Ernest Windholz

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Ernest Windholz (born June 4, 1960 in Hainburg an der Donau ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ / BZÖ ), former member of the Austrian National Council , former Federal Councilor and former mayor of Bad Deutsch-Altenburg .

Life

Windholz attended elementary school in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg from 1966 to 1970 and the secondary school in Hainburg from 1970 to 1974. He then switched to the polytechnic course in Bruck an der Leitha and attended the office school in Bruck an der Leitha between 1974 and 1975. From 1979 to 1980 Windholz did his military service.

Windholz worked as an employee between 1976 and 1980 and has been a customs guard since 1981. In 1997 he was promoted to district inspector.

Windholz has been married since 1980 and has three children.

politics

Ernest Windholz was elected local group chairman of the FPÖ in 1992 and has been a managing member of the municipal council of Bad Deutsch-Altenburg since 1995. Since 2005 he has been the club spokesman for List Team Ernest Windholz - Party Free and Freedom Party . His portfolio includes freight roads and land protection. He has also been the staff representative of the AUF voter group since 1991 and since 1995 the AUF staff representative in the Central Customs Service Committee at the Federal Ministry of Finance .

Windholz represented the FPÖ and the Province of Lower Austria from April 16, 1998 to October 28, 1999 in the Federal Council and from October 29, 1999 to June 27, 2000 in the National Council. He then moved to the Lower Austrian state parliament , where he represented the FPÖ from 2000 to 2001. Between 2001 and 2003 he was a member of the Provincial Council of Lower Austria .

Within the party, Windholz was district party chairman of the FPÖ Bruck an der Leitha from 1993 and from 1999 to 2000 the executive regional party chairman of the FPÖ Lower Austria. Between 2000 and 2003 he also acted as regional party chairman of the FPÖ Lower Austria.

In August 2008, Windholz resigned from the FPÖ and ran for the 2008 National Council election as a non- party candidate at the top of the BZÖ state list in Lower Austria. From October 2008 to October 2013 he was a member of the National Council in the parliamentary club of the BZÖ.

Windholz was mayor of Bad Deutsch-Altenburg from 2010 to 2013.

criticism

Windholz became known to the general public when he used the SS slogan " Our honor means loyalty " at the party convention of FPÖ Lower Austria in Wieselburg in 2000 in honor of longstanding FPÖ members . Windholz then justified himself that he was not aware of the slogan in this context. In 2005, Windholz was fined for assault. He had injured a critic after an FPÖ rally with slaps in the face.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ parliament.gv.at
  2. ↑ ORF Niederösterreich NR election 08: Ex-FPNÖ boss new BZÖ frontman, September 11, 2008
  3. ^ Spiegel Online FPÖ man quoted the SS parole, June 5, 2000
  4. ↑ FP-Windholz convicted of bodily harm. In: derStandard.at. February 20, 2005, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Windwood, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ, BZÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH June 4th 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainburg on the Danube