Clemens Martin Auer

Clemens-Martin Auer (2017)

Clemens-Martin Auer (* 1957 in Miesenbach in Lower Austria ) is the special representative for health in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health .

Life

Auer studied philosophy and political science at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1991 with Norbert Leser .

From 1993 to 2003 he was head of the Political Department of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), first under Vice Chancellor Erhard Busek and later under Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, and then Head of Cabinet of Health Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat in the Federal Ministry for Health and Women (BMGF) . From 2005 to 2018 he headed Section I (Health System, Central Coordination) in the Federal Ministry of Health. From 2006 to 2009 he was chairman of the steering committee of the working group ELGA ( electronic health record ), since December 2009 chairman of the coordination committee of ELGA GmbH; As owner representative of the republic, member of the general assemblies of the Agency for Health and Food Safety AGES and Gesundheit Österreich GmbH and from May 2012 to 2018 elected chairman of the eHealth Network of the European Union, an association of the heads of authorities responsible for the dissemination of eHealth in Europe. Until September 2018, Auer was the managing director of the Federal Health Agency (Federal Health Commission and Federal Target Control Commission) and chairman of the fund for financing the private hospitals PRIKRAF. As section head in the Ministry of Health, he was the central sponsor and architect of all major structural policy reforms in the Austrian health system until 2018. His last reform work for the time being is the Primary Care Act passed by Parliament in June 2017, which aims to ensure interdisciplinary and multi-professional basic medical care.

With the merger of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in 2018 by Minister Beate Hartinger-Klein , Auer was appointed special representative for health. In September 2018 he was nominated by the WHO European Regional Committee for the period 2019 to 2022 to the Executive Council of the World Health Organization in Geneva. In addition, he is Austria's official candidate for the position of Regional Director of WHO Europe.

Auer has been President of the European Healthforum Gastein, an interdisciplinary European health conference in which the European Commission, WHO and the Austrian Ministry of Health are involved, since 2017.

Auer was awarded the Great Silver Medal of Honor with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (2014) and the Golden Ring of Honor of the Austrian Social Insurance (2018) for his special services .

He is a member of the Catholic student associations K.Ö.St.V. Asciburgia Oberschützen (since 1972) in the MKV , KÖHV Carolina Graz (since 1978) and KaV Norica Vienna (since 1983) in the ÖCV .

literature

• University and Democracy in Austria. On empirical and theoretical relevance , Manz'sche, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-214-07290-0 , together with Georg Feith, Walter H. Rechberger
• The modernism crisis of Catholicism. Human rights, democracy, the revolution of 1848 and the Catholic Church , in: Helmut Wohnout (Ed.), Demokratie und Geschichte. Yearbook of the Karl von Vogelsang Institute for Research into the History of Christian Democracy in Austria, Vienna - Cologne - Weimar 2 (1998), 118–142
• The modernism crisis of Catholicism (part 2). Autonomous freedom vs. Theonomous Truth: The Catholic Magisterium in Conflict with Freedom of Expression and Religion , in: ibid. 3 (1999), 197-200.
• May 1, 2000 - Day of New Work , ÖAAB-Bundesleitung Vienna, 2000 (Sociopolitical Information 79), together with Norbert Hartl
• This time. Analyzes on the National Council election 2002 , Molden Verlag Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85485-094-8 , together with Michael Fleischhacker

Web links

• Literature by and about Clemens Martin Auer in the catalog of the German National Library