Benedikt Mayer

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Benedikt Mayer (born November 11, 1953 in Racine , Wisconsin , United States ) is a German politician . From 2011 to 2018 he was the federal treasurer of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party .

Life

Benedikt Mayer was born in the United States to an American and a German and grew up bilingually in Munich- Giesing . Mayer studied English and history to become a teacher and then trained in tax and became self-employed. Today he lives with his family in Emmering .

Political career

In 1990 Benedikt Mayer became a member of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party . From 2000 to 2011 Mayer was state treasurer of the Bavarian Greens and managing director of the Bavarian State Association. He has been a member of the Ebersberg district council since the local elections in Bavaria in 2002 . In the federal election campaigns in 2005 and 2009, he was on the financial support committee . In 2008 he was a candidate for the state elections in Bavaria . At the federal party conference in November 2011 in Kiel, he was elected as the successor to Dietmar Strehl with 96% of the federal treasurer in the federal executive committee. In 2013 and 2015 he was confirmed in this office at the federal delegate conferences with 91.8% and 96.8% respectively. In January 2018 he was re-elected with 94.03% of the vote. In August 2018 he announced that he would resign from the Federal Delegates Conference in November 2018 for health reasons. Marc Urbatsch was elected as his successor .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biography of Benedikt Mayer ( memento from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the Ebersberg district assembly site, accessed on October 20, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c Profile of Benedikt Mayer on the website of the Federal Party of the Greens, accessed on October 20, 2013.
  3. ↑ Bavarian Yearbook 2013 . Walter de Gruyter, 2012. ISBN 978-3-110-27812-5 (p. 489)
  4. ↑ Bavarian Yearbook 2010 . Walter de Gruyter, 2009. ISBN 978-3-598-44082-3 (p. 483)
  5. ↑ Profile of Benedikt Mayer on parliamentwatch.de , accessed on October 20, 2013.
  6. ↑ BDK: Benedikt Mayer new federal treasurer ( memento from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on gruene-bayern.de from November 28, 2011.
  7. ^ Party convention: Simone Peter and Cem Özdemir at the top of the Greens - board complete . In: Evening newspaper from October 19, 2013.
  8. ↑ gruene.de: Federal executive board confirmed, new party council elected , accessed on December 17, 2015.
  9. ↑ Green generation change: party congress elects new board . January 27, 2018 ( gruene.de [accessed January 30, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Racine , Wisconsin , United States