Christoph Platzgummer

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Christoph Platzgummer

Christoph Platzgummer (born October 5, 1961 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and has been the district captain of Kufstein since 2015 .

Life

Family and youth

After attending the elementary school in Mariahilf and the ski school in Neustift , he graduated from the ski school in Stams in 1980 . In 1980 he joined the security guard of the federal police headquarters a Innsbruck.

Platzgummer has been married since 1983 and has two daughters.

Career

He graduated from the Federal Administration Academy in Vienna and began working for the city of Innsbruck in 1987, where he worked in the district administration department . a. was responsible for trade law. During his service, his own office for residency matters had to be set up, which he took over in parallel to running the trade office. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Innsbruck and passed the service examination at the Administration Academy of the State of Tyrol. After various engagements in project groups, commissions and specialist committees, he became the deputy municipal director . On May 1, 2003, he took over the management of the city council of Innsbruck .

Political career

He ran for the first time in the municipal council elections in 2006 on list position 2. In the constituent meeting of the municipal council on May 8, 2006 he was elected second vice mayor of the city of Innsbruck .

In this role, he was involved in the realization of the football academy, the organization of the Special Olympics , the initiation of the training center for young people on Patscherkofel and the world's first youth Olympic Games .

In 2009, Platzgummer moved to the future office of the state of Tyrol after he had resigned as Vice Mayor due to alleged financial inconsistencies that arose under his leadership during the European Football Championship in 2008 . Subsequently, he took over the regional development and future strategy department in the office of the Tyrolean provincial government.

In 2012 he surprisingly returned to politics and ran as the top candidate for the office of Mayor of Innsbruck on the list of the Innsbruck People's Party . In the municipal council elections in April, he led his list to the party with the highest number of votes, with around 22 percent of the votes, but in the direct mayor election with 28 percent of the vote, it was just behind incumbent Christine Oppitz-Plörer . He was defeated in the runoff election, in which he received 44% of the vote and the governing mayor, Oppitz-Plörer, 56% of the vote. The ÖVP was pushed back to the opposition bench for the first time since 1945. Platzgummer ran for the constituent meeting of the municipal council on April 16, 2012 as 1st and 2nd Vice Mayor, but was subject to the candidates of the "traffic light coalition". He held the office of a non-executive city council in the city senate of the Innsbruck city government. For reasons of a clean separation of his job as a civil servant, he put his political offices on hold in 2014.

In February 2015, Platzgummer was appointed district captain in Kufstein.

Web links

Commons : Christoph Platzgummer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lukas Ivo Matošević: Management of major sporting events , page 74 ff. Diplomica Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3836672863
  2. ↑ Innsbruck's Vice Mayor resigns , orf.at of May 22, 2009, accessed on April 17, 2012
  3. ↑ https://www.tirol.gv.at/mektiven/meldung/artikel/christoph-platzgummer-neuer-bezirkshauptmann/
personal data
SURNAME Platzgummer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP)
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck