Bernd Lucke
Bernd Lucke Liberal Conservative Reformers | |
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In office 10 November 2018 – 28 September 2019 | |
Preceded by | Stephanie Tsomakaeva (interim) |
Succeeded by | Jürgen Joost |
In office 19 July 2015 – 4 June 2016 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Ulrike Trebesius |
Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 1 July 2014 – 2 July 2019 | |
Preceded by | multi-member district |
Succeeded by | multi-member district |
Constituency | Germany |
Personal details | |
Born | Bernd Lucke 19 August 1962 LKR (2015–present) |
Other political affiliations | CDU (1978–2011) Free Voters (2013) AfD (2013–2015) |
Spouse | Dorothea Lucke |
Children | 5 |
Residence | Winsen (Luhe) |
Alma mater | |
Signature | |
Website | www |
Bernd Lucke (born 19 August 1962) is a German economist, professor, author and former politician. He was a co-founder of the
Lucke is a professor of
Biography
Early life and professional career
Lucke was born in West Berlin in 1962. His father was an engineer and his mother a school teacher. In 1969 he moved to Haan in North Rhine-Westphalia.[6]
From 1982 to 1984, Lucke studied economics, history, and philosophy at the
Lucke has been an advisor to the World Bank and a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.[8] He is a frequent guest on political talk shows in Germany. He is married and has five children.[8][9][10]
Political career and AfD
Lucke joined the
In 2013, he founded Wahlalternative 2013 ("Electoral Alternative 2013") with
During a campaign speech in Bremen on 24 August 2013, Lucke was attacked with pepper spray by two members of Anti-fascist Action. Several people in the audience were treated for irritation of the eyes and throat.[14]
During the
Following the rise of the Pegida protests in Germany which were welcomed by some AfD state branches, Lucke stated that most of the arguments voiced by Pegida were legitimate and that the movement was a sign that politicians had not listened to concerns felt by ordinary people.[17][18]
On 4 July 2015, Lucke was displaced as leader of the party
In 2015, Lucke was announced as the LKR's top candidate for the Bundestag ahead of the 2017 German federal election, however the LKR decided not to contest the election. The party stood in the 2019 European parliament elections but all of its MEPs including Lucke lost their seats.
Post-AfD leadership
Lucke continued to work as a public commentator on economic and political affairs after his career as an MEP. In 2017, he argued that the German media should not "demonize" the AfD, arguing that voters for the party were concerned about legitimate issues but that the leadership of the AfD had become too extreme.[21] However, in 2019 Lucke supported a proposal by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to monitor the AfD and claimed the party now contained right-wing extremist elements that went against the German constitution.[22]
In October 2019, Lucke left politics and returned to academic work at the University of Hamburg as an economics teacher. He was unable to deliver two lectures after being assaulted by an Antifa activist. At the same time, the student union AStA called for Lucke's removal from the university due to his past association with the AfD and for what they argued was his role in helping the rise of the far-right in Germany.[23] Lucke also turned down an offer by the university to host online classes and later that month was able to resume lectures under police protection. Lucke has also worked as an opinion columnist for Welt am Sonntag since 2019.[24]
Selected publications
- Beaudry, Paul; ——— (2009). "Letting Different Views about Business Cycles Compete". NBER Macroeconomics Annual. 24 (1): 413–456. S2CID 7585799.
- ———; .
- ——— (2003). "Are Technical Trading Rules Profitable? Evidence for Head-and-shoulder Rules". S2CID 11699815.
- ——— (1998). "Productivity shocks in a sectoral real business cycle model for West Germany". S2CID 154180554.
- ——— (1997). Theorie und Empirie realer Konjunkturzyklen. Studies in Contemporary Economics (in German). Heidelberg: Physica. ISBN 978-3-7908-1148-3.
References
- ^ "Ex-chief of German anti-euro party starts new eurosceptic group". Yahoo News. 19 July 2015.
- ^ "Germany's ex-AfD leader sets up new eurosceptic party". Reuters UK. Archived from the original on 21 August 2015.
- ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany (19 July 2015). "ALFA: AfD-Gründer Bernd Lucke gründet neue Partei". SPIEGEL ONLINE.
- ^ a b GmbH, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (13 November 2016). "Partei um Bernd Lucke: Alfa findet einen neuen Namen". FAZ.NET (in German). Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ "Europawahl 2019: Vorläufiges amtliches Ergebnis – der Bundeswahlleiter".
- ^ Hendrik Ankenbrand (25 December 2013). "Bernd Lucke. Der Protestant". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
- ^ a b Curriculum Vitae Archived 21 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine, University of Hamburg, last updated 26 January 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine, 24 March 2013.
- ^ Vasagar, Jeevan, and Harriet Alexander, "Bernd Lucke: Merkel's new rival and Germany's first serious Euroskeptic"[permanent dead link], London Daily Telegraph via Ottawa Citizen, 11 April 2013. Similar, earlier story also: Alexander, Harriet, and Jeevan Vasagar in Berlin, "Bernd Lucke interview: 'Why Germany has had enough of the euro'", The Telegraph, 7 April 2013.
- ^ Interview: Volkswirtschaftler über die konservative „Wahlalternative 2013" (in German) Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine, 4 October 2012, retrieved 24 August 2013
- ^ "Bernd Lucke. The Protestant". Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "Torsten Jung Spitzenkandidat der FREIEN WÄHLER Niedersachsen". Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "Neue Partei "AfD" will raus aus dem Euro". Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "Angriff im Wahlkampf gegen Bernd Lucke". Tagesspiegel. 24 August 2013.
- ^ "Lower Saxony direct candidates for the German Bundestag". Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "German anti-euro party says won't team up with xenophobes". Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ Hugglet, Justin (10 December 2014). "German Eurosceptics embrace anti-Islam protests". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ "Anti-Islam 'Pegida' march in German city of Dresden". Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "AfD ditches Lucke as party swings to right". 5 July 2015.
- ^ "AfD founder resigns over 'xenophobic' power grab". 9 July 2015.
- ^ "'It's wrong to demonize the AfD'". Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "Party founder Lucke advocates monitoring the AfD". Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "Tumults in front of the lecture hall - Bernd Lucke's lecture canceled again". Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "Third attempt: Lecture by Bernd Lucke at the University of Hamburg - Police secure building". Retrieved 22 January 2024.
External links
- University of Hamburg, Bernd Lucke (de)
- Homepage of "Plenum of Economists"
- Homepage of "Bündnis Bürgerwille" (Alliance of Citizens' Will")
- Cofounder of "Wahlalternative 2013" (Election Alternative 2013)
- Party Hompeage Lucke speaker of "Alternative für Deutschland" (Alternative for Germany)
- Marsh, David, "New anti-euro party intensifies pressure on Merkel", MarketWatch, 15 April 2013.
- Spiegel portrait of Bernd Lucke and AfD, May 2014
- Business Insider: Meet the Influential German Professor Who Wants to Get Rid of the Euro in Order to Save Europe retrieved 30 March 2013.
- Deutsche Welle interview with Bernd Lucke: Where is the German Euroskeptic party AfD headed? retrieved July 2015.