Overview
- German outlets citing Ruhr Nachrichten reported that Bülow died after a prolonged serious illness.
- He served in the Bundestag from 2002 to 2021 and won his Dortmund constituency directly five times.
- He left the SPD in 2018 in protest at another CDU–SPD coalition and later joined Die Partei, failing to return to parliament in 2021 with 8.6 percent and a fourth-place finish.
- Bülow authored the books Lobbyland and Korrumpiert, hosted a Lobbyland podcast whose last episode appeared days ago, and worked as an NGO adviser and freelance journalist including for the Berliner Zeitung.
- Tributes noted his integrity and anti-lobbyism stance, with reactions from Sabine Poschmann, Jens Peick, Fabio de Masi and Dietmar Bartsch.