Background
STIEGLER, Ludwig was born on April 9, 1944 in Parsberg.
politician member of the German Bundestag
STIEGLER, Ludwig was born on April 9, 1944 in Parsberg.
Universities of Munich and Bonn, law, sociology and politics. National law examinations, 1973, 1976.
He has been deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany"s group in the Bundestag since 2002. Since that he has worked as a lawyer In 1964 Stiegler joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In 2004 he was elected chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the state of Bavaria.
Stiegler has been criticized several times for controversial statements.
In July 2002 he said that the Christian Democratic Union and Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party) didn"t have the right to criticize then Federal Minister of the Interior and former Royal Air Force-lawyer Otto Schily in relation to the attempt to ban the far-right National Purchase Diary, because "the forerunners of Christian Democratic Union and Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party) helped bring Adolf Hitler to power."
In July 2005 he said that the only thing that came to his mind in relation to the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union)"s slogan during the election campaign Sozial ist, was Arbeit schafft! ("Social is that which creates work") was the line at the door to Nazi Germany"s death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau: "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes free").
Catholic
Stiegler studied law, sociology and political science in Bonn and Munich. Foreign a short period he was chairman of the party"s parliamentary group (July–October 2002), afterwards he became deputy chairman.
Industrial Union, Mining and Energy. Union of Public Services, Transport and Traffic. German Lawyers’ Associate.
Association, of German Jurors. German Organisation for Legal Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright. German Society for Building Law.