Bavaria

Bavaria (German State)
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Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a landlocked state (Land) in the south-east of Germany. With an area of 70,550.19 square kilometres (27,239.58 sq mi), Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany. With 13 million inhabitants, it is second in population only to North Rhine-Westphalia. Bavaria's main cities are Munich (its capital and largest city and also the third largest city in Germany), Nuremberg, and Augsburg.

Bavaria has a unique culture, largely because of the state's large Catholic plurality and conservative traditions. The state also has the second largest economy among the German states by GDP figures, giving it a status as a rather wealthy German region.

The Minister President of Bavaria has often had significant deep state connections.

The capital, Munich, was a hub for Western intelligence services during the Cold War.

In 2020, the state became known for its particularly draconian Covid-19 lockdown.

Politics

Bavaria has a multiparty system dominated by the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), which has won every election since 1945, The Greens, which became the second biggest political party in the 2018 parliament elections and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), which dominates in Munich. Thus far Wilhelm Hoegner has been the only SPD candidate to ever become Minister-President; notable successors in office include multi-term Federal Minister Franz Josef Strauss, a key figure among West German conservatives during the Cold War years, and Edmund Stoiber, who both failed with their bids for Chancellorship. The German Greens and the center-right Free Voters have been represented in the state parliament since 1986 and 2008 respectively.

In the 2003 elections the CSU won a ⅔ supermajority – something no party had ever achieved in postwar Germany. However, in the subsequent 2008 elections the CSU lost the absolute majority for the first time in 46 years.

Arbitrary arrest and human rights

In July 2017, Bavaria's parliament enacted a new revision of the "Gefährdergesetz", allowing the authorities to imprison a person for a three months term, renewable indefinitely, when s/he hasn't committed a crime but it is assumed that s/he might commit a crime "in the near future".

No COVID-19 paper trail

When the lawyer Jessica Hamed wanted to see files from the Bavarian Ministry of Health that documented how the Corona measures from March 2020 onward were decided, the ministry claimed that no files existed. It is now not possible to determine what the basis for the decisions were, for example what risk prognosis was or whether the state had weigh up legal interests and, if so, with what interests.

A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health stated that documentation is not required for such regulations. In addition, the resolutions had to be taken very quickly at the time, and research provided new insights on an ongoing basis.

 

Events

Event	Description
Bilderberg/1955 September	The third Bilderberg, in West Germany. The subject of a report by Der Spiegel which inspired a heavy blackout of subsequent meetings.
Le Cercle/1969 (Bavaria)	start/date uncertain, but included 2 July 1969
Le Cercle/1979 (Wildbad Kreuth)	First half of 1979
Munich Security Conference/2009	The 45th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2010	An anti-war demonstration outside described it as "Nothing more than a media-effectively staged war propaganda event, which this year had the purpose of justifying the NATO troop increase in Afghanistan and glorifying the continuation of the war as a contribution to peace and stability."
Munich Security Conference/2011	The 47th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2012	The 48th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2013	The 49th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2014	The 50th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2015	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/2016	The 52nd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2017	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2018	The 54th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2019	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	The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers."
Munich Security Conference/2021	"Due to Covid-19, no regular Munich Security Conference could be held in 2021."
Munich Security Conference/2022	Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here
Munich Security Conference/2023	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	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

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	End	Description
BMW Foundation	1970		German foundation financed by the family that owns auto manufacturer BMW.
Erlangen Nuremberg University	1742		Closely connected to the large engineering company Siemens
Hanns Seidel Foundation	November 1966		An important group in international parapolitical manipulation, active in Latin America, Fiji and other places.
Technical University of Munich	1868		Public research university in Munich.
University of Ingolstadt	1472 JL	1800	The Bavarian Illuminati was founded in 1776 by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt at the University of Ingolstadt.
University of Munich	1472 JL		One of Germany's most important universities
University of Passau	1973		The youngest university in Bavaria
University of Würzburg	1402 JL		University in Würzburg,Bavaria

 

Job here

Event	Job	Appointed	End
William Griffith	Chief political adviser	1950	1958

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