Andreas Babler

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Andreas Babler (born February 25, 1973 in Mödling ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and mayor of the municipality of Traiskirchen. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Triestingtal and Südbahngemeinden water management association together with seven other mayors. He also runs viticulture together with his wife .

Live and act

Babler grew up in a Semperit worker family in the Möllersdorf district of Traiskirchen. He is a trained machine fitter and worked as a shift worker for Vöslauer Mineralwasser AG . On his second educational path , he studied political communication at the Danube University in Krems .

In 1989 he joined the Socialist Youth (SJÖ), soon became state secretary of the SJ in Lower Austria , then federal secretary and subsequently vice-president of the socialist World Youth International (IUSY). Federal secretary he propagated - together with the left mastermind Tibor Zenker - the concept of State Monopolistic capitalism (in short: Stamokap). Thanks to Babler and Zenker, the SJÖ gained the authority to interpret this theory in Austria.

He has been a member of the local council since 1995, eventually becoming a city councilor and in April 2014 mayor of Traiskirchen . In his first election he got the best election result for the SPÖ in Traiskirchen since 1945: 73.1 percent, that is plus 4.2 percent. As a sideline, he and his wife grow wine .

In February 2006 he supported the action conference “No to the Europe of Corporations and Generals! For a neutral, solidarity and cosmopolitan Austria! ”In Linz.

As mayor of the city of Traiskirchen, in which the Traiskirchen refugee camp, which is repeatedly debated both politically and in the media, is arousing a lot of attention from the Austrian media. He attracted national attention not only during his term of office as SJÖ chairman, but also through open criticism of his own party and his clear opposition to the asylum policy of Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner .

In August 2014, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported on the grievances in the asylum reception center in Traiskirchen and quoted Babler: “In view of 8.5 million inhabitants and well over 100 million overnight stays in the tourism sector, the number of 25,000 refugees is currently in the so-called basic services are low. In an interview, he explains that a drama is being held for political reasons. However, the camp in Traiskirchen is simply too big and the political agreement is being permanently broken. ”On May 30, 2015, he issued a fire police notice that the number of refugees in the Traiskirchen refugee camp had to be reduced to 1,400 within four days. "- abolish dormitories accommodate human refugees," a protest of Trai Kirchner public against the asylum policy Mikl-Leitner - On June 9, 2015, it is organized under the theme, including catcalls - before the Interior Ministry in Vienna. He continued to criticize the federal government's refugee policy afterwards.

In June 2015 he founded the party-internal initiative Kompass with representatives of Volkshilfe , the freedom fighters and the socialist youth , which is supposed to help organize the left wing within the SPÖ.

criticism

Babler came under fire after the Lower Austrian FPÖ accused him in March 2016 of receiving a salary as an employee of the city of Traiskirchen in addition to his salary as mayor. Although this is legally acceptable, it is morally reprehensible. Then Babler gave up his job.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Water pipeline association of the Triestingtal and Südbahn communities. Retrieved March 31, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Our newspaper: Traiskirchen voted on January 25, 2015.
  3. ^ Falter : Action Conference ( Memento of March 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on June 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ Conny Bischofberger: How angry are you, Mr. Mayor? In: Kronen Zeitung . November 15, 2014, accessed June 3, 2015 .
  5. ^ Katrin Burgstaller: Andreas Babler - the contentious mayor of Traiskirchen. In: The Standard . July 30, 2014, accessed June 3, 2015 .
  6. ↑ NZZ : Between Asylum Emergency and Summer Theater , August 20, 2014.
  7. ^ Lower Austrian news : Uprising after fire . May 31, 2015.
  8. ↑ Die Presse : Traiskirchen: Ministry of the Interior messes with the mayor , May 31, 2015
  9. ^ ORF : Asylum: Traiskirchen demo in front of the Ministry of the Interior . June 9, 2015.
  10. ↑ ATV : Traiskirchen - The forgotten camp , plain text from November 16, 2015, accessed on June 11, 2016
  11. ^ Initiative Kompass ; accessed on August 7, 2015
  12. ↑ "Freedom Party criticized" Körberlgeld "for Mayor Babler" standard of 26 March 2016 called on April 2, 2016th
  13. ^ "Debate on privileges: Andreas Babler's double damage" in the Standard from March 29, 2016, accessed on April 2, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Babler, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), mayor of the Traiskirchen community
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling