Cem Ince

Cem Hamit Ince (born 9 December 1993) is a German politician and member of the Bundestag.^[1] A member of The Left, he has represented Lower Saxony since 2025.

Cem Ince
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 2025
Constituency	Lower Saxony
Personal details
Born	(1993-12-09) 9 December 1993 (age 31) Salzgitter, Germany
Political party	The Left

Ince was born on 9 December 1993 in Salzgitter and is of Kurdish origin.^[1][2] His grandfather moved from Eastern Anatolia to Salzgitter in the late 1960s as a guest worker and worked in the blast furnaces of Salzgitter AG.^[2][3] Ince's father also did his apprenticeship and worked at Salzgitter AG before moving to the Volkswagen factory in Salzgitter.^[2][3] His grandfather and father were also trade unionists.^[2]

Ince graduated from Kranich-Gymnasium Salzgitter in 2012 and then trained to be electronics technician at VW Salzgitter from 2012 to 2015.^[1] He also studied business administration and software development at VW Salzgitter.^[1] He is an IG Metall member and has been a shop steward at VW Salzgitter since 2012.^[1][2] He was the youth and trainee representative at VW Salzgitter from 2014 to 2016 and the chair youth and trainee representative from 2016 to 2020.^[1][2] He has been a member of the IG Metall shop steward council at VW Salzgitter since 2022.^[1]

Ince has been chairman of The Left's branch in Salzgitter since 2021.^[1] He was The Left's candidate in Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel (constituency 49) at the 2025 federal election but was not elected.^[4][5] He was however elected to the Bundestag on The Left's state list in Lower Saxony.^[6]