Martin Mayer (politician)

Martin Mayer (born October 13, 1941 in Siegertsbrunn , Munich district , Upper Bavaria ; † November 30, 2017 in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn ) was a German politician ( CSU ). From December 20, 1990 to October 18, 2005, he was a member of the German Bundestag for four terms .

education and profession

Mayer was born as the son of a farming couple. After attending secondary school, he first trained as a farmer. Mayer graduated from high school on the second educational path . A degree in agriculture in Weihenstephan , Bonn and Paris was followed by a doctorate in 1969 . Between 1966 and 1971 Mayer was a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich in Freising-Weihenstephan, among other things as an expert for the European Development Fund on the Ivory Coast. 1971 followed a traineeship in Munich and Fürth with state exams for the higher agricultural service including teaching. He then worked as an agricultural councilor at the State Institute for Business Administration and Agricultural Structure. In 1973 he became a state parliament clerk in the Bavarian Ministry of Agriculture.

family

Martin Mayer was married and has four children. His wife is the mayor of the Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn community .

Political activities

Mayer had been a member of the CSU since 1967 and was an honorary member of the district council of the Munich district from 1972 to 1993.

As a representative of his home constituency Munich-Land , he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1978 to 1990, where he was a member of the committees for regional development and environmental issues as well as for food and agriculture.

In the federal election in 1990 he won the direct mandate for the CSU in the Munich-Land constituency. Mayer was a member of the German Bundestag until 2005 . Mayer was the spokesman for the CSU regional group in the German Bundestag for education, research, media, culture and telecommunications, as well as being a rapporteur for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group for information and communication services. He was also:

• 1991 to 2005: Member of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment
• Deputy member of the Committee for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth
• 1991 to 1998: Member of the Committee for European Policy of the German Bundestag
• 1995 to 1998: Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Media in Business and Society, Germany's Way into the Information Society
• 2003 to 2005: Member of the study committee on ethics and law in modern media

author

After leaving the German Bundestag, in 2007 he wrote the book “Die Andere Pilfahrt”. In it he reports on the pilgrimage on foot from his home town of Siegertsbrunn near Munich to Assisi in Italy and the subsequent intellectual debate about the extent to which the churches should interfere in politics. Other books are: “Splitter der Geschichte” (2010), in which he tells the stories of people in extraordinary situations such as war, displacement and flight, and “Letter to my Bishop” (2013), where he talks about the relationship between bishops and Reflects on politics and explores Christian beliefs and images of God.

Engagements

Martin Mayer was a member of the board of trustees of the following Max Planck Institutes :

• Astrophysics and extraterrestrial physics in Garching
• Quantum Optics in Garching (under the direction of Nobel Prize winner Theodor W. Hänsch )
• Biochemistry and neurobiology in Martinsried

Mayer had been a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. since 1962. Agilolfia Freising in the CV .

Awards

2002: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• "What's next with the Internet and multimedia?" ( Memento from February 9, 1999 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry of the CSU local association on Facebook , accessed on November 30, 2017