Sascha Bilay

Sascha Bilay
Member of the Landtag of Thuringia
In office 2019–2024
Personal details
Born	(1979-04-12) April 12, 1979 (age 45) Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany (then East Germany)
Political party	Die Linke (since 2007)
Other political affiliations	PDS (until 2007)
Residence	Eisenach

Sascha Bilay (born 12 April 1979) is a German politician from The Left. He was a member of the Landtag of Thuringia from 2019 to 2024.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1998, Sascha Bilay studied political science, sociology and Eastern European history at the University of Jena until 2005. In addition, he obtained a degree in administrative management in 2010. From 2004 to 2012, he was a research assistant for local politics and administrative reform in the Thuringian parliamentary group of the Left Party. From 2012 to 2019, Bilay was head of the office of the then mayor of Eisenach, Katja Wolf (then Die Linke).[1]

Bilay is married, has one child and lives in Eisenach.[1]

Political career

Bilay joined the former PDS in 1996. He represented his party on the city council of Ilmenau from 1999 to 2007 and ran for mayor in 2006.[2] In 2012 and 2024 he applied to be district administrator of the Wartburg district,[3][4] where he was also a member of the district council from 2021 to 2024.[5]

In the 2019 Thuringian state election, he received a state parliament mandate via his party's state list,[1] but failed to win re-election in the following the 2024 Thuringian state election.[6]

In September 2024, Bilay was elected chairman of the Gotha district association of Die Linke.[7] He is also running for a seat in the Gotha – Ilm-Kreis constituency in the 2025 German federal election.[8]

External links

• Short biography on the website of the Thuringian State Parliament at the Wayback Machine (archived September 19, 2024)
• Kurzbiografie bei Die Linke Wartburgkreis
• Sascha Bilay bei abgeordnetenwatch.de

References

1. Sascha Bilay at the Wayback Machine (archived September 19, 2024)
2. "Wahlen in Thüringen, Bürgermeisterwahl 2006 in Thüringen, Ilmenau". Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
3. "Wahlen in Thüringen, Wahl der Landräte und Oberbürgermeister der kreisfreien Städte 2012, Wartburgkreis". Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
4. "Wahlen in Thüringen, Wahl der Landräte und Oberbürgermeister der kreisfreien Städte 2024, Wartburgkreis". Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
5. Tobias Merk (2025-01-02). "Linke: Sascha Bilay verlässt den Kreistag, Nachfolger steht fest". insuedthueringen.de. Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
6. "Landtagswahl Thüringen: Diese Abgeordneten wurden nicht wiedergewählt". mdr.de (in German). Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. 2024-09-02. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
7. "Linke Gotha mit neuem Vorstand". gotha-aktuell.info. 2024-09-23. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
8. "Die Direktkandidaten im Bundestagswahlkreis Gotha – Ilm-Kreis". mdr.de. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. 2025-01-11. Retrieved 2025-01-12.