the police and the worst outcome would be that their request could be denied, but they would not be breaking any law or doing anything illegal. He further recalls assisting the group in requesting and completing the appropriate forms and paperwork required for such a permit.<ref>{{Citation|title=Gregor Gysi: Größte Demo der DDR| newspaper=zeitzeugen-portal|date=20 September 2011|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW6EMsYGEl4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101134116/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW6EMsYGEl4 |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 November 2022 |access-date=2 July 2019}}</ref>

In December 1989, [[Egon Krenz]], the last Communist leader of East Germany, resigned all of his posts. Gysi was elected as the party's chairman. He did not, however, become the leader of East Germany; the SED had abandoned its monopoly of power on 1 December. In his first speech, Gysi declared that the SED had brought the country to ruin, repudiating everything it had done since 1949. He declared that the party needed to adopt a new form of socialism.<ref name=Thompson>{{cite book |title=The World Today Series: Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe 2008|last=Thompson|first=Wayne C.|year=2008|publisher=Stryker-Post Publications|location=Harpers Ferry, West Virginia|isbn=978-1-887985-95-6}}</ref>

To that end, he immediately set about transforming the SED into a [[democratic socialism|democratic socialist]] party. Before the year was out, the last hardliners in the SED leadership had either resigned or been pushed out. On 16 December, the SED was renamed the Socialist Unity Party – Party of Democratic Socialism (SED-PDS), it later became simply the [[Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)|Party of Democratic Socialism]] (PDS). Gysi remained as party chairman, and in March 1990 was elected to the [[People's Chamber|Volkskammer]] in [[1990 East German general election|the first free election of that body]]. The Volkskammer dissolved itself upon [[German reunification]] on 3 October 1990, but 144 members, Gysi among them, were chosen to join the [[List of members of the 11th Bundestag|11th Bundestag which had been elected in January 1987]]. About 10 weeks later, on December 1990, the upcoming regular Bundestag election would be held as all-German election.

===Post-unification===
In the first post-reunification all-German elections, he was elected to the [[Bundestag]] from [[Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf|Berlin's Hellersdorf–Marzahn constituency]], and served there until 2000. He remained chairman of the PDS through 1998, and then from 1998 to 2000 served as chairman of the party's parliamentary group.

In 1992, it was alleged Gysi was an informer (''[[Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter]]'', IM) of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (the [[Stasi]]). He denied these allegations, and the matter was largely dropped due to his parliamentary immunity. In 1995, the Hamburg state court ruled in Gysi's favour in a complaint against Bärbel Bohley, Gysi's former client, who had accused him of Stasi collaboration. However, the allegations were raised again in 1996, and this time the Bundestag voted to revoke his immunity and proceed with an investigation.

In 1998, the Bundestag's immunity committee concluded that Gysi had been a collaborator with the Stasi from 1978 to 1989 under the name ''IM Notar'', and fined him 8,000 [[Deutsche Mark]]. However, both the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]] and his own PDS disputed the verdict, and Gysi appealed against the finding. Despite the affair, he retained his seat in the Bundestag in the 1998 elections.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}

In 2000, he resigned as chairman of the PDS's parliamentary group, but continued as an active member of the party. Following the victory of a "[[Red–red coalition|Red-red]]" ([[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]]-PDS) coalition in the [[2001 Berlin state election]], he was elected Senator for Economics, Labour, and Women's Issues and Deputy Mayor. He emphasised practical issues and advocated the reinstitution of some of what he sees as the better aspects of East Germany's system, such as extended child-care hours and a longer school day. After a scandal involving his use of airline "[[air miles|bonus miles]]" he had acquired on trips as a Bundestag member, he resigned on 31 July 2002 from the Berlin city government. The resignation was a blow to his public "can-do" image, but he has recovered from that to some extent in the wake of increasing public opposition to a number of new policies of the federal government, like the [[Hartz concept|Hartz reforms]] lowering unemployment benefits to the levels of mere subsistence welfare, which he strongly opposes.

In late-2004, he survived brain surgery and a heart attack. Formerly a heavy smoker, Gysi quit smoking as a result of surviving the heart attack.

