Tobias Pflüger (born 1 February 1965) is a German politician of The Left serving as one of six deputy leaders of the party since 2014. From 2017 to 2021 he was a member of the Bundestag, and from 2004 to 2009 a member of the European Parliament.
Life and career
Pflüger's father was a pastor and his mother a catechist. He grew up in Möglingen, Calw, and Nagold, where he graduated from the Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium in 1985. He then studied political science and empirical cultural studies at the University of Tübingen.
Pflüger has been active in the peace movement since the 1980s. At the age of 16, he joined The Greens. From 1989 to 1993, he was research assistant to Christine Mussler-Frohne, a Green member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, specialising in the anti-nuclear movement, energy, and peace policy. The same year, he became a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly. He joined The Left in May 2008. In May 2010, he became a member of the party executive; in 2014, he was elected co-deputy chairman of the party.