Markus Söder
 Markus Söder    (politician) | ||||||||||
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| Born | 5 January 1967 | |||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||
| Founder of | Bavaria/COVID-19 Economic Advisory Council | |||||||||
| Member of | American Council on Germany/Young Leaders/2001, Bavaria/COVID-19 Economic Advisory Council, Hanns Seidel Foundation | |||||||||
Bavarian politician first out with hard lockdowns in 2020.
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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.
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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 predicts 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” "[3]
According to him, the domestic security agency BfV has a central task to play here.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Munich Security Conference/2017 | 17 February 2017 | 19 February 2017 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 53rd Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2019 | 15 February 2019 | 17 February 2019 | Germany 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/2020 | 14 February 2020 | 16 February 2020 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers." |
| Munich Security Conference/2022 | 18 February 2022 | 20 February 2022 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here |
| Munich Security Conference/2023 | 17 February 2023 | 19 February 2023 | Germany 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/2024 | 16 February 2024 | 18 February 2024 | Germany 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/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World 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. |
References
- ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/politik/deutschland/article107047775/Am-Montag-soll-auch-Merkels-Liste-stehen.html
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/markus.soder.75/posts/3428959153844404/
- ↑ https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article224044124/Corona-und-Sicherheit-Markus-Soeder-warnt-vor-einer-Corona-RAF.html
