Erhard Steininger

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Erhard P. Steininger is an Austrian arms lobbyist who received media attention in the course of the Eurofighter affair and was considered a key figure in the Eurofighter committee of inquiry in parliament.

Steininger worked as a lobbyist for the Swedish armaments company Bofors in the 1980s and 1990s , but appeared in 2001 for its competitor EADS .

In April 2007, Steininger refused to testify in the Eurofighter U Committee on the grounds that he feared claims for damages from his former employer EADS under confidentiality agreements.

It later emerged that Steininger had received nearly 17 million euros from EADS between 2002 and 2009. Most of these payments were intentionally made after the end of the 2006/2007 Eurofighter Committee of Inquiry. 7.8 million euros of the sum paid by EADS to Steininger flowed on as an advertising and PR budget to an advertising agency of the FPÖ Federal Managing Director and later BZÖ election campaign manager Gernot Rumpold . This led to suspicion of illegal party financing, which, however, could never be proven. In 2002 Steininger transferred a further 87,600 euros to a bank account of a company owned by the wife of the Air Force Chief Erich Wolf (whose best man Steininger was). A further 28,500 euros went to the FPÖ communications chief Kurt Lukasek via Steininger . In an article in the Wiener Zeitung , Steininger denied all allegations, but admitted that the look was unfavorable.

In 2011 the public prosecutor's office - without having opened bank accounts - stopped the investigation against Steininger, which the legal protection officer assessed as an "unbearable wrong decision".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lobbyist Erhard Steininger collected 17 million euros from EADS ( memento of August 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), in the Wirtschaftsblatt of March 5, 2014, accessed on October 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ Head of the day: EADS consultant Erhard Steininger , in Der Standard of February 22, 2007, accessed on October 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ The optics are of course stupid , in the Wiener Zeitung of July 27, 2007, accessed on October 3, 2015.
  4. ↑ http://www.news.at/a/eurofighter-stellung-war-fehlentendung
personal data
SURNAME Steininger, Erhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steininger, Erhard P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian gun lobbyist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century