[[File:Gregor Gysi.jpg|thumb|right|Gysi in 2005]]

Gysi remained the PDS's undisputed front man in many people's minds and continued to appear in public. In May 2005, when Federal Chancellor [[Gerhard Schröder]] planned to call an early election in September, many prominent PDS leaders including chair [[Lothar Bisky]] called on Gysi to front their campaign. He was a lead candidate of the PDS, and returned to the Bundestag as the member for [[Berlin-Treptow-Köpenick]]. The PDS fought the election in an alliance with the new western-based [[Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative|ElectoralAlternative Labour and Social Justice]] (WASG), under the new name [[Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)|Left Party.PDS]], with Gysi at times sharing a platform with WASG's [[Oskar Lafontaine]], former finance minister (in the first months of the [[First Schröder cabinet|Schröder government]]) and formerly party leader of the SPD. In June 2007, the PDS and WASG formally merged to form a united party called [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]].

In 2014, Gysi wrote his analysis on the contemporary Ukraine crisis in the ''[[Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs]]'', where he described similarities between the United States and Russia in their transgressions of international law. Gysi calls for "a new [[Ostpolitik]]" to prevent war and promote "democracy and freedom in Russia".<ref name="test">[http://www.israelcfr.com/documents/gregor-gysi.pdf Gregor Gysi. (2014). Europe and the Crisis in Ukraine: Is the International Community facing a new East-West Conflict?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617125317/http://www.israelcfr.com/documents/gregor-gysi.pdf |date=17 June 2015 }}, ''Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, VIII'' (3), 75–87.</ref> In 2015, Gysi was one of the leading supporters of Greece during the [[Greek government-debt crisis]]. He described the then German government as "blackmailers".

Gysi is an outspoken supporter of the [[Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly]], an organisation which campaigns for democratic reformation of the United Nations. This is due to his belief in the need for "functioning and democratically legitimate global politics."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://en.unpacampaign.org/statements/|title=Statements|last=Assembly|first=Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly|work=Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly|access-date=28 September 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>

In the [[2021 German federal elections]] Gysi once more won his constituency of [[Berlin-Treptow-Köpenick]]. While the Left came up short of the five percent [[electoral threshold]], his win, together with those of [[Gesine Lötzsch]] in [[Berlin-Lichtenberg]] and [[Sören Pellmann]] in [[Leipzig II]], qualified the party for list seats proportional to its vote. Under longstanding German law, a party can bypass the electoral threshold by winning three constituency seats.

== Media activities ==
Gysi is one of the most present politicians in German entertainment media. He regularly appears on political entertainment talk shows and is host of conversation programs himself.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bullion |first=Constanze von |date=2018-01-14 |title=Das knifflige Leben des Gregor Gysi |url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/gregor-gysi-das-knifflige-leben-des-gregor-gysi-1.3824836 |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=Süddeutsche.de |language=de}}</ref>

In 2019, Gregor Gysi stated to the Bundestag administration that he had received fees for almost 90 lectures, discussions and conversations. On average he has one appearance per week. He also earns money from jobs as lawyer and book publishing.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Holscher |first=Max |last2=Pauly |first2=Marcel |date=2019-08-16 |title=Bundestag: Das sind die Top-Verdiener unter den Abgeordneten |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundestag-das-sind-die-top-verdiener-unter-den-abgeordneten-a-1280928.html |access-date=2024-01-10 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}}</ref>

==Controversies==
===Stasi informant "IM Notar"===
Gysi continues to deny allegations, which first surfaced in 1992, that he was a [[Stasi]] [[Informal collaborator|informant (''"inoffizieller Mitarbeiter"'')]]. Invited in 2017 to spell out who, other than himself, "IM Notar" could possibly be, he replied that he had a strong suspicion, backed by a huge amount of information, adding pointedly that whenever the allegations that he himself was "IM Notar" have come before a court, he has "always won". In the absence of certain proof, he is not prepared to disclose the identity of the true "IM Notar".<ref name=GGuStasiimSpiegelGesp>{{cite journal|title=Feigheit, meinetwegen|url=https://magazin.spiegel.de/SP/2017/41/153650462/index.html|journal=Spiegel-Gespräch: Der Linkenpolitiker Gegor Gysi, 69, über sein Aufwachsen in der DDR-Elite, die Gründe für die Wut vieler Ostdeutsche und seine notorische Neigung zur Pointe.| publisher=[[Der Spiegel]]|volume=41/2017|page=48|author1=Stefan Berg|author2=Susanne Beyer|author3=René Pfister|date=7 October 2017|access-date=15 October 2017}}</ref>

==="Toiletgate" (2014)===
In November 2014, after being invited by [[Inge Höger]] and [[Annette Groth]], also members of The Left ({{lang|de|Die Linke}}) to talk with them in the [[Bundestag]], journalists [[Max Blumenthal]] and David Sheen learned that Gysi tried to cancel the meetings on the grounds that Blumenthal and Sheen held radical views<ref>{{Citation|last=Delfs|first=Arne|title=Israel Critics Chase Left Leader in German Parliament|newspaper=[[Bloomberg News]]|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-12/israel-critics-chase-left-leader-in-german-parliament.html|date=12 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="Zeit">[http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2014-11/gysi-israel-sheen-Blumenthal "Gysis ungebetene Gäste"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223173802/http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2014-11/gysi-israel-sheen-blumenthal |date=23 December 2015 }}, ''[[Die Zeit]]'', 11 November 2014.{{in lang|de}}</ref> from which he wished to dissociate the party.<ref name="Zeit"/>

Gysi fled, followed by the two men and other parliamentary members down a parliament corridor and into a bathroom in an incident referred to as "toiletgate". After this event, Blumenthal and Sheen were banned from ever setting foot in the Bundestag again.<ref name=Mikcis>{{cite news|last1=Mikcis|first1=David|title=Wild Thing: Max Blumenthal's Creepy Anti-Zionist Odyssey|url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/max-blumenthal-and-anti-zionists|access-date=21 May 2015|work=Tablet|date=10 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Weinthal|first=Benjamin|title=German politicians, media outraged over leftists' anti-Israel 'toiletgate'|newspaper=The [[Jerusalem Post]]|date=15 November 2014|url=https://www.jpost.com/In-Jerusalem/German-politicians-media-outraged-over-leftists-anti-Israel-Toiletgate-381883|access-date=21 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Israel critics chase Gysi into bathroom stall| newspaper=The Local|date=12 November 2014|url=http://www.thelocal.de/20141112/israel-critics-chase-gysi-into-bathroom-stall|access-date=18 June 2023}}</ref>

===Comments on Germans and Immigration (2015)===
In a 2015 interview, Gysi stated that "Every year more Germans die than are born. Fortunately, this is due to the fact that the Nazis do not reproduce particularly well and therefore, we depend on immigrants from other countries."<ref>{{Citation|last=Neurupinner Bilderbogen|title=Gregor Gysi zum Thema: Schöner leben ohne Nazis|newspaper=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9d87JjYHuk&feature=emb_title |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/s9d87JjYHuk| archive-date=12 December 2021 |url-status=live|date=11 May 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|first=Tina|last=Hildebrandt|title=Gregor Gysi: "Man muss sich auch beherssen"|newspaper=[[Die Zeit]]|url=https://www.zeit.de/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2F2015%2F37%2Fgregor-gysi-politik-gefuehle|date=10 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|first=Ibrahim|last=Naber|title=Zu viele Migranten wollen sich gar nicht integrieren|newspaper=[[Die Welt]]|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article155124393/Zu-viele-Migranten-wollen-sich-gar-nicht-integrieren.html|date=7 May 2016}}</ref> The comparison of all Germans to Nazis and the statement that it was good that Germans had a declining birth rate generated significant criticism from the public.

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,651100,00.html Will Germany Go Left of the Left?] by Markus Deggerich, ''[[Der Spiegel]]'', 25 September 2009
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011201057/http://www.linksfraktion.de/mdb_gysi.php Portrait at the website of the parliamentary group of the Left Party]
* [http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/GysiGregor/ Biography] at [[Deutsches Historisches Museum]]

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