Erwin Pröll

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Erwin Pröll (2015)

Erwin Pröll (born December 24, 1946 in Radlbrunn , Lower Austria ) is a former Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) who was Governor of Lower Austria from 1992 to 2017 . From 1980 to 1981 he was provincial councilor in the Lower Austrian provincial government, then until 1992 first deputy governor. From 1992 to 2017 he was regional party leader of the People's Party of Lower Austria (VPNÖ).

Life

Pröll's parents were wine growers. He attended elementary school in Radlbrunn and secondary school in Ziersdorf . After graduating from high school in Tulln , he studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna and graduated in 1976 as an agricultural economist with the academic degree Dr. nat. tech. from. Even before his doctorate, he was brought to the Austrian Farmers' Union in 1972 as an economic policy advisor . At the age of 33 he was elected to the Lower Austrian provincial government, since January 1981 as Deputy Governor. On October 22, 1992, Pröll became governor of Lower Austria. At the age of 25, he was the longest serving Austrian governor after Heinrich Gleißner .

Together with his wife Elisabeth (born in 1950 in Vienna as Elisabeth Terebesy) he has four children. He is the uncle of the former Austrian Federal Minister for Finance and Vice Chancellor Josef Pröll .

He is an honorary member of the Ö.kaV Rhaeto-Danubia Vienna, the K.Ö.HV Franco-Bavaria Vienna , the K.Ö.AV Floriana St. Pölten in the Austrian Cartel Association (ÖCV) and the K.Ö.Agr.St. V. Bergland zu Wieselburg in the Middle Schools Cartel Association (MKV). He is also a member of the Rotarians .

Political career

  • Provincial Council from March 27, 1980 to January 22, 1981
  • Deputy Governor from January 22, 1981 to October 21, 1992
  • Governor from October 22, 1992 to April 19, 2017

Political activity

His tenure was the relocation of the Lower Austrian provincial government with the Office of the Provincial Government and other institutions of Vienna in the Sankt Pölten Landhausviertel .

Pröll is an advocate of the so-called grand coalition of the ÖVP and SPÖ . In 2000 he was still a supporter of black and blue , two years later he spoke out against reuniting with the FPÖ . Pröll also maintains a good relationship with the former Mayor of Vienna Michael Häupl ( SPÖ ). Pröll is considered one of the most influential politicians in the ÖVP, who at the same time likes to oppose the federal ÖVP in public. Before federal politics, Pröll introduced the lowering of the maximum number of students to 25, presented an independent care model or a school model for Lower Austria.

Even as a young member of the state government, Pröll pursued environmental issues and demanded a CO 2 tax .

From 1992 to 2017 he was the successor of Siegfried Ludwig Governor of Lower Austria and in the Lower Austrian state elections in 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008 and 2013 the top candidate of the Lower Austrian People's Party . In the first state election with Pröll as the top candidate in 1993 , the ÖVP lost 3.37% of the votes cast and was able to achieve 44.87 percent in the subsequent state election in 1998 with an increase of 0.64% of the votes cast.

Pröll's planned cell phone mast tax in Lower Austria caused a stir across Europe. This tax was initially decided with the votes of the ÖVP and SPÖ, but after an agreement with the mobile network operators on jointly erected and used masts was abolished, which was welcomed by EU Commissioner Viviane Reding .

In 2003, ÖVP Lower Austria achieved an absolute majority in the state elections with 53.3 percent for the first time since 1983. During his third term in office, the Institute of Science and Technology Austria was realized in Klosterneuburg. This term of office also included projects such as the Krems campus, the MedAustron cancer research center in Wiener Neustadt, the Tulln research center, the Lower Austrian South Economic and Business Park and Austria's first biofuel plant in Tullnerfeld. In 2007 Lower Austria was named the most innovative region in Europe by the EU Commission. In the first half of 2006 he hosted a subsidiarity conference of EU politicians.

In the Lower Austrian state elections in 2008 , the ÖVP with top candidate Pröll again achieved an absolute majority with 54.39 percent of the votes cast and 1.1 percentage points more than in 2003 . According to surveys, the main motives for the ÖVP voters were the top candidate Pröll and the good development of Lower Austria. In the election campaign, prominent personalities had spoken out in favor of Pröll, including "not too bourgeois artists like the cartoonist Manfred Deix and the actress Erika Pluhar " , but also the Austrian soccer team boss Josef Hickersberger , the festival director Harald Serafin and the actor Felix Dvorak . During the election campaign, Pröll had spoken out against the construction of minarets in Lower Austria, describing them as "alien". He had also proposed that the criminal records of asylum seekers be published.

In the Lower Austrian state election in 2013 , the ÖVP with top candidate Pröll almost achieved an absolute majority with 50.79 percent of the votes cast, 3.6 percentage points less than in the state election in 2008.

Within the ÖVP, Pröll was repeatedly traded as a candidate for the office of Federal President , most recently in the federal presidential election in Austria in 2016 . In several interviews, however, he repeatedly announced that this office was not included in his “life planning”.

On January 17, 2017, Pröll announced that he would step down from all political offices in March of that year. On January 18, 2017, his deputy, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, was presented as successor at a press conference , who was elected as the new governor on April 19, 2017.

On March 24, 2017, Pröll was elected honorary party chairman of the Lower Austria People's Party during the 2017 state party conference .

On September 7, 2017, Pröll was appointed Honorary Consul of the Republic of Slovenia in Lower Austria.

In the first half of 2018, while Bulgaria held the EU Presidency , Pröll acted as an advisor to the Bulgarian Prime Minister , Boyko Borissow .

In February 2018 wrote Pröll, against the ÖVP / FPÖ government program in the federal government, along with other prominent ÖVP - politicians , the anti-smoking referendum Do not smoke , which campaigns for a general ban on smoking in restaurants.

criticism

A main point of criticism of Pröll's handling of criticism is the alleged appropriation of the media, especially the ORF Niederösterreich and the Niederösterreichische Nachrichten ; critical reports would be answered with threats of advertising withdrawal from friendly business enterprises. Peter Rabl wrote in the Austrian daily Kurier : “Pröll has led the country very successfully with a strong, sometimes brutal hand, but with great personal openness and breadth. Significantly, the election campaigners of the other parties hardly come up with factual accusations against the previous state politics. " In the Wiener Zeitung, Pröll was described as a " traditional power politician " surrounded by " an almost legendary joviality " , which " often only extends to the first critical question " persist, which is why journalists "not always have it easy with Erwin Pröll" . Gerald John of Standard summed it up like this: “Anyone, from minister to journalist, who picks up at the wrong time can be bunched up. Contradiction is not provided for in Pröll's political microcosm. " Eric Frey from Standard writes about Pröll: " Pröll scares me. He is a charismatic but arbitrary, authoritarian and resentful power man who believes his will is law. He has no real opposition, and neither does critical state media. "

With 150,000 euros, which the politician received on his 60th birthday in 2006 from donors not known by name, he set up the Dr. Erwin Pröll Privatstiftung , a charitable private foundation . This came under fire in early 2017 after it became known that the Lower Austrian provincial government had decided to grant more than one million euros in funding without ever informing the public about the funding. An investigation by the State Audit Office came to the conclusion “that the funding was handled within the framework of the private sector administration, that the procedure deviated from the general guidelines for funding of the state of Lower Austria, without this being expressly stated in the government resolutions, that it could not rely on any funding law and was fraught with conflicts of interest ”. The foundation, which had already announced before the report was published, that it would repay the funded money to the state because the foundation's goals would not be achievable, did not, as it turned out, do so voluntarily, contrary to its own statements, but instead was from the competent authority of the state been asked.

Another point of criticism concerns his, according to Anneliese Rohrer, lost feeling for the distinction between the decent and the unseemly.

Trivia

According to his own statement in 1995, Pröll only “ read a single book in its entirety ” ( Karl May's Der Schatz im Silbersee ). He is a passionate cyclist. The Dr.-Erwin-Pröll-Warte on the Hirschenkogel was named after him.

In August 2017 and July 2018, Pröll suffered bicycle accidents in which he was seriously injured.

Awards

Honorary citizenships

Movies

Publications

literature

Web links

Commons : Erwin Pröll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ landtag-noe.at: Dr. Erwin Pröll. Retrieved January 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ parliament.gv.at: Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Erwin Pröll. Retrieved January 7, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Networks for success: FORMAT shows the circles in which the business elite meet. In: format . March 3, 2006, accessed January 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Peter Rabl: Today it's not just about Erwin Pröll. In: Courier . March 8, 2008. ( kurier.at ( memento of March 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ))
  5. ↑ a b c Gerald John: Head of the Day: Triumphator with many faces. In: The Standard. March 10, 2008.
  6. ↑ a b c d e The People's Tribune with the Train to Power from Radlbrunn. In: Wiener Zeitung . March 9, 2008 (accessed November 7, 2013)
  7. ↑ noe.orf.at: No yielding to the cell phone mast tax.
  8. ↑ futurezone.orf.at: Lower Austria waives mast tax
  9. ↑ a b Oliver Pink : Erwin Pröll - The Putin of St. Pölten. In: The press. March 9, 2008.
  10. ^ Pröll insists on commitments for the elite university at SPÖ, Die Presse March 23, 2007
  11. ↑ Every third worker voted red. In: derStandard.at , March 27, 2008. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  12. ↑ Homepage of the personal committee wir: pröll  ( page no longer available , search in web archives: wir-proell.at )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.wir-proell.at
  13. ^ Pröll is not running for president , press article from October 13, 2009.
  14. ↑ Federal President: VP fan club for Erwin Pröll is growing
  15. ^ Pröll cancels his candidacy as Federal President. In: oe24.at , September 4, 2014. Accessed on May 7, 2015.
  16. ↑ kurier.at - "Hofburg: Pröll does not want to run for Federal President election"
  17. ↑ Pröll: "You have to know where you belong" In: DerStandard.
  18. ↑ Interview with Erwin Pröll on his rejection
  19. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Erwin Pröll resigns in spring . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on January 17, 2017]).
  20. ↑ Successor in Lower Austria fixed: Mikl-Leitner succeeds Pröll as governor. Retrieved January 18, 2014 .
  21. ^ Erwin Pröll became Honorary Consul of Slovenia - noe.ORF.at. Retrieved September 7, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Pröll becomes a consultant for Bulgaria - noe.ORF.at. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Pröll and Mitterlehner sign - news.ORF.at. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Christof Chorherr: Authoritarian, brutal, pre-democratic, Die Presse, February 25, 2008 , accessed on March 11, 2008.
  25. ↑ Gerald John: Head of the Day: Triumphator with many faces , derStandard.at , March 10, 2008.
  26. ↑ Eric Frey: Erwin Pröll scares me. derStandard.at, May 11, 2014.
  27. ↑ Florian Klenk: Secret thing Pröll. Falter, January 10, 2017, accessed March 30, 2017 .
  28. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Landesrechnungshof: Sharp criticism of the Pröll private foundation . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on July 16, 2017]).
  29. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Landesrechnungshof: Sharp criticism of the Pröll private foundation . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on July 16, 2017]).
  30. ↑ Annelise Rohrer; Erwin Pröll, the seducer! The press of June 8, 2014.
  31. ↑ Der Spiegel , edition 30/1995, personal details
  32. ↑ Erwin Pröll seriously injured in a bicycle accident , ORF-online from August 9, 2017.
  33. ↑ Cycle race: Ex-Governor Pröll fell . July 14, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed September 1, 2018]).
  34. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  35. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  36. ^ District administration St. Pölten: Official Journal . Issue No. 18 from September 15, 2010, p. 2.
  37. ^ "Grand Cross" awarded to Pröll on ORF on February 28, 2012.
  38. ↑ LH Pröll received "Stern zum Leopoldskreuz in Gold" from Abbot Primate Backovsky. OTS message No. 0165, Sep 14. 2015.
  39. ^ Embassy> Sofia> News bmeia.gv.at, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, award ceremony on 26./27. April 2016, accessed June 15, 2017.
  40. ↑ If honored: Pröll leaves the future open on ORF from January 16, 2017, accessed on January 16, 2017.
  41. ↑ Ritterspiele: Norbert Hofer and his elite friends in the profile of September 26, 2016, accessed on April 24, 2018.
  42. ↑ Krems in the media of March 12, 2018, accessed on April 25, 2019.
  43. ↑ Governor a. D. Erwin Pröll honorary citizen of St. Pölten . OTS notification dated December 8, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018.
  44. ^ Erwin Pröll: The biographical map. In: Kurier (daily newspaper) . ( kurier.at ( memento from November 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
personal data
SURNAME Pröll, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP) and governor of Lower Austria
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Radlbrunn , Lower Austria