Georg Barfuß

Georg Barefoot ( born June 10, 1944 in Lauingen (Donau) ) is a Bavarian politician (CSU, FDP ).

Personal and professional

Barefoot trained as a banker and worked first at the Bavarian Mortgage and Exchange Bank in Lauingen (Donau). He studied from 1967 to 1972 at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich Diploma commercial teacher. Then was until 1986 as a teacher in Augsburg, Günzburg and Lauingen (Donau) operates.

From 2004 until his entry into the state legislature, he was a management consultant and professor of economic policy at the private university of applied management operates. On his website he offers financing, seminars and assistance to authorities. Georg Barefoot was 24 years a member of the CSU before he became in 2004 a member of the FDP Bavaria.

He is estranged and has five children. Barefoot is a member of the Catholic Student Association K.St.V. Southmarch Munich in CT.

Public offices

Barefoot was from 1986 to 2004 full-time first mayor of Lauingen (Donau). Among the merits of his tenure include the integration of foreign residents. So the Hicret Mosque in Lauingen was inaugurated as the first mosque with minaret in Bavaria and wife separated area on March 2, 1996 for which he was awarded the 2003 German -Turkish Freedom Award. However, this has also often introduced criticism from former party colleagues of the Christian Social Union, when they saw this commitment as an affront to the party program it.

His deselection as mayor is accompanied in his hometown with mixed feelings. While supporters considered its commitment to the community and society as a profitable, he was widely criticized by opponents mainly because of its poor financial management.

In the 2005 federal election, he ran unsuccessfully in the federal electoral district of Donau-Ries. He was a longtime member of the city council Lauingen (Donau) and is a member of the district of Dillingen ad Danube.

In the regional elections of 2008 he ran unsuccessfully in the voting district Augsburg -Land, Dillingen, but was selected by the FDP district list Swabia in the state legislature. After the FDP in the state elections in Bavaria in 2013, the 5 - % level could not overcome, he resigned from the parliament.

He was assigned as integration coordinator of the Free State of Bavaria and said in an interview that one could apply the Sharia, as far as this is compatible with the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany. This statement was unbearable perceived in public as well as in the FDP than in an enlightened, secular republic, whereupon Barefoot withdrew his application for the post of Commissioner for Integration.

Similarly, Barefoot was about the Christian side criticism when he announced in 2008 following sentence: "I need no churches in Turkey, if there are no Christians," and spoke of a possibility, as many mosques were build, " as Muslims want ". Thus, the ratio of the major Christian churches was permanently disturbed and on many small political blogs and newspapers loud criticism of Georg Barefoot was attached.

Through the retired Bavarian FDP from parliament 2013 Barefoot lost his seat in Parliament.