Eduard Lintner
Eduard Lintner | |
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Lintner in 2013 | |
| Member of the German Bundestag | |
| In office 1976–2009 | |
| Parliamentary group | CDU/CSU |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 November 1944 |
| Party | Christian Social Union in Bavaria |
| Alma mater | University of Würzburg |
| Awards | Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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Eduard Lintner (born 4 November 1944 in Marktlangendorf, Sudetenland) is a German politician and lobbyist. From 1976 to 2009 he served as a member of the German Bundestag.
He also served from 1991 to 1998 as Parliamentary State Secretary for the Federal Secretary of the Interior and from 1992 to 1998 he was the Drug Enforcement Officer in the Federal Government.
In 2017, it was revealed that Lintner had lobbied on behalf of the authoritarian regime in Azerbaijan and has been involved in the Azerbaijani laundromat scandal, which was a complex money-laundering scheme, used to pay off European politicians in an attempt to whitewash Azerbaijan's reputation abroad.