Life so far - juri maier.

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Born in Berlin
Raised in Baden-Baden and Heidelberg
Escaped compulsory service by moving to Berlin right after school
Studied Political Science in Berlin, International Politics in Aberystwyth and Government in Stockholm
Developed the International Crisis Simulation “das krisenspiel” as a tutor for the Freie Universität Berlin

Switch to Communications:

Trained by the Austrian Socialist Youth how to use computers for politics in late 1994
Designed a website for “das krisenspiel” in early 1995
Hired by the Berlin Social Democrats for internet trainings and redesigning their website in 1995
Employed as webdesigner at Tangens Advertising (later Dynewski PR) in 1996
Employed as project manager (later as team leader) at Aperto in 1997
Finished studying with a thesis on “Internet as a PR-Instrument” in 1998, examining the chances for using the internet in agenda-building looking at recent election campaigns

Switch to Politics:

Short political career as speaker of the Berlin Mitte Social Democrats youth organisation, as vice chairman of the Berlin Mitte Social Democrats in this function member of the Social Democrats Berlin land committee
Employed as communications officer at the German Social Democrats youth organisation in 1999

Switch to Political Communications:

Founded wegewerk in 2000 starting big, helped by a VC
Co-founded the German Association of Polical Consultants (de’ge’pol) in 2001
Bought out my VC with a partner taking over summoned debt in 2004, involuntarily bought out my partner in 2010
Running wegewerk as sole managing director since then, with a workers council since 2011
Co-founded the German Group in Back-on-Track.eu in 2022
Co-founded Back-on-Track Europe a.i.s.b.l. as an European umbrella NGO in 2024

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