Frank-Michael Bauer

Frank-Michael Bauer (born August 15, 1941 in Hamburg ; † July 24, 2006 ) was a German politician of the Rule of Law Offensive party .

Bauer originally belonged to the CDU . Following the decision of the Hamburg Constitutional Court , the state election in 1991 to explain due to defects in the candidate list of the CDU invalid, Bauer took part in 1993 in founding the INSTEAD party , he for in September of the same year in the District Assembly Bergedorf moved. After the STATT party lost the election in 1997, he left the district assembly.

In 2000, Bauer participated in the founding of Ronald Schill's Rule of Law Offensive Party (PRO) . In the 2001 general election , he succeeded in entering the Hamburg parliament , where he became the domestic political spokesman for his parliamentary group. He was also re-elected to the Bergedorf district assembly, where he became the group chairman of the PRO. After the new elections in February 2004, he lost both parliamentary seats and resigned from the PRO. At the end of 2004 he hit the headlines again in Hamburg when he publicly announced his support for the WASG and announced that he wanted to work there, which was rejected by the latter.

While he was a member of parliament, Bauer repeatedly spoke out in favor of nationwide video surveillance of public spaces. In 2003, for example, he stated: “In any case, a good 80 percent of the public space is already monitored, and that's a good thing. We already have the Orwellian state, I see that positively. "