Germany

Thilo Sarrazin

**Short description:**
Thilo Sarrazin was born 1945. He was a long time member of the German Socialdemocrats (SPD), from 1973 to his expulsion 2020.
From 2002 to 2009 he was Finanzsenator in Berlin.
In 2008 he produces headlines with he tipps how poor people can live with 4 Euro a day.
In 2010 he publishes he book „Deutschland schafft sich ab“, with chauvinistic, anti-poor and racist messages.
He declared he book to be scientifical, but it was more right wing populism with footnotes.
Sarrazin produces right wing output, but in the first time has no connections to the far right.
Over the years he establish this connections.
So he is author of the follwing far right and right wing conservative magazins:
* CATO (1/2018)
* Schweizerzeit from Switzerland
* „Weltwoche“ from Switzerland
* „Achse des Guten“ (Blog)
* „eigentümlich frei“

He also hold speeches for the „Liberaler Klub“ 2013, 2014 and 2015, the FPÖ parliamentary group, and a conference of COMPACT 2013.

**First Sources:**
– Homepage: www.thilo-sarrazin.de (German)
– Homepage: https://sarrazin-buch.de/ (German)