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Markus Söder
Markus Thomas Theodor Söder is a German politician from Bavaria, Germany serving as Minister-President of Bavaria since 2018 and leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) since 2019.
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Born 5 January 1967 · Q50664
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Euronews: Bavarian state premier Markus Söder calls for stop to citizen's allowance for Ukrainian refugees
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2024· 1 entry
– Honorary doctorate, Tsinghua University
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog (2021).
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Karl Valentin (2020).
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2019· 1 entry
Career landmark: Leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (2019).
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2018· 4 entries
Politico Europe: Markus Söder reelected as Bavarian state premier
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Career landmark: member of the Landtag of Bavaria (2018).
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Career landmark: Minister-President of Bavaria (2018).
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Söder's government enacted the Kreuzpflicht, an obligation to display crosses at the entrance of public buildings
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2017· 1 entry
“s pension fund for civil servants had lost as much as €700,000 ($780,000) as a consequence of the scandal. When Seehofer came under pressure after the CSU had suffered heavy losses in the 2017 national elections, he decided to remain party chairman but agreed to hand over leadership of Bavaria to Söder. This was the result of a long-running”
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Orden wider den tierischen Ernst (2016).
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2015· 1 entry
Söder and his Austrian counterpart Hans Jörg Schelling agreed a provisional deal that settled the two governments’ array of legal disputes stemming from the collapse of the Carinthian regional bank Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank I
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2014· 1 entry
Pushed BayernLB to sell its Hungarian MKB unit to that country's government, ending an ill-fated investment that had cost it a total of €2 billion ($2
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2013· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Landtag of Bavaria (2013–2018).
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2012· 2 entries
Söder and Minister-President Horst Seehofer filed a lawsuit in the Federal Constitutional Court, asking the judges to back their call for an overhaul of the German system of financial transfers from wealthier states (suc
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Under Söder's leadership, Bavaria pledged €500,000 ($687,546) in public funding for the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) to produce a critical, annotated version of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf for publ
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2011· 2 entries
Career landmark: Bavarian minister of finance (2011–2018).
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Career landmark: Member of the Bundesrat of Germany (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Order of Merit (2010).
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2008· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Landtag of Bavaria (2008–2013).
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2007· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the Bundesrat of Germany (2007–2008).
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Career landmark: deputy member of the Bundesrat of Germany (2007–2008).
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2003· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Landtag of Bavaria (2003–2008).
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1998· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Landtag of Bavaria (1998–2003).
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Was awarded a doctorate in law with a dissertation in legal history with the title Von altdeutschen Rechtstraditionen zu einem modernen Gemeindeedikt
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1994· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Landtag of Bavaria (1994–1998).
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1991· 2 entries
And was a research assistant at the department of constitutional, administrative and church law at the same university
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Studied at University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Staatsexamen (1987–1991).
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1986· 1 entry
Söder completed his compulsory year of military service from 1986 to 1987
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1967· 1 entry
Born 1967-01-05.
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1923· 1 entry
“Bible Teaching and Religious Practice”
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1897· 1 entry
“What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?”
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1869· 2 entries
“Man's Place in the Animal World”
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“Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Farm”
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1865· 1 entry
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
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