Lothar Maier

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Lothar Maier (born June 19, 1944 in Wolfach ) is a German scientist and politician . From 1982 to 2009 he was a professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences . From July 2015 to March 2017 he was spokesman for the Baden-Württemberg State Association of Alternative for Germany (AfD) . From September 2014 to 2018 he was also one of the two spokespersons for the AfD in Stuttgart .

life and career

Maier was born in Wolfach in Baden. After graduating from the Free Waldorf School in Stuttgart-Uhlandshöhe in 1965, he did his military service in Landsberg am Lech (Army) from 1965 to 1967 . Lothar Maier studied political science, history and sociology in Tübingen and Madrid from 1973 to 1977 . After receiving his doctorate ( Dr. rer. Soc. ) On the forms and conditions of the Spanish opposition in the authoritarian state in 1977, he was assistant to the managing director of the Baden-Württemberg consumer center in Stuttgart . From 1979 to 1982 he was managing director of the consumer center in Hamburg. From 1982 until his retirement in 2009 he was a professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW) for consumer policy and methods of consumer work.

In 1990 he was appointed to the presidential committee of the “DIN Consumer Council”, of which he was Chairman in 2002 until he left the Consumer Council in June 2011. During the same period he was a member of the DIN presidium. He was also a member of the German standardization strategy steering group for the development of the German standardization strategy (DNS) and on the advisory board of NA 173 Standards Committee Basics of Standardization Work (NAGLN). He also held other honorary positions.

Maier was also active on a European and international level: in the early 1990s, as President of the CCC (Conceil Consultatif des Consomateurs) of the EU Commission, he was instrumental in founding the ANEC, the European consumer representation in standardization He was a representative from 2002 to mid-2011. He was President of ANEC from 2007 to 2011.

In addition, Maier was involved in development projects in more than a dozen, mainly non-European countries . Most recently from 2007 to 2009 as an advisor to the Indian Ministry of Consumer Protection. He was also a member of the Stuttgart City Council from 2014 to 2017. Maier has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 .

Maier is single and lives in Stuttgart.

politics

From 1985 to 2005 he was a member of the SPD . He was a founding member of the Stuttgart District Association of Alternative for Germany and its first chairman. On July 25, 2015, at the state party conference of the AfD in Pforzheim, he was elected together with Jörg Meuthen and Bernd Grimmer as one of the three equal speakers of the AfD in Baden-Württemberg . At the state party conference of the AfD in early 2017 in Sulz am Neckar , he did not run again. His successors were Marc Jongen and Ralf Özkara . From 2014 to February 2018 he was a councilor of the AfD in the municipal council of the state capital Stuttgart and its parliamentary group spokesman. In March 2018 he resigned from this mandate. He ran for the AfD as a direct candidate in the 2017 federal election in the Stuttgart II constituency, but only achieved 4th place after the candidates from the CDU, SPD and Greens. However, he made it into the Bundestag in 2017 via the AfD state list.

Fonts (selection)

  • Consumer policy in the Federal Republic of Germany , Consumers Working Group, Bonn 1984.
  • with Matthias Beimel: Optimization of instructions for use , Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Bremerhaven 1986, ISBN 3-88314-512-2 .
  • Consumer Policy , Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Dept. Polit. Education, Bonn 1987.

Web links

Commons : Lothar Maier  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved January 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b website Lothar Maier. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Development projects: Lothar Maier. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ " https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/bw/stuttgart/afd-in-stuttgart-verliert-fraktionsstatus/-/id=1592/did=21286400/nid=1592/1v8ervs/index.html " SWR, accessed on August 5, 2018; 11.52 a.m.
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientists and politicians (SPD, AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfach