Christian Hörl (politician)

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Christian Hörl (born June 23, 1962 in Salzburg ; † January 22, 2020 ) was an Austrian politician ( Die Grünen ), coach, supervisor and project manager. As a politician, Hörl was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 1993 to 2000 and from 1994 to 1999 club chairman of the Greens.

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Christian Hörl was born on June 23, 1962 as the son of the elementary school director Hans Hörl and his wife Hannelore in Salzburg. He grew up in Bruck an der Großglocknerstrasse , where he attended elementary school from 1968 to 1972. He then went to high school in Zell am See , where he graduated in 1980 . Immediately afterwards, he began studying business administration at the University of Innsbruck , which he in 1985 with the graduation graduated to Master of Social and Economic Sciences. The native of Salzburg had already moved to Dornbirn in the state of Vorarlberg in 1984 , where he married his wife Gabriele, a native of Dornbirn, on October 17, 1986. They had a son and a daughter in 1984 and 1988.

From August 1, 1986 to March 31, 1995, Hörl was the managing director of the DOWAS association, which looks after people looking for work and accommodation. In 1989 Christian Hörl joined the Green Alternative Vorarlberg party - one of two Green movements that existed in Vorarlberg at the time. From 1989 to 1991, Hörl completed an apprenticeship as a qualified team supervisor, practice advisor and project manager at the Institute for Applied Psychology in Zurich. On April 14, 1993, he succeeded his party colleague Jutta Kräutler-Berger on her state parliament mandate after she had previously voluntarily resigned from the state parliament. On October 4, 1994, after the state elections , in which the Greens regained club status with three mandates, he was elected by the Green MPs to be their club chairman in the state parliament.

Hörl remained club chairman until October 4, 1999, and member of the state parliament until January 31, 2000. In September 2002, Christian Hörl resigned from the Green Party. From May 2000 he worked as a freelance management consultant based in Lauterach, his adopted home town . During this time, from August 2000 to June 2001, he also worked for a few months as a management consultant at BWI in Dornbirn. In his later work in the field of "coaching, supervision and project support", Hörl was mainly active in the social profit and civil society area and was, among other things, project manager of the dialogue project in the St. Arbogast educational center and co-organizer of the "Projects of Hope" from 2006 to 2016 . Since 2008 he has dealt with approaches such as Dynamic Facilitation , Presencing and Art of Hosting . In this context, he accompanied various citizens' councils and was a member of hosting teams for Art of Hosting training courses and processes. In June 2017 he published the book Imperfectly Perfect. An invitation to a dialogue about the human .

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Individual evidence

  1. Christian Hörl passed away. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . January 24, 2020, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  2. http://www.brueckenschlag.org/brueckenschlag/documents/2010/brueckenschlag20100608000298.pdf Retrieved on July 1, 2015
  3. Martina Kuster: Christian Hörl celebrated life to the end. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). January 28, 2020, accessed January 28, 2020 .