Michael Bohmeyer (born 1 October 1984, in Rüdersdorf) is a German entrepreneur, author and activist for universal basic income. In 2014, he founded the association Mein Grundeinkommen.
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[4]
legal and financial help.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]