Bernd Lucke (born 19 August 1962) is a German economist and politician. Lucke was elected a
Member of the European Parliament
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When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
(MEP) for the
Alternative für Deutschland
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(AfD) in 2014. He failed to win reelection in 2019.
He is a professor of
economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
at the
University of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vo ...
, a co-founder of ''Wahlalternative 2013'' ("Electoral Alternative 2013"), and a founder of the party
Alternative for Germany (AfD). Lucke lost the leadership of the AfD to
Frauke Petry
Frauke Petry (; ; born 1 June 1975) is a German politician who chaired the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party from July 2015 to September 2017. A chemist by training and with a professional background as a businesswoman, some political scientis ...
in July 2015. Petry's election was considered a shift of the party to extremist positions; Lucke subsequently left the party. In July 2015 he and other former AfD members founded the political party ''
Liberal-Konservative Reformer''
(formerly ''Allianz für Fortschritt und Aufbruch'',
"Alliance for progress and renewal", abbreviated ALFA).
Biography
From 1982 to 1984, Lucke studied economics, history, and philosophy at the
University of Bonn
The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...
; he undertook graduate studies in economics at the University of Bonn and
UC Berkeley
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from 1984 to 1987. He completed his doctorate in 1991 with a dissertation on price stabilization in world agricultural markets under
Jürgen Wolters at
Free University of Berlin
The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...
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[ After the ]fall of the Berlin Wall
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, he worked in the Council of Economic Experts of the East German Government and, after the German reunification, as an assistant to the Senate of Berlin
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. Lucke's research interests include sovereign default
A sovereign default is the failure or refusal of the
government of a sovereign state to pay back its debt in full when due. Cessation of due payments (or receivables) may either be accompanied by that government's formal declaration that it wi ...
, news-driven business cycles, growth in developing countries, dynamic CGE models, and applied econometrics.[Curriculum Vitae]
, University of Hamburg, last updated 26 January 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
Lucke has been an advisor to the World Bank
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and a visiting scholar
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at the University of British Columbia
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in Vancouver.[( de) von Petersdorff, Winand]
"Wer ist der Anti-Euro-Professor Bernd Lucke?"
''Frankfurter Allgemeine
The ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (; ''FAZ''; "''Frankfurt General Newspaper''") is a centre-right conservative-liberal and liberal-conservativeHans Magnus Enzensberger: Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen' (in German). ''Deutschland Radio'', ...
'', 24 March 2013. He is a frequent guest on political talk shows in Germany. He is married and has five children.[Vasagar, Jeevan, and Harriet Alexander]
"Bernd Lucke: Merkel's new rival and Germany's first serious Euroskeptic"
London ''Daily Telegraph'' via ''Ottawa Citizen'', 11 April 2013. Similar, earlier story also: Alexander, Harriet, and Jeevan Vasagar in Berlin
''The Telegraph'', 7 April 2013.
During a campaign speech in Bremen on 24 August 2013, Lucke was attacked with pepper spray
Pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum spray, OC spray, capsaicin spray, or capsicum spray is a lachrymatory agent (a compound that irritates the eyes to cause a burning sensation, pain, and temporary blindness) used in policing, riot control, ...
by two members of Anti-fascist Action. Several people in the audience were treated for irritation of the eyes and throat.
On 4 July 2015, Lucke was displaced as leader of the party Alternative for Germany (AfD) by his former deputy, Frauke Petry
Frauke Petry (; ; born 1 June 1975) is a German politician who chaired the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party from July 2015 to September 2017. A chemist by training and with a professional background as a businesswoman, some political scientis ...
, after several months of infighting. On 9 July 2015, Lucke left the Alternative for Germany, saying that the party had "fallen irretrievably into the wrong hands" after Petry's election, and on 19 July, he and other former members of the AfD founded a new party, the Alliance for Progress and Renewal (ALFA). ALFA has since been renamed ''Liberal-Konservative Reformer'' ("Liberal-conservative reformers").
Selected publications
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References
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.
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