Michael Bohmeyer

Michael Bohmeyer (born 1 October 1984, in Rüdersdorf) is a German entrepreneur, author and activist for universal basic income in the country. In 2014, he founded the association Mein Grundeinkommen.

Life and career

Together with others, Bohmeyer founded various companies: the online sign trade Bohmeyer & Schuster GmbH, the social network want2do AG and the technology startup admineo UG.

As a passive co-owner of Bohmeyer & Schuster since 2013, Bohmeyer receives an annual profit distribution.^[1] He perceived this unpowered income as „eine Art Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen“ ("a kind of unconditional basic income"). Inspired by this experience, he founded the non-governmental organization Mein Grundeinkommen in 2014.^[1] The NGO uses crowdfunding to collect money to be raffled off as a one-year basic income of 1,000 euros per month among the people registered on its website.^[2] As of 2021, over 800 people have gained a one-year basic income.^[3]

In 2015 Bohmeyer took part in the establishment of the association Sanktionsfrei, which offers recipients of Arbeitslosengeld II [de] legal and financial help.^[4]

In 2018 the documentary film Free Lunch Society - Come Come Basic Income was released, with Michael Bohmeyer as initiator and founder of Mein Grundeinkommen.^[5]

In 2021, he appeared on the ZDF program „13 Fragen“.^[6]

Film

• 2018: Free Lunch Society - Come Come Basic Income. Documentary film, Austria / Germany, director: Christian Tod; production: Golden Girls with Michael Bohmeyer and others

Works

• 2019: Michael Bohmeyer and Claudia Cornelsen [de]: Was würdest Du tun? Wie uns das Bedingungslose Grundeinkommen verändert, Econ Verlag 2019, ISBN 3430210070