Andreas Maurer (Russian: Андреас Маурер; born 5 January 1970) is a German mail carrier and local politician (formerly CDU; formerly The Left) convicted of electoral fraud.

[6] From 2009 until 2018, he was a member of the Lower Saxon state board of the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, an interest group for Germans from Russia in Germany.

In 2006, Maurer left the CDU, claiming that despite bringing in good electoral results, the party would not nominate him for higher office.

[8][15][16] Despite not being a member of The Left at the time, the party nominated Maurer to run as a direct candidate for the 2008 Lower Saxony state election, which he did unsuccessfully.

[17][18] Maurer joined The Left in 2011, successfully running for council in the town of Quakenbrück, the Artland collective municipality and the District of Osnabrück in the same year.

Maurer had described the move as a "sign that it is possible to bring people back", and Büttner added that The Left fraction would not have taken Bojani in if she had not changed.

[21] The Lower Saxon state branch of The Left called the move "damaging to the party"[22] and asked Maurer and Büttner to exclude Bojani from their fraction, which they did not.

Subsequently, the Lower Saxon state branch of The Left unsuccessfully tried to exclude Maurer and Büttner from their party in early 2019.

[23] The incident was also discussed outside of the party, critics calling it a "confirmation of the horseshoe theory"[24] and said that "The Left in the district of Osnabrück lost credibility".

[26] In the 2016 local elections in Lower Saxony, Maurer's party The Left received unusually many votes in Quakenbrück, with especially high numbers on mail-in ballots.

[28][35][36][37][38][39] According to the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, Maurer "can without exaggeration be called one of the most famous German politicians in modern Russia".

Maurer attended the forum alongside conspiracy theorist Ken Jebsen and far-right AfD politicians Markus Frohnmaier, Robby Schlund, Ulrich Oehme, Stefan Keuter and Waldemar Herdt.

[36][37] He has accused then-president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko of "genocide" and "war against a peaceful people" for attempts to re-gain the areas in 2018.