ÖVP Burgenland
| Burgenland People's Party | |
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| State party chairman: | Christian Sagartz |
| Club chairman: | Markus Ulram |
| Country Managing Director: | Patrik Fazekas |
| National Council / Federal Council: | Nikolaus Berlakovich |
| Headquarters: | Eisenstadt |
| Website : | oevp-burgenland.at |
The Burgenland People's Party is the regional organization of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) in the state of Burgenland and a registered party according to the Political Parties Act 2012. The ÖVP currently holds eleven seats in the Burgenland state parliament and provides the second state parliament president, three members of the National Council and Bernhard Hirczy, a federal councilor .
organization
The ÖVP Burgenland, like the federal party, is structured both territorially and functionally. It is formed by a regional organization with its headquarters in Eisenstadt . This in turn is represented by seven citizens' offices in the district suburbs as well as by community and local party organizations in the communities. Functionally, the ÖVP Burgenland has a bundled structure.
history
Rebuilding the country
In 1945 political parties were founded nationwide in Austria. At that time, a group was formed in the area of the former Burgenland under the leadership of the former Christian social politician Lorenz Karall , which, together with representatives of the SPÖ and KPÖ, campaigned for the re-establishment of the Burgenland. From the circle around Karall, which among others Johann Habeler , Adalbert Riedl , Josef Lentsch u. a. belonged, the ÖVP Burgenland was created. In the course of the first democratic elections in the Second Republic on November 25, 1945, the ÖVP emerged as the strongest party in Burgenland with 51.7 percent in the national, regional and local council elections. In 1946 the Landtag elected Karall as governor of Burgenland. Supported by pragmatic cooperation between the ÖVP and the SPÖ, the development in the country was advanced.
In 1956 Karall handed over his office to the then President of the Chamber of Commerce, Johann Wagner . During his term of office in 1958, the Burgenland Electricity Corporation (BEWAG, now Energie Burgenland) was founded. Wagner remained governor until 1961. His successor, the teacher Josef Lentsch , placed an emphasis on educational policy in his political work. In about two decades the ÖVP Burgenland lost the majority in the state parliament in the state elections in 1964 and subsequently also the office of governor.
Driving economic party
The ÖVP Burgenland, which from then on occupied the position of Deputy Governor as the second force in the state, was committed as a government partner above all to the economy and agriculture. She called for the country's debt to be contained.
In the 1968 elections, the SPÖ achieved an absolute majority in Burgenland, which it held under Governor Theodor Kery until 1982. A state election order passed by the SPÖ and FPÖ in 1976 was repealed as unconstitutional in 1978 at the objection of the ÖVP Burgenland, and negotiations were only resumed in 1979 under the new ÖVP Deputy Governor Franz Sauerzopf . The change in the electoral code was decided in 1981 and included an increase in the number of government members from 6 to 7 and the number of state parliament mandates from 32 to 36. In response to the scandal surrounding the East Housing Cooperative in 1982 and its chairman and ÖVP member of the state parliament Ernst Rauchwarter , Deputy Governor Franz Sauerzopf took over responsibility and resigned from his office. In 1987 he returned as Deputy Governor and led the party in the state elections, in which the SPÖ lost an absolute majority. Due to the distribution of seats between 17 (SPÖ) and 16 (ÖVP), the parties agreed in preliminary talks to elect Franz Sauerzopf as governor. Ultimately, the agreement broke because a member of parliament voted against Sauerzopfs in the secret election.
In 1993, Gerhard Jellasitz succeeded Franz Sauerzopf in the role of Deputy Governor . Austria joined the European Union in the era of Gerhard Jellasitz. In Burgenland, 66.6 percent of the population voted in favor of joining the EU in 1994. The EU membership triggered a wide range of subsidies, which were invested in Burgenland as a business location on the one hand and ÖPUL subsidies on the other to strengthen agriculture and the environment.
After the state elections in 2000, in which the SPÖ made gains, despite the resignation of Governor Karl Stix (SPÖ), while the ÖVP recorded losses, Gerhard Jellasitz (ÖVP) resigned. He was followed by Franz Steindl (ÖVP), under whose leadership the party again won votes in 2005. The SPÖ achieved an absolute majority. At the instigation of the young ÖVP, 16-year-olds were entitled to vote in a state election in Austria for the first time in 2005. Two years later, voting from 16 was decided at the federal level.
As part of the coalition between the SPÖ and ÖVP that was concluded after the 2010 state elections, the new state constitution - which has been in work since 1998 - was passed in 2014. Like the Tourism Act 2015, it came into force.
The coalition of the SPÖ with the FPÖ Burgenland after the state elections in 2015 ended the cooperation between the SPÖ and ÖVP. Up to this year the ÖVP had appointed the Deputy Governor and between 1987 and 2000 the first President of the State Parliament. Since leaving the government, the ÖVP Burgenland has formed the opposition party with the most votes in the state parliament. The chairman of the ÖVP Burgenland has been Eisenstadt's mayor Thomas Steiner since 2015 , Christoph Wolf has held the position of regional manager since then , and Christian Sagartz has been the chairman of the ÖVP Burgenland .
After the state elections in 2020 , Christian Sagartz succeeded Thomas Steiner as ÖVP chairman, Markus Ulram became ÖVP club chairman in the state parliament, and Patrik Fazekas took over the state management from Christoph Wolf.
Members of the Federal Government
With Franz Soronics (ÖVP) the first Burgenlander was sworn in as a member of the federal government in 1963. Soronics was first State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior and from 1968 to 1970 Minister of the Interior. From 1987 to 1989 the former Burgenland Chamber of Commerce President Robert Graf (ÖVP) held the office of Minister of Economics, Nikolaus Berlakovich (ÖVP) was Federal Minister for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management from 2008 to 2013. Berlakovich currently represents the ÖVP Burgenland together with Gabriela Schwarz and Christoph Zarits in the Austrian National Council.
Provincial party leader of the ÖVP Burgenland since 1945
- 1945–1963: Lorenz Karall
- 1963–1968: Josef Lentsch
- 1968–1978: Franz Soronics
- 1978–1982: Franz Sauerzopf
- 1982–1985: Rudolf Grohotolsky
- 1985–1991: Franz Sauerzopf
- 1991–2001: Gerhard Jellasitz
- 2001–2015: Franz Steindl
- 2015–2020: Thomas Steiner
- from 2020: Christian Sagartz
Governors and Deputies
- Governor Lorenz Karall (1945–1956)
- Governor Johann Wagner (1956–1961)
- Governor Josef Lentsch (1961–1964)
- LH Deputy Reinhold Polster (1964–1972)
- LH Deputy Franz Sauerzopf (1978–1982)
- LH Deputy Rudolf Grohotolsky (1982–1986)
- LH Deputy Franz Sauerzopf (1986-1993)
- LH Deputy Gerhard Jellasitz (1993–2000)
- LH Deputy Franz Steindl (2000-2015)
Election results ÖVP Burgenland since 1945
| year | % | Top candidate |
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| 1945 | 51.8 | Lorenz Karall |
| 1949 | 52.6 | Lorenz Karall |
| 1953 | 48.4 | Lorenz Karall |
| 1956 | 49.2 | Lorenz Karall |
| 1960 | 48.1 | Johann Wagner |
| 1964 | 47.3 | Josef Lentsch |
| 1968 | 46.6 | Reinhold Polster |
| 1972 | 45.9 | Franz Soronics |
| 1977 | 45.1 | Franz Soronics |
| 1982 | 43.0 | Franz Sauerzopf |
| 1987 | 41.5 | Franz Sauerzopf |
| 1991 | 38.2 | Franz Sauerzopf |
| 1996 | 36.1 | Gerhard Jellasitz |
| 2000 | 35.3 | Gerhard Jellasitz |
| 2005 | 36.4 | Franz Steindl |
| 2010 | 34.6 | Franz Steindl |
| 2015 | 29.1 | Franz Steindl |
| 2020 | 30.6 | Thomas Steiner |
Sub-organizations
The ÖVP Burgenland is - like the federal organization - organized in groups that act financially autonomously. They are each headed by a chairperson.
The leagues and their stewards in Burgenland:
ÖAAB Burgenland
Chairman Christian Sagartz
Burgenland farmers' union
Chairman DI Nikolaus Berlakovich
ÖVP women
Chairwoman Gabriele Hafner
Burgenland Economic Association
Chairman Peter Nemeth
ÖSB Burgenland
Chairman Kurt Korbatits
JVP Burgenland
Chairman Patrik Fazekas
The Burgenland Association of Municipalities, whose president is Leo Radakovits, acts as a representation of the interests of the Burgenland municipalities vis-à-vis the state and federal government. The educational institution of the Burgenland ÖVP community politicians is the Burgenland Municipal Academy .
Individual evidence
- ^ ÖVP Burgenland: Yellow becomes turquoise . April 25, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 24, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c d Christian Sagartz new ÖVP chairman. In: ORF.at . February 20, 2020, accessed February 20, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Millendorfer and Markus Wagentristl: Everything new at the ÖVP: Sagartz and Fazekas instead of Steiner and Wolf. In: Burgenland People's Newspaper . February 20, 2020, accessed February 20, 2020 .
- ↑ a b National councils are sworn in . November 9, 2017 ( orf.at [accessed July 24, 2018]).
- ↑ Robert Kriechbaumer, Franz Schausberger: People's Party - Claim and Reality. On the history of the ÖVP since 1945 . Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1995, pp. 490-495 .
- ↑ Roland Widder: People's Party in Burgenland 1945-1995 .
- ↑ Brigitte Krizsanits: Burgenland. Diversity shapes. Eisenstadt 2015, p. 9-15 .
- ↑ MPs. Retrieved July 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Brigitte Krizsanits: Burgenland. Diversity shapes. Eisenstadt 2015, p. 10-15 .
- ↑ Brigitte Krizsanits: Burgenland. Diversity shapes . Eisenstadt 2015, p. 185 .
- ↑ Team, sub-organizations. Retrieved March 31, 2015 .