Elmar Podgorschek

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Elmar Podgorschek (2017)

Elmar Podgorschek (born January 7, 1958 in Ried im Innkreis ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ ). Podgorschek was Provincial Councilor in Upper Austria from October 23, 2015 to May 20, 2019 .

education and profession

Elmar Podgorschek attended elementary school for four years and grammar school for four years before completing a five-year training course at the commercial academy in Ried im Innkreis. After graduating from the commercial academy, Podgorschek did his military service as a one-year volunteer . Since 1997 he has been captain of the militia. In 1979 Podgorschek graduated from a college for technical chemistry in Vienna. Since 1982 he has been employed and managing partner in the family-owned paint trading company. Through his economic commitment Podgorschek was awarded the title of Commercial Council.

Political activity

Podgorschek began his political career in community politics at an early age. In 1976 he was regional youth representative of the RFJ , at the same time a member of the Ried district party leadership as youth representative and since then has been a member of this committee. Since 1991 he has been a member of the municipal council of the municipality of Ried im Innkreis . From 1995 to 2005 he was a city councilor and from 1997 to 2003 he was elected deputy mayor of the municipality of Ried im Innkreis. Podgorschek has also been the district party chairman of the FPÖ Ried im Innkreis since 1999. Since 2006 he has been the regional party chairman of the FPÖ Upper Austria and a member of the federal party board of the FPÖ.

As a result of his technical and chemical training, Podgorschek became a member of the regional committee for the trade in pharmaceuticals, drugstore and perfumery goods , as well as chemicals and paints (H3) of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce . Podgorschek is also a member of the Federal Committee H3 of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce .

From October 23, 2009 he was a member of the Federal Council , initially non-attached and from November 5, 2009 in the free parliamentary group. Podgorschek was sworn in on October 21, 2010 as the successor to Lutz Weinzinger, a member of the National Council (XXIV GP), who had left the day before . In the parliamentary club of the FPÖ, Podgorschek was responsible for finance. In the National Council itself he was deputy chairman in the finance committee and secretary in the sub-committee of the national defense committee. Since October 29, 2010, he has been a member of the Budget and Finance Committee.

From October 23, 2015, he was regional councilor in the regional government of Pühringer V and the regional government of Stelzer , responsible for security (especially disaster control, fire services and fire police), administrative police, citizenship, community supervision and water management.

Podgorschek is since 1972 member of the German national beating high school connection AcSV! Germania zu Ried im Innkreis .

Since he was also responsible for fire services as a regional councilor in 2015, he has also been a member of the Ried im Innkreis volunteer fire service, where he also completed basic training.

On May 20, 2019, he announced his resignation in connection with the Ibiza affair , and Wolfgang Klinger was nominated as his successor the next day .

Controversies and relationship to right-wing extremism

In 1998 Podgorschek thanked the right-wing extremist monthly newspaper “Aula” in a letter to the editor for her “excellent work that she is doing for our community of faith”. Also in 2009 Podgorschek appeared as a letter writer. Now he thanked the auditorium and “their editors [...] for their faithfulness”. The paper represents “a thorn in the almost synchronized Austrian media landscape”, which is much to the annoyance of the “do-gooders” who would prefer to withdraw “all non-conformist media their license to write”.

In January 2012, Podgorschek wore his army uniform at a ball of the Vienna Corporations Ring, despite a uniform ban previously imposed by the then Defense Minister Norbert Darabos . Podgorschek therefore had to pay a fine, but his appeal to the Independent Administrative Senate was rejected. In June 2018, at an AfD event in Thuringia , Podgorschek described the Austrian judiciary as “completely left-wing”, warned against the ÖVP and called for the ORF to be “neutralized” . Podgorschek's statements were described by constitutional lawyer Theo Öhlinger and political scientist Kathrin Stainer-Hämmerle as a targeted attack on democracy or a shattering of confidence in the most important institutions of parliamentary democracy. The Greens and the SPÖ Upper Austria demanded Podgorschek's resignation and brought a corresponding motion to the Upper Austrian state parliament , where it was rejected on July 5, 2018. The FPÖ MP Alexander Nerat defended Podgorschek: the statements were "pointed".

Private

Podgorschek is married and has two daughters and a son.

Web links

Commons : Elmar Podgorschek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parliament website: Who is who . Retrieved January 27, 2011
  2. ^ Website of the parliamentary club of the FPÖ . Retrieved January 27, 2011.
  3. ^ Website My Members: Association activities of the Member of Parliament Elmar Podgorschek . Retrieved September 25, 2013.
  4. ↑ website of the Pan-German conservative semestral connection Germania Ried: explanations of the German nation . Retrieved September 25, 2013.
  5. ↑ The regional council in the troop leader course in the Rundschau of October 10, 2016, accessed on July 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ Simone Leonhartsberger, Peter Prantner, Armin Sattler, Valentin Simettinger, Guido Tiefenthaler: Next crisis meeting: Kurz meets Van der Bellen and Kickl. May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019 .
  7. ^ FPÖ State Security Council resigns. May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019 .
  8. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance: FPÖ politicians at "Aula" and "K IV" , June 1998
  9. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance: Romig on the "Jewish revolutionary" , December 2009
  10. ^ Die Presse: Uniform ban at WKR-Ball: FP-Mandatar wants before VfGH , January 8, 2013
  11. ↑ https://diepresse.com/home/innenpolitik/5452486/Oberoesterreich_SPOe- sucht-Podgorschek-nach-Rede-bei-AfD- zum , Die Presse, June 23, 2018
  12. ↑ http://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/politik/landespolitik/Nachbeben-nach-Podgorscheks-Auftritt-Angriff-auf-Saeulen-der-Demokratie;art383,2931965 , Upper Austria. News, June 23, 2018
  13. ↑ https://derstandard.at/2000081945183/Gruene-starten-Petition-gegen-FPOe-Landesrat-Podgorschek , Der Standard, June 20, 2018
  14. ↑ State Parliament: Request for resignation with no impact on ooe.orf.at, accessed on July 5, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Podgorschek, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the National Council, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ried im Innkreis