Helin Evrim Sommer

Helin Evrim Sommer (née Evrim Baba; born 7 February 1985) is a German politician, a former member of the Berlin House of Representatives and of the German Bundestag for the state of Berlin.

Early life and education Sommer was born as Hêlîn Evrim Baba in Varto, Turkey. Her Kurdish name Hêlîn was not allowed at the time in Turkey, so her parents named her Evrim, which translates into evolution in Turkish.

Political career Sommer joined the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in 1997. Two years later she was elected to the Berlin state parliament (Abgeordnetenhaus), where she represented the borough of Lichtenberg until 2016. She was a member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, a delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the deputy chair of the German–Transcaucasian parliamentary co-operation group. In the Parliamentarian Election of 2021 she was a candidate, but was not elected when her party failed to meet the electoral threshold. In May 2022 she resigned from Die Linke also because of the pro-Russian views several The Linke politicians had, regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Personal life She grew up in Schöneberg in the west, but later settled into Lichtenberg in the east . In 2009 she married the Holocaust historian Robert Sommer with whom she has one child.