Education
University of Heidelberg.
University of Heidelberg.
From 1946 to 1952 he was Minister President of Württemberg-Baden and then the 1st Minister President of the new state of Baden-Württemberg until 1953. Maier was born in Schorndorf. He died in Stuttgart.
He served as the 4th President of the Bundesrat in 1952/53, the only Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party) politician in German history to do so to date, as well as one of only two Presidents to not come from either the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) or the Social Democratic Party of Germany (the other one is Winfried Kretschmann, who is member of Alliance "90/The Greens an was the 67th President of the Bundesrat in 2012/13).
In the Weimar Republic Maier was a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP).
