Action community

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Action community
AG logo-bund AG-logo-bund-hoch-4c.svg
Federal Chairwoman: Sabine Hanger
Club Chairwoman: Karoline Engstfeld
Executive Director: Martin Schnitzer
Founding: 1982/83
Seat: Vienna (Federal Office)
Website: aktionsgemeinschaft.at

The AktionGemeinschaft (AG) is currently the strongest parliamentary group at the federal level within the Austrian Students' Union (ÖH). It describes itself as independent of parties , but at least at the federal level it is partly close to the ÖVP in terms of content and was also supported financially by it in the 1990s. The current federal chairwoman is Sabine Hanger.

history

The action group was the beginning of the 1980s from the merger of the Austrian People's Party-affiliated Austrian Students Union (ÖSU) with the members of the ACA founded Student Forum forth. The ÖSU, for its part, was part of the “election block”, an electoral alliance of various Christian- conservative associations ( ÖCV , ÖKV ) through merger with the Free Austria. Student Union (FÖSt) emerged. The electoral bloc had dominated the ÖH bodies since it was founded in 1945. In the 1970s, as a result of several splits, there was a temporary loss of ÖSU supremacy. This 1982 merger presumably came under pressure from the ÖVP and the Cartell Association .

The AktionGemeinschaft was able to hold the nationwide ÖH chairmanship from its first election in 1983 until 1995 - and again between 1997 and 2001 - but since its severe electoral defeat in 2001 (from 40.6% to 29.2%) - it had to hold the first ÖH - Elections after the introduction of general tuition fees and the publication of the Court of Auditors' report, which disclosed financial flows from the ÖVP to the AG - mostly accepting the role of the opposition.

In 2004, the AktionGemeinschaft was one of the few parliamentary groups that did not speak out against the abolition of direct elections to the Federal Union of Representatives. As a result of the new electoral arithmetic, it was feared that the number of mandates in the 2005 ÖH elections would be distorted in favor of the AktionGemeinschaft. The opposite happened, however, the VSStÖ benefited from the new electoral mode, the action community lost votes at almost all universities (with a few exceptions, such as the Medical University of Vienna ). After the 2007 ÖH election there was a one-year coalition of Independent Student Council Lists (FLÖ), Greens & Alternative Students (GRAS) and VSStÖ. Halfway through the term of office, the chairman Hartwig Brandls (FLÖ) was voted out and in a turbulent meeting Samir al-Mobayyed was elected as the new chairman and Norbert Köck as the second deputy chairman, which means that the AG chaired the ÖH for a year without a coalition alliance. In the 2009 ÖH election, the AG was able to record its best result since 1999 and further expand its position as the parliamentary group with the largest number of mandates , but was not represented in the executive branch. In the ÖH elections in 2011, 2013 and 2015, the AktionGemeinschaft lost votes, but was able to defend its position as the parliamentary group with the highest number of votes and mandates in the ÖH federal representation.

The action community is said to maintain very close relationships with the Cartell Association (around a third of the AG mandataries in the university representatives also belonged to the CV in 2005), but this is rejected by the AG. The AktionGemeinschaft is a founding member of the European Democrat Students (EDS) and accompanied the XXXV in the summer of 2011 as part of the 50th anniversary of the EDS. Summer University in Vienna.

In the 2019 ÖH election, the action community with Dominik Ramusch ran as its nationwide top candidate and was able to maintain its position as the parliamentary group with the highest number of votes with a slight gain (26.9%), but once again failed to make it into the ÖH executive.

Federal chairmen

The federal chairmen of the Action Community since 1994:

Political position

According to its own statements, the action community stands for an ÖH policy that should only revolve around the interests of the students and not about social policy far away from the universities. It wants to bring the interests of the students to the fore and achieve real improvements in the course. The working group advocates an expansion of the scholarship and subsidy system and cheaper tariffs for long-distance public transport for students. The association is demanding an Austria-wide student ticket at a "fair" price. A central requirement of the association is the funding of Austrian universities and the expansion of third-party funding in order to create enough places in the courses. Another key point is the demand for better mobility during studies (change of study place, semester abroad). There is also a demand for more involvement of students in the decision-making process of the ÖH. This should be made possible on the one hand through direct contact with the students at the universities and on the other hand through regular online surveys.

Election results

Election results in the ÖH elections since 1989:

1989 36.0%
1991 40.1%
1993 44.4%
1995 38.3%
1997 39.8%
1999 40.6%
2001 29.2%
2003 28.8%
2005 24.7%
2007 31.3%
2009 33.3%
2011 30.8%
2013 27.2%
2015 26.7%
2017 26.4%
2019 26.9%

The association at the Austrian universities

The association is represented at six universities in Vienna and at eight others in the other federal states

In addition, the AktionGemeinschaft is represented at the various universities of applied sciences, teaching colleges and private universities:

Well-known former electoral block, ÖSU and AG members

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b ÖH elections 2017: The results. In: FM4.orf.at. Retrieved July 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Report ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Court of Auditors from 2000 (PDF; 135 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rechnungshof.gv.at
  3. ^ Sabine Hanger, first woman at the head of the largest ÖH parliamentary group - derStandard.at. Retrieved September 1, 2019 (Austrian German).
  4. ↑ a b The ÖCV at the universities after 1945. In: oecv.at. Retrieved May 2, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Bernhard Weidinger: 1968 and the reaction (s): New academic culture war and right wing dispute at Austrian universities around 1970. In: Massimiliano Livi, Daniel Schmidt, Michael Sturm (eds.): The 1970s as a black decade. Politicization and mobilization between Christian democracy and the extreme right. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-41011-1 , pp. 147–170, here: p. 155.
  6. ↑ Report ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Court of Auditors from 2000 (PDF; 135 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rechnungshof.gv.at
  7. ↑ Chairing team of the Federal ÖH ( Memento from February 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ derStandard.at: AG provides provisional ÖH chairmanship
  9. ^ Result of the ÖH election 09 - Federal Representation ( Memento from June 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Leonhard Dobusch: Cartell Association: 11,072 men in the conservative relationship network - The Cartell Association (CV) not only plays a role at the Johannes Kepler University , article for the magazine "JKUrsiv" of the student body at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, issue 1, May 2003, PDF 155 kB
  11. ↑ Chilli.cc: "A very sad turnout". Retrieved May 5, 2009 .
  12. ^ Wiener Zeitung : High Noon before the student election. May 18, 2007, accessed November 26, 2013 .
  13. ↑ http://www.edsnet.eu/index.php/summeru/197-summeru-poster (link not available)
  14. ^ Action Community: Left majority prevents the ÖH from starting again. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / aktionsgemeinschaft.at
  16. ↑ Action Community. In: ÖH election Vienna blog. April 27, 2015, archived from the original on April 25, 2015 ; Retrieved January 5, 2015 .
  17. ^ AG: Political position of the action group. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 12, 2015 ; accessed on May 1, 2015 .
  18. ^ Election results of the action group since 1989 ( Memento from April 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ^ ÖH elections 2007: The results. In: FM4.orf.at. Retrieved May 2, 2015 .
  20. ^ ÖH elections 2009: The results. In: FM4.orf.at. Retrieved May 2, 2015 .
  21. ^ ÖH elections 2011: The results. In: FM4.orf.at. Retrieved May 2, 2015 .
  22. ^ ÖH elections 2013: The results. In: FM4.orf.at. Retrieved May 2, 2015 .
  23. ^ ÖH elections 2015: The results. In: FM4.orf.at. Retrieved June 14, 2015 .
  24. ^ ÖH election 2019 results. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
  25. ↑ University groups of the working group ( Memento from May 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  26. ↑ Results of the ÖH election in detail In: derStandard.at. May 16, 2013
  27. ↑ Portrait: Gerfrid Gaigg Austrian Parliament, January 24, 1996
  28. ↑ a b "Kaderschmiede ÖH": What became of the former chairman ( memento from April 8, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, May 24, 2011.
  29. ↑ "I am a product of proportionality" , Der Standard, February 17, 2011.
  30. ^ "An occupant occupies the environmental department" , Der Standard, December 15, 2013.
  31. ^ Studium, Gaudium, Medium ( Memento from April 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  32. ↑ Bourgeois rebel with a large ego , Die Presse, March 15, 2013.
  33. ↑ Neos Federal Managing Director Feri Thierry , Wiener Zeitung , October 3, 2013. Accessed January 27, 2014.
  34. ↑ Biography: Leo Wallner , orf.at, April 11, 2012.
  35. ^ Curriculum vitae of the Governor of Vorarlberg, accessed on March 29, 2013