Bavarian politician Hubert Aiwanger found dead in Berlin hotel
Hubert Aiwanger, a prominent German politician and leader of the Free Voters party, has died. He was found dead in a Berlin hotel room on Wednesday evening. A scheduled speech before the Free Voters in Berlin had been canceled, with party sources citing his feeling unwell as the reason.
Prior to his death, Aiwanger maintained a busy schedule, traveling across several German states. He recently visited the Central Association of Surface Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia to discuss economic conditions within the industry. In a video released Tuesday, Aiwanger described these companies as “a systemically relevant sector” crucial to Bavaria’s automotive industry.
On Tuesday, he also reported from Schwandorf in Upper Palatinate, where he reviewed the progress of the “Artificial Intelligence in Craftsmanship Lower Bavaria-Upper Palatinate” project.
Sunday saw Aiwanger in Schleswig-Holstein, where he began campaigning for the state elections in April and presented a candidate. The day before, he visited a fish ladder construction site in Landsberg am Lech.
In late October, Aiwanger led an economic delegation to Poland, where he met with Polish government officials, Michal Baranowski (State Secretary in the Ministry of Economy) and Rafal Rosinski (State Secretary in the Ministry of Digitalization), to discuss closer cooperation between Bavarian and Polish companies, particularly in the automotive, satellite technology, and aerospace sectors.
A delegation trip to China, planned for late November, would have focused on intelligent manufacturing, automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence in industrial production, including company visits, a workshop for small and medium-sized enterprises, and meetings with local business and political representatives.
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