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Andrej Hunko
Andrej Konstantin Hunko (born 29 September 1963) is a German politician. He has been a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2025.
Hunko is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) since 2010. He has been deputy chairman of the Unified European Left parliamentary group since 2015 and deputy chairman of the Left parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2020.
Andrej Hunko left The Left and joined the new party Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht in 2023.
Hunko was born in Munich and grew up in Aachen, where he graduated from the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in 1983 and did his alternative civilian service with the Federation of Welfare Associations in Germany (Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband). He is of Ukrainian descent. His grandfather fought for the Ukrainian National Army.
In 1985, he began studying medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg in southern Germany, which he terminated without graduating in 1991. In an interview in 2018, he said that this was "a reaction in 1991 to the Iraq war", "a not very mature reaction, as I find in retrospect". Afterwards, he held various jobs in Freiburg, Aachen, and Berlin, including truck driver, printer, nurse and journalist. From 1999 to 2004, he completed professional training as a media designer and worked as a media designer and printer. From 2007 to 2009 he was an employee of MEP Tobias Pflüger.
Since 2009, he has been a member of the German Bundestag for the party The Left. He was re-elected in 2013 and in 2017. His electoral constituency is Aachen.
Hunko ran as candidate for BSW North-Rhine Westplatina at 2025 German Federal election. The BSW received less than 5 percent and did not enter the Bundestag.
In his first years as a member of the Bundestag, one of Hunko's main areas of work was the crisis policy of the EU member states and the EU itself. In his opinion, austerity measures imposed on the member states in crisis threatened democracy and social rights and did not solve the crisis but rather exacerbated it. For the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, he drafted a report on this subject entitled "Austerity measures – a danger for democracy and social rights". The accompanying resolution was adopted by a large majority. In the Bundestag, he repeatedly criticized German and European crisis policy.
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Andrej Hunko
Andrej Konstantin Hunko (born 29 September 1963) is a German politician. He has been a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2025.
Hunko is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) since 2010. He has been deputy chairman of the Unified European Left parliamentary group since 2015 and deputy chairman of the Left parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2020.
Andrej Hunko left The Left and joined the new party Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht in 2023.
Hunko was born in Munich and grew up in Aachen, where he graduated from the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in 1983 and did his alternative civilian service with the Federation of Welfare Associations in Germany (Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband). He is of Ukrainian descent. His grandfather fought for the Ukrainian National Army.
In 1985, he began studying medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg in southern Germany, which he terminated without graduating in 1991. In an interview in 2018, he said that this was "a reaction in 1991 to the Iraq war", "a not very mature reaction, as I find in retrospect". Afterwards, he held various jobs in Freiburg, Aachen, and Berlin, including truck driver, printer, nurse and journalist. From 1999 to 2004, he completed professional training as a media designer and worked as a media designer and printer. From 2007 to 2009 he was an employee of MEP Tobias Pflüger.
Since 2009, he has been a member of the German Bundestag for the party The Left. He was re-elected in 2013 and in 2017. His electoral constituency is Aachen.
Hunko ran as candidate for BSW North-Rhine Westplatina at 2025 German Federal election. The BSW received less than 5 percent and did not enter the Bundestag.
In his first years as a member of the Bundestag, one of Hunko's main areas of work was the crisis policy of the EU member states and the EU itself. In his opinion, austerity measures imposed on the member states in crisis threatened democracy and social rights and did not solve the crisis but rather exacerbated it. For the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, he drafted a report on this subject entitled "Austerity measures – a danger for democracy and social rights". The accompanying resolution was adopted by a large majority. In the Bundestag, he repeatedly criticized German and European crisis policy.