Martin Rücker

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Martin Rücker (born July 17, 1980 in Stuttgart ) is a German journalist and consumer rights activist . Since April 2017 he has been managing director of the consumer organization foodwatch in Germany.

Life

Rücker studied journalism at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences (today Hanover University ) and then worked as a freelance journalist for the German Press Agency and various radio stations , among others . He was an editor at the Neue Presse daily in Hanover for two years before moving to Berlin at the beginning of 2007 and working as a capital correspondent for a number of regional newspapers , including the Passauer Neue Presse , the Ruhr Nachrichten and the Schweriner Volkszeitung . Martin Rücker has been Head of Press and Public Relations at foodwatch since 2009. In November 2016, the organization announced that Martin Rücker would succeed Thilo Bode as managing director of foodwatch Germany. He took up this position on April 1, 2017.

Rücker was next to u. a. Eva-Maria Lemke member of the jury of the Goldenen Zaunpfahls , a negative prize for "absurd gender marketing" initiated by Anke Domscheit-Berg .

Works

  • European Integration, Unplugged ( Foreign Policy Magazine, 2009; English)
  • Patronizing liberal ( The European , 2014)
  • The consumer is nowhere near as mature as claimed - 12 theses on consumer policy ( Die Welt , 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Change in leadership at foodwatch in Germany: Martin Rücker succeeds Thilo Bode as managing director - the aim is to establish a European consumer organization. In: foodwatch.org. April 3, 2017, Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Short biography of Martin Rücker. (PDF; 66 kB) In: foodwatch.org. November 7, 2016, accessed April 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Martin Rücker Kressköpfe. In: kress.de. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Personnel changes at foodwatch as of April 1st, 2017. In: foodwatch.org. November 7, 2016, accessed April 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Consumer organization: Thilo Bode is now Foodwatch World Chef. In: faz.net. November 7, 2016, accessed April 5, 2017 .
  6. ^ Jury of the Golden Fence Post 2019. In: goldener-zaunpfahl.de. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Martin Rücker: European Integration, Unplugged. In: foreignpolicy.com. October 26, 2009, accessed April 5, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Martin Rücker: The wrong claim by the patronizing NGOs. In: theeuropean.de. December 11, 2014, accessed April 5, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Martin Rücker: Making consumers brave and mature. In: welt.de. January 17, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rücker, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and consumer rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart