GermanySahra Wagenknecht is a German politician who left The Left and founded the BSW party, originally named after her, in January 2024. She pairs left-wing economic policies with limits on migration and announced in November 2025 that she would step down as leader.
In the 12 Axes register, Sahra Wagenknecht leans hardest on Militarist – Pacifist: Pacifist 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.
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Where Sahra Wagenknecht sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Centrist
No distinct stance on federal structure
Representative Democracy
Bundestag member from 2009 to 2025
Centrist
Opposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates
Anti-Interventionist
Called for NATO's dissolution in 2017; Eurosceptic
Pacifist
Opposes arms for Ukraine; urges negotiations
Assimilationist
Seeks tighter limits on immigration and asylum
Social Democratic
Supports a "market economy without capitalism"
Regulationism
Backs financial regulation and a higher minimum wage
Limited Trade
Party programme calls for deglobalisation
Agnostic
Non-religious; no religious agenda in her politics
Conservative
Voted against 2024 law easing legal gender change
Neutral
No distinct position on technology
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Militarist – Pacifist
On Militarist – Pacifist, Sahra Wagenknecht is at Pacifist 83%. The register median is balanced 50%.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, Sahra Wagenknecht is at Democratic 68%, almost the register median of Democratic 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · sahra-wagenknecht.de
Portrait: Original: Superbass;, derivative work by Nagae Iku, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
