What is Petra Zais?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Petra Zais | image = MJK21211 Petra Zais.jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Zais in 2016 | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = 22 March 1957 | birth_place = [[Breitenbrunn, Saxony|Breitenbrunn]], [[East Germany]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2021|10|07|1957|03|22}} | death_place = | nationality = German | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | party = [[Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)|PDS]] <br/> [[Alliance 90/The Greens]] | office = Member of the [[Landtag of Saxony]] | term_start = 2014 | term_end = 2019 | office2 = Member of the Stadtrat of [[Chemnitz]] | term_start2 = 1992 | term_end2 = 1999 | term_start3 = 2009 | term_end3 = 2014 }} '''Petra Zais''' (22 March 1957 – 7 October 2021) was a German politician.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=8 October 2021|title=Sächsische Grünenpolitikerin gestorben|trans-title= |url=https://www.saechsische.de/politik/parteien/die-gruenen/saechsische-gruenenpolitikerin-gestorben-5541649.html|language=German|work=[[Sächsische Zeitung]]|location= |access-date=18 October 2021}}</ref> Zais was a member of the [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]] from 1977 to 1990. She was a member Stadtrat of [[Chemnitz]] from 1992 to 1999. She rejoined the Stadtrat in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.petra-zais.de/petra-zais/|title=Petra Zais|work=Petra Zais|language=German|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022060958/http://www.petra-zais.de/petra-zais/|archivedate=22 October 2019}}</ref> In 2001, she unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Chemnitz. In [[2009 German federal election|2009]] and [[2013 German federal election|2013]], she unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the [[Bundestag]]. In 2014, she was elected to the [[Landtag of Saxony]] for the Greens.<ref>{{cite web|url