Christian Ragger

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Christian Ragger (born February 20, 1973 in Wolfsberg ) is an Austrian lawyer and politician ( FPÖ , formerly FPK and BZÖ ). From 1999 to 2009 he was a member of the Carinthian state parliament and from 2009 to 2016 a regional councilor. From April 2013 to April 2016 he was party chairman of the FPK, which became FPÖ Carinthia again in June 2013. He has been a member of the Austrian National Council since November 9, 2017 .

education and profession

Ragger attended elementary school in Wolfsberg and from 1983 to 1987 graduated from the private collegiate high school in Sankt Paul im Lavanttal . He then moved to the BORG Wolfsberg and graduated from there in 1991 . Ragger studied law at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and completed a year abroad from 1994 to 1995 at the law faculty of the University of Teramo . In March 1997 he completed his studies with the academic degree Mag. Jur. from. He began his political career while studying in the Ring of Freedom Students . Ragger was in a fraternity ( scouting fox ), but according to his own information he was never a member of a beating fraternity .

Ragger is a partner in the Wolfsberg law firm Poganitsch, Fejan & Partner Rechtsanwälte GmbH , formerly Poganitsch & Ragger. His activity in the law firm, as well as his participation in the company, he put on hold when he joined the state government in 2009. According to research by the Austrian news magazine profil , between 2010 and 2013 regional contracts with a volume of around 400,000 euros were awarded to a number of companies that are “noticeably close to Ragger's law firm”. Ragger rejected the allegations against the APA and announced a complaint against unknown persons for abuse of authority and data abuse .

politics

Ragger was sworn in as a representative of the FPÖ in the Carinthian state parliament on April 8, 1999, but in the course of the split in the party, like almost all Carinthian state parliament members, he switched to the BZÖ. In the 29th legislative period, Ragger is chairman of the committee for legal, constitutional, ethnic group and immunity matters, Europe and area spokesman for the BZÖ state parliamentary club for social affairs and spatial planning.

Ragger, who moved to Frantschach in 2008 , ran for the local council in the 2009 municipal council elections . He was the BZÖ's top candidate for the 2009 state elections in the Wolfsberg district and is the BZÖ district party leader. Ragger has been the Carinthian regional party chairman since November 2005 and was re-elected in 2008. Since the new government was formed after the state elections in 2009, he has been a member of the state council.

After a severe loss of votes in the Carinthian state elections on March 3, 2013 , Kurt Scheuch resigned as chairman of the FPK, and Ragger was appointed managing party chairman until the next party congress. Since March 28, 2013 was Ragger Minister for Legal Affairs, hunting and national parks in the state government Emperor I .

Without a mandate or a government resolution, Ragger agreed with the Sigmund Freud Private University to set up a medical university in Klagenfurt. The subsequent government did not pursue the project any further and a legal dispute broke out with the Sigmund Freud University.

On April 5, 2016, Ragger announced that he would resign as a member of the state council and relinquish the party leadership. On June 4, 2016, Gernot Darmann was elected as the successor to Christian Ragger as the Carinthian regional party leader of the FPÖ. On June 23, 2016, Darmann was sworn in as the successor to Ragger as Carinthian Provincial Councilor .

Infidelity proceedings

In June 2015, the public prosecutor brought a criminal complaint against Ragger on suspicion of attempted infidelity. At Ragger's request, the proceedings were discontinued as part of a diversion against payment of a fine.

Private

Ragger is married and has a son and a daughter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kleine Zeitung : Personal details, January 14, 2004
  2. ↑ Kurt Scheuch resigns - Ragger becomes successor on derstandard.at , accessed on March 4, 2013
  3. ↑ Katrin Burgstaller: Ragger: Slovenian dangerous in the state parliament, but good for your own son on derstandard.at, April 22, 2013, accessed on January 12, 2014
  4. ↑ Martin Fritzl, Andreas Wetz: Modern, cosmopolitan, not national: An atypical freedom man should get the FPK back on track on diepresse.com , March 4, 2013, accessed on January 12, 2014
  5. ↑ Poganitsch, Fejan & Partner Rechtsanwälte GmbH: Mag. Christian Ragger ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 12, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ragger.at
  6. ↑ a b Ulla Kramar-Schmid , Michael Nikbakhsh: FPÖ regional councilor Christian Ragger awarded contracts worth almost 400,000 euros to his office environment on profil.at, January 11, 2014, accessed on January 12, 2014
  7. ↑ a b c kurier.at : FP-Ragger suspected of placing orders , January 11, 2014, accessed on January 12, 2014
  8. ↑ FP Provincial Councilor Ragger is said to have placed orders with related companies on derstandard.at, January 11, 2014, accessed on January 12, 2014
  9. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Next election causes surprises, September 28, 2008
  10. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: BZÖ candidates for state elections, November 9, 2008
  11. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: According to Haider, BZÖ also claims leadership, November 16, 2008
  12. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Election results, November 27, 2005
  13. ↑ Kurt Scheuch resigns as FPK boss - Ragger becomes his successor. In: derstandard.at . March 4, 2013, accessed on March 25, 2013 (German).
  14. ^ ORF: Peter Kaiser elected governor, accessed on March 28, 2013
  15. ^ Wiener Zeitung: The division of units in the Carinthian provincial government, accessed on March 28, 2013
  16. ^ Sigmund Freud University sues the state of Carinthia. APA / The standard. 4th October 2013
  17. ^ Province of Carinthia demands money back from Sigmund Freud University . APA / The standard. October 7, 2013
  18. ↑ Ragger resigns from FPÖ top. In: ORF . April 5, 2016, accessed April 5, 2016 .
  19. ↑ orf.at - FPÖ: Darmann wants to become governor . Article dated June 4, 2016, accessed June 4, 2016.
  20. ↑ orf.at - Darmann sworn in as regional councilor . Article dated June 23, 2016, accessed June 23, 2016.
  21. ^ ORF : Criminal complaint against Christian Ragger , June 24, 2015
  22. ^ ORF : Infidelity proceedings: Diversion for Ragger , September 25, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Ragger, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPK, BZÖ, BZÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH 20th February 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsberg