Markus Söder

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Person.png Markus Söder  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Markus söder2.jpg
Born5 January 1967
NationalityGerman
Founder ofBavaria/COVID-19 Economic Advisory Council
Member ofAmerican Council on Germany/Young Leaders/2001, Bavaria/COVID-19 Economic Advisory Council, Hanns Seidel Foundation

Employment.png Minister President of Bavaria

In office
16 March 2018 - Present

Markus Söder is a German politician serving as Minister President of Bavaria since 2018. He has been one of the foremost proponents of a hard lockdown and other measures in the Covid-19 situation.

Background, education and military service

After graduating from the Gymnasium in 1986, he served his military service from 1986 to 1987. He then studied law at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg from 1987 with a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. He passed his first state examination in 1991 and was a research assistant at the department of constitutional, administrative and church law at the same university. He worked as a trainee and then as an editor with Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich from 1992 to 1994, when he was elected to the Bavarian Parliament and became a full-time politician.

Söder has been a member of the Landtag, the state parliament of Bavaria, since 1994. From 2003 to 2007 he was secretary general of the CSU party; in this capacity, he worked closely with then Minister-President and party chairman Edmund Stoiber. During his time in office, he was also part of the CDU/CSU team in the negotiations with the SPD on a coalition agreement following the 2005 federal elections[1], which paved the way to the formation of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s first government.

As finance minister in the state government of Minister-President Horst Seehofer in the period 2011-18, Söder was also one of the state’s representatives at the Bundesrat, where he served on the Finance Committee.

Minister-President of Bavaria

In March 2018, lawmakers formally elected Söder as new Minister-President to replace Horst Seehofer, who had become German interior minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new cabinet.

Covid-lockdown

He and his cabinet were one of the first state governments to decide to impose a "lockdown" to contain the virus.

Söder warns of a "Corona-RAF"

"Evil thoughts turn into evil words and at some point also evil deeds,warned Söder." That is why we not only have to improve the security measures for democratic institutions in Germany, but also fundamentally look at the sect-like movement of 'lateral thinkers' and other comparable groups.

"There is a risk that “a corona mob or a type of corona-RAF could form in Germany from the environment of the AfD, that could become increasingly aggressive and even violent” "[2]

According to him, the domestic security agency BfV has a central task to play here.


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Munich Security Conference/201717 February 201719 February 2017Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/201812 February 201814 February 2018Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 54th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/201915 February 201917 February 2019Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/202014 February 202016 February 2020Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers."
Munich Security Conference/202218 February 202220 February 2022Germany
Munich
Bavaria
Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here
Munich Security Conference/202317 February 202319 February 2023Germany
Munich
Bavaria
Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere.
Munich Security Conference/202416 February 202418 February 2024Germany
Munich
Bavaria
Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects
WEF/Annual Meeting/202021 January 202024 January 2020World Economic Forum
Switzerland
This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
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