Peter Schieder

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Peter Schieder after receiving the Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Award from ILGLaw (2009)

Peter Schieder (born August 20, 1941 in Vienna ; † October 11, 2013 there ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Peter Schieder attended elementary school and secondary school in Vienna and began studying law , which he did not complete.

Schieder began his professional career as a journalist. He worked as a film critic (1961-1962) and editor (1962-1964) of the journal Nevertheless, the Socialist Youth of Austria (Sjoe). From 1970 to 1973 Schieder was managing director of WVG-Verlag.

Scherer's party career began in the Socialist Youth , of which he was chairman from 1964 to 1972. Schieder was also active as a youth functionary on a European and international level. From 1964 to 1972 he served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Youth International and from 1969 to 1971 as President of the World Youth Assembly.

He then worked until 1984 as the leading city councilor for the environment in the Vienna provincial government . From 1984 to 1988 he was the central secretary of the SPÖ. For many years the politician was a member of the Vienna state party executive and the federal party executive of the SPÖ.

He held a mandate in the Austrian National Council for more than 25 years (1970–1973 and 1984–2006). From 1994 he was the foreign policy spokesman for the SPÖ and chairman of the foreign policy committee of the National Council. When he left the National Council on October 29, 2006, he was the longest serving MP. For 22 years, from 1971 to the end of 1973, and from 1987 to the beginning of 2007, he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , its President from 2002 to 2005, Chairman of its Social Democratic Group from 1995 to 2002 and Honorary President of the Council until his death in 2013 Assembly.

He was also a member of the Board of Trustees (today: Foundation Board ) of ORF for 27 years (1974–2001) .

From 1995 to 2002, Schieder was district chairman of the SPÖ in Vienna- Penzing (14th district) and was replaced in this office by his son Andreas Schieder (* 1969), who at that time was also State Secretary in the Federal Government's Ministry of Finance Faymann I and the SPÖ's top candidate for the 2019 European elections was.

Vienna Central Cemetery: Peter Schieder's grave of honor

In 2004 he was awarded the University of Bucharest , the honorary doctorate of political science . The International Lesbian and Gay Law Association (ILGLaw) presented him with the three-year Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Award for his services on March 14, 2009 at an international conference in West Hollywood . As a young member of the National Council in 1971, he was already instrumental in lifting the total ban on homosexuality in Austria and made LGBTI rights one of his priorities in his inaugural address as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . Since 2008 Peter Schieder has been President of the International Institute for Peace.

Peter Schieder died on October 11, 2013 after a serious illness in Vienna. Federal President Heinz Fischer paid tribute to his childhood friend Schieder in a broadcast. "Democracy, justice and international cooperation" have always been the political leitmotifs of the deceased, said Fischer. Schieder was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c page of the Parliament of the Republic of Austria
  2. ↑ a b c Der Standard: Former SPÖ politician Peter Schieder has died, accessed on October 11, 2013
  3. ↑ Andreas Schieder we SPÖ top candidate. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
  4. ^ ORF Vienna: Peter Schieder died, accessed on October 11, 2013
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Schieder, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2013
Place of death Vienna