Luigi Pantisano
Luigi Pantisano is a German politician from Die Linke. He has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2025 German federal election.
Life
Youth and education
Luigi Pantisano was born to Italian parents and grew up with his brother Alfonso Pantisano as a toddler in Calabria. After attending the Staufer Haupt-und Werkrealschule in Waiblingen and training as an architectural draftsman, Pantisano studied architecture at the Stuttgart Technology University of Applied Sciences and the Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2000 to 2005. He subsequently studied urban planning at the University of Stuttgart and graduated with a degree in engineering in 2008.Professional activities
From 2009 to 2014, he worked as a in Konstanz, and from 2011 to 2015, he was an academic assistant for research and teaching at the Urban Planning Institute of the University of Stuttgart. In 2015, he held various teaching positions at the Universities of Stuttgart and Konstanz, as well as at the Stuttgart University of Technology and Design.From 2015 to 2016, Pantisano was political director of the SÖS-Linke-PluS parliamentary group in the Stuttgart city council and, in 2017, a research assistant to Bernd Riexinger.
Political career
Luigi Pantisano's involvement in local politics began, according to his own statements, around 1999. In 2017, he joined the Left Party. In 2020, he ran for mayor of Konstanz. After being ahead in the first round of voting, he lost to incumbent in the second round.In 2021, Pantisano was deputy state spokesperson for. From 2022 to 2024, Pantisano was a member of the party's federal executive committee.
In the 2025 German federal election, Luigi Pantisano ran in the Stuttgart I constituency and entered the German Bundestag via second vote on the state list.
He is a member of the party's internal movement left.