Reinhold Maier was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 politician and the leader of the FDP

Free Democratic Party (Germany)

The Free Democratic Party , abbreviated to FDP, is a centre-right classical liberal political party in Germany. It is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union in the German federal government...

 from 1957–1960.

Maier was born in Schorndorf

Schorndorf

Schorndorf is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located c. 26 km east of Stuttgart. Its station is a the terminus of line S2 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn....

. In the Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

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 Maier was a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP). In 1945 he was a founder of the Democratic People's Party

Democratic People's Party (Germany)

Democratic People's Party was the name of two liberal parties in southern Germany. It is not to be confused with the Deutsche Volkspartei of 1918 which used the same abbreviation DVP....

 (DVP), which is now the Baden-Württemberg-Organisation of the FDP.

From 1946 to 1952 he was Prime Minister of Württemberg-Baden

Württemberg-Baden

Württemberg-Baden is a former state of Federal Republic of Germany. It was created in 1945 by the U.S. occupation forces, after the previous states of Baden and Württemberg had been split up between the US and French occupation zones. Its capital was Stuttgart...

 and then Prime Minister of the new state of Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

 until 1953.

He served as President of the Bundesrat

Bundesrat of Germany

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 in 1952/53. He died in Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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