Members of Germany’s ailing hard-left Die Linke (The Left) chose new leaders on Saturday as the party hopes for a revival after a series of electoral defeats and a bruising split with a former party doyenne that hollowed out the parliamentary caucus. The current leaders, Janine Wissler and Martin Schirdewan, are stepping down from the party leadership following the losses. The journalist Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken, a former member of Germany’s parliament, were chosen to replace them at the party conference in the eastern city of Halle on Saturday. Die Linke was thrown into crisis after …