Christoph Maier (politician, 1984)

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Christoph Maier (born August 16, 1984 in Schwabmünchen ) is a German lawyer and politician of the AfD . He has been a member of the Bavarian State Parliament since 2018 .

Life

Maier studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He is a member of the Munich fraternity Sudetia , according to Augsburger Allgemeine, an environment strictly right-wing national fraternities. Until 2015 he worked in the regional arbitration court of the AfD. In May 2016 he passed the second state examination. He works as a lawyer in Bavaria.

Maier is a member of the Bavarian AfD . In 2016 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Lord Mayor of Memmingen. In the Bavarian state elections in 2018 , he ran as a constituency member in the Memmingen district on list position 5 of the AfD in Swabia and moved into the state parliament. There Maier is Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Constitution, Law, Parliamentary Questions and Integration. After the AfD moved into the state parliament, he was elected as parliamentary director of his group. Maier is single and lives in Memmingen .

The media describe Maier as belonging to the völkisch-nationalist wing of the party around Björn Höcke . During Angela Merkel's visit to Ottobeuren near Memmingen, Maier took part in the demonstration critical of Merkel in the vicinity of well-known right-wing and conservative fraternities and supporters of the right-wing neo-Nazi small party Der III. Way . Maier allowed them to participate in the AfD demonstration. Maier commissioned Johannes Huber, a member of the Bundestag, who also belongs to the right wing of the party, to speak in Ottobeuren .

At a meeting of the “wing” on May 4, 2019 in Greding, Upper Bavaria, Maier sang the first stanza of the Deutschlandlied on the podium with a group of around 15 people, which is controversial due to its use during the Nazi era . In an interview with the Memminger Zeitung he described the singing of the first verse of the Deutschlandlied as "politically unwise but basically not reprehensible".

On January 23, 2019, Maier disrupted a memorial event for the victims of National Socialism in the Bavarian state parliament by demonstratively leaving the plenum together with most of his parliamentary group colleagues during the speech of the President of the Israelite Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, Charlotte Knobloch , after the AfD was right-wing extremist had designated.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.kurierverlag.de/memmingen/jurist-christoph-maier-ob-kandidat-vorektiven-6537745.html
  2. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk.de: AfD in Bavaria, The Law and Order Fraction
  3. ^ Christoph Maier - Alternative for Germany. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Member of Parliament Maier, Christoph | Bavarian State Parliament. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  5. ^ Right-wing extremist party “III. Weg “active in the region. November 24, 2018, accessed February 22, 2019 .
  6. ^ WORLD: First verse of the Deutschlandlied at AfD meetings with Björn Höcke . May 5, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed September 17, 2019]).
  7. ^ Michael Böhm, Johann Stoll: Deutschlandlied: AfD deputy Maier justifies himself. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
  8. ^ Scandal in the state parliament: AfD members leave memorial service for Nazi victims , Augsburger Allgemeine , January 23, 2019
  9. ↑ Sebastian Lipp: AfD disrupts the memory of victims of National Socialism. In: Allgäu ⇏ far right. January 24, 2019, accessed on September 17, 2019 (German).
  10. ^ ZEIT ONLINE: Bavarian State Parliament: AfD MPs leave memorial service for Nazi victims . In: The time . January 23, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on September 17, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwabmünchen