Ernst Rauchwarter

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Ernst Rauchwarter (born September 8, 1940 in Sigleß ) is a former Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and state official. Rauchwarter was a member of the Burgenland Landtag from 1972 to 1982 .

Rauchwarter was born as the son of the carpenter Ernst Rauchwarter from Sigleß. He attended elementary school in Sigleß and then moved to the Bundesrealgymnasium in Mattersburg , where he graduated in 1959. He then studied cultural engineering and water management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and graduated in 1965 with the academic degree Dipl.-Ing. from. In 1965 Rauchwarter was promoted to Dr. nat. techn. doctorate, from 1965 he also worked as a site manager in road and bridge construction as well as in the construction processing industry and in the building trade. In 1967 he entered the service of the Burgenland regional government, hydraulic engineering department, and was also the printing company owner of Commerz-Druck.

From 1971 onwards, Rauchwarter was politically active as the local party chairman of the ÖVP Sigleß. He was also chairman of the local economic association and councilor in Sigleß. Between 1974 and 1981 he was chairman of the board of the "Wohnbau-Ost Gemeinnützige Baugenossenschaft (WBO)" and represented the ÖVP between November 3, 1972 and October 29, 1982 in the Burgenland state parliament.

Due to his activity in the WBO, charges and prosecution according to § 153 StGB was initiated against smoking attendant on November 17, 1981. Rauchwarter had misused funds from the WBO and founded several companies with the money from the WBO. In the so-called WBO scandal , a total of several people were finally convicted. Rauchwarter was expelled from the ÖVP on December 7, 1981 and spent six years in prison. He lives in Vienna today.

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literature

  • Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 2: (1945–1995) (= Burgenland Research. 76). Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 1996, ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Rauchwarter, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament in Burgenland
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Sigleß