Christian Hafenecker

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Christian Hafenecker (2019)
Christian Hafenecker (2012)
Christian Hafenecker at the National Council's lectern in 2014

Christian Hafenecker (born August 11, 1980 in Mödling , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ ). From May 2018 to January 2020, he was one of the two general secretaries of the FPÖ alongside Harald Vilimsky .

Hafenecker was a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament from 2010 to 2013 and a member of the Federal Council for half a year in 2013 . Since October 2013 he has been a member of the Austrian National Council . From 2013 to 2018 he was state party secretary of the FPÖ Lower Austria .

Life

After finishing secondary school in Hainfeld, Hafenecker attended the military high school in Wiener Neustadt and then began training as an agricultural machine technician. He put 2002 Berufsreifeprüfung and studied a few semesters of law at the University of Vienna . In 2014 he completed the FH course in Leadership, Politics and Management at the FH Campus Wien with the certification as a Master of Arts in Political Management (MA), which does not correspond to the academic degree of the same name Master of Arts (MA).

From April 2008 to March 2011, Hafenecker was the regional press officer of the FPÖ Lower Austria. He became a member of the Lilienfeld district management in 1999 and was elected to the municipal council of the market town of Kaumberg in 2000. From 2006 to January 2018 he was the executive councilor. Furthermore, he was regional chairman of the Ring of Freedom Youth from 2001 to 2003 and executive FPÖ district party chairman in the Lilienfeld district from 2003 to 2005, before he was elected FPÖ district party chairman in 2005. In 2005 he also took over the role of local party chairman of the Kaumberg local group, and in 2008 he became a member of the regional party executive of the FPÖ Lower Austria. On July 1, 2010, he was sworn in after Karl Schwab's departure as a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament. There he was responsible for the national defense, municipal, youth and aviation departments.

On April 24, 2013, he moved to the Federal Council as a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament and was also state party secretary of the FPÖ Lower Austria from 2013 until his appointment as FPÖ General Secretary in 2018. Michael Schnedlitz succeeded him in this role on September 19, 2018 . At the regional party conference of the FPÖ Lower Austria on June 30, 2018, he was elected deputy regional party chairman.

In the National Council election on September 29, 2013 , Hafenecker was able to obtain a basic mandate in his constituency of Lower Austria Central , which he accepted at the constituent meeting of the National Council on October 29. In the current National Council, he is the deputy chairman of the Transport Committee and the Committee on Petitions and Citizens' Issues. He is also a member of the National Defense, Building and Science Committee. He is also involved in the South Tyrol sub-committee for the dual citizenship of South Tyrolean citizens.

Hafenecker has been FPÖ area spokesman for petitions and public concerns since September 2014. Furthermore, in 2014 he was a member of the award commission for the restructuring of parliament and is now active on its successor body, the user advisory board. As a member of the Enquete Commission on Direct Democracy, the MP is working on integrating citizen participation more closely into political decision-making processes. In January 2015, Christian Hafenecker was nominated as one of four FPÖ members for the Hypo Investigation Committee alongside the then parliamentary group leader Elmar Podgorschek and the other MPs Gernot Darmann and Walter Rauch . With Elmar Podgorschek's move to the Upper Austrian provincial government and the appointment of Gernot Darmann as FPÖ parliamentary group leader, Hafenecker took over the role of deputy parliamentary group leader of the liberal team in the investigation committee in December 2015.

In the 2017 National Council elections, Hafenecker was again able to achieve a basic mandate. In November 2017, Hafenecker was the Freedom Party’s chief negotiator for the transport and infrastructure sector, and after the FPÖ joined the federal government, he was also appointed transport spokesman for his parliamentary group. In December 2017 he was also elected chairman of the parliamentary committee for research, innovation and technology as well as digitization.

In May 2018 he succeeded Marlene Svazek as FPÖ General Secretary . In January 2020, the withdrawal of Harald Vilimsky and Christian Hafenecker as General Secretaries of the FPÖ became known, and Michael Schnedlitz was elected as his successor on January 30, 2020 .

Private life

Hafenecker lives in Kaumberg with his wife and their children . He is old man of the Nibelungia fraternity in Vienna, a member federation of the German fraternity .

Publications

Web links

Commons : Christian Hafenecker  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Hafenecker new FPÖ General Secretary . In: news.ORF.at . May 14, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed May 15, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Landbauer also executive party leader . September 19, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed September 19, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Master's degrees in further education. Retrieved January 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Landbauer also executive party leader . September 19, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed September 19, 2018]).
  5. ↑ orf.at: Christian Hafenecker new FPÖ General Secretary . Article dated May 14, 2018, accessed May 14, 2018.
  6. ↑ Michael Schnedlitz becomes the new FPÖ General Secretary. In: Wiener Zeitung . January 8, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Schnedlitz unanimously elected FPÖ General Secretary. In: Upper Austrian news . January 30, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hafenecker, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling