Holger Thuss

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Holger Thuß (born August 12, 1969 in Jena ) is a German lobbyist and publisher. He is the president and founder of the European Institute for Climate & Energy e. V. (EIKE) and publisher of TvR Medienverlag . Both organizations are part of the institutional embedding of German climate skepticism .

From 1995 to 1996, Thuss was the deputy federal chairman of the Ring of Christian Democratic Students , and he was also active as a CDU politician in local politics. His dissertation at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena Freedom and Order. The constitutional party in the Thuringian states from 1848 to 1850 deals with the "rise of the parliamentary center-right formations" and appeared in 2005.

In 2004, Thuss founded the European branch of the American lobby organization CFACT , which was also financed by the latter, but has since been dissolved, according to Thuss. In 2007 he then founded EIKE; According to Thuss, the idea for this came from CFACT. He is also listed as an "expert" by the Heartland Institute , a climate denial organization financed by the fossil fuel industry , to which EIKE has financial links and which holds joint conferences with EIKE.

In the run-up to an EIKE 2018 conference, Thuss physically attacked reporter Achim Pollmeier from the TV magazine Monitor of ARD in front of the camera and attacked him verbally: Pollmeier was not a journalist , but an agitator . In 2019, at an EIKE conference in Munich, he declared that the climate protests had meanwhile reached " terrorist proportions".

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  1. ↑ a b Holger Thuss: Freedom and order: the constitutional party in the Thuringian states from 1848 to 1850. , June 30, 2005 ( urn : nbn: de: gbv: 27-dbt-005636-2 , accessed on 21. September 2019).
  2. ↑ Achim Brunnengräber : Climate skeptics in Germany and their fight against the energy transition. In: FFU-report year 2013. Ed .: Research Center for Environmental Policy, Free University Berlin , March 26, 2013, p. 22 and 27 (PDF p. 28 and 33).
  3. ↑ GND 106564891X
  4. ↑ Achim Brunnengräber : Climate skeptics in Germany and their fight against the energy transition. In: FFU-report year 2013. Ed .: Research Center for Environmental Policy, Free University Berlin , March 26, 2013, p. 35 (PDF p. 41).
  5. ↑ Archives for Christian Democratic Politics (ed.): Findbuch 04–006 Ring Christian Democratic Students. 2016, accessed September 22, 2019.
  6. ↑ Lena Puttfarcken: The scene of the "climate deniers" . In: SWR2 , March 10, 2020. Accessed March 10, 2020.
  7. ↑ Jeanne Rubner : "We don't need climate researchers". In: sueddeutsche.de , March 31, 2010, accessed on September 21, 2019.
  8. ↑ 2004 as the founding year received by Greenpeace : Climate skeptics on propaganda tour. . as well as CFACT : CFACT Europe.
  9. ↑ a b Germany’s AfD turns on Greta Thunberg as it embraces climate denial . In: The Guardian , May 14, 2019. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  10. ↑ The Assistants of Doubt . In: Die Zeit , November 25, 2010. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  11. ↑ Marc Dimitriu: TV magazine Monitor: ARD journalist attacked in front of the camera. In: merkur.de , December 7, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2019.
  12. ↑ Katarina Huth, Jean Peters, Jonas Seufert: The Heartland Lobby . In: Correctiv , February 4, 2020. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
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SURNAME Thuss, Holger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thuss, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lobbyist, publisher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena