Eduard Lintner

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.

After graduating from school in Cham in 1966, Lintner studied jurisprudence at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. In 1973 he passed the second state examination and worked in the administration of the State of Bavaria until 1976 and subsequently worked as a councilor in the Kitzingen district office. In 1981 he was admitted to the bar in Bad Neustadt.

Lintner joined the CSU and the Junge Union (JU) in 1962, while still at school. From 1970 to 1972 he was chairman of the JU district association for Würzburg and from 1972 to 1978 chairman of the JU district association of Lower Franconia.

From 1972 to 1974 Lintner was elected member of the municipal council of Erlabrunn.

From 1976 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag. From 1982 to 1990 also served as chairman of the German Politics and Berlin Issues working group of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.

After the federal elections in 1990, Lintner was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior in the federal government led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl on 24 January 1991. From 27 August 1992, he was also the Federal Government's first drug commissioner. After the 1998 Bundestag elections, he left the office on 26 October 1998.