Christoph Waibel

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Christoph Waibel (2017)

Christoph Waibel (born March 15, 1965 in Lustenau ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ ) and former television presenter. Waibel was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 2014 to 2019 . He has been a city councilor in his hometown of Dornbirn since October 2019 .

education and profession

Christoph Waibel was born on March 15, 1965 as the son of Winfried and Margit Waibel in the market town of Lustenau . He grew up in the city of Hohenems , where he also attended elementary school. The lower level AHS completed Waibel on Bundesgymnasium Dornbirn . In upper school, he moved to the Dornbirn Sports High School and passed his Matura there in 1985 . During his school days at the Dornbirn Sports High School, Christoph Waibel became the Austrian master of artistic gymnastics.

After completing his military service in 1985/86, Waibel studied sport, English and PPP at the University of Innsbruck from 1986 to 1990 without a degree. During his studies, Waibel worked from 1986 to 1988 as a freelancer for the Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung and was subsequently poached by the Kronen Zeitung from there in 1988 . At the Kronen Zeitung he was head of department for the development and management of a 40 to 50-person local editorial team for the state of Vorarlberg .

In 1991 Christoph Waibel finally came to ORF Vorarlberg, where he was involved in the reintroduction of the permanent ice hockey magazine. In 1994 he came up with the idea and implementation of the radio club for Radio Vorarlberg. From May 31, 1999, Waibel also regularly moderated the programs of the news magazine “ Vorarlberg heute ”, which is broadcast across Vorarlberg on public television , which helped him to become very popular in Vorarlberg. Waibel ended his work as an ORF presenter at the end of May 2014.

Political career

After leaving the journalistic environment of ORF, Christoph Waibel began to deal intensively with politics in the run-up to the state elections in Vorarlberg in 2014 . First of all, he held talks with the new NEOS party , but these did not lead to any further political involvement in the party. Ultimately, Waibel found a political home with the Vorarlberg Freedom Party , who also offered him a place on the list for the 2014 state election.

In the state election itself, Waibel finally ran for the FPÖ in the Dornbirn constituency and was able to move into the Vorarlberg state parliament thanks to a good preferential vote result after the election. He was sworn in for the first time as a member of parliament on October 15, 2014. In the state parliament of the 30th legislative period , Waibel became area spokesman for the Freedom State Parliament Club for Integration, Schools and Education, Science and Further Education and Deputy Chairman of the Culture and Education Committee. After the state elections in 2019 , he left the state parliament.

In the 2015 municipal council and mayoral elections , Christoph Waibel ran for second place on the FPÖ list in Dornbirn and was elected to the Dornbirn city council. For the 2019 state elections , Waibel was again placed in fourth place on the FPÖ district list in Dornbirn. On the state list of the FPÖ Vorarlberg, on which he was still in 2014 second behind the then FPÖ state chairman Dieter Egger , he was placed 14th in the list in 2019. In October 2019 Waibel took over the office of City Councilor in Dornbirn from the then FPÖ city party chairman Walter Schönbeck. In the 2020 city council and mayoral election , Christoph Waibel heads the “List Christoph Waibel - Freedom Dornbirn” as the top and mayoral candidate of the FPÖ.

Private life

Christoph Waibel is divorced and has three children. He lives in Dornbirn .

Web links

Commons : Christoph Waibel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Incorrectly in the Landtag biography: Wilfried
  2. ↑ Christoph Waibel. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at contacts. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Matthias Rauch: “Vorarlberg heute” presenter Christoph Waibel leaves ORF at the end of May. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). May 19, 2014, accessed September 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Christoph Waibel is a candidate for the FPÖ. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). May 27, 2014, accessed August 13, 2019 .
  5. ^ Vorarlberg Landtag passes outgoing MPs. In: VOL.at . October 30, 2019, accessed November 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ FPÖ boots Waibel - only 14th place on the list. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). August 12, 2019, accessed August 13, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Waibel becomes FPÖ city councilor in Dornbirn. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . September 16, 2019, accessed September 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Danielle Biedebach: New city councilors and a vice who is leaving soon. In: Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung (NEUE.at). October 18, 2019, accessed December 29, 2019 .
  9. ^ Five mayoral candidates in Dornbirn. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . August 20, 2020, accessed August 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Waibel, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the Vorarlberg state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Lustenau