Franz Hörl

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Franz Hörl (born December 4, 1956 in Zell am Ziller ) is an Austrian host and farmer , politician ( ÖVP ). Hörl has been regional chairman of the Tyrolean Economic Association since April 2016. From 2006 to 2013 he was a member of the National Council , from January 24, 2018 to June 11, 2019 he was a member again. He has been a member again since October 23, 2019.

education and profession

Franz Hörl attended elementary school from 1962 to 1966 and in 1967 switched to the boarding school in the Fiecht monastery in Vomp , which he attended until 1971. He then graduated from the Hotel Management School Villa Blanka in Innsbruck from 1972 to 1975 and did his military service .

Hörl completed internships abroad in the hotel industry and learned the profession of cook, especially in Switzerland and Liechtenstein . After the early death of his father, Hörl took over his parents' business in 1978, the Hotel Gaspingerhof in Gerlos . He has also been a farmer since 1978. Since 1979, Hörl has also been managing director of the Gerlos ski lift center. Since May 2010 he has been chairman of the professional association of the cable car industry.

politics

Franz Hörl has been a member of the Gerlos municipal council since 1983 and was Deputy Mayor of the municipality between 1986 and 1992. In 1992 the local council elected him mayor. In addition to his mandates, Hörl has been local party chairman of the ÖVP Gerlos since 1992 and was elected chairman of the Schwaz district office of the Austrian Economic Association in 2004. Hörl has also been chairman of the Schwaz district office of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce since 2000 .

Franz Hörl represented the ÖVP from October 30, 2006 to October 28, 2013 for the first time in the National Council. In the XXIII. During the legislative period, Hörl was a member of the committees for consumer protection, business and industry, buildings, families, national defense, tourism and the environment.

On April 25, 2016 Jürgen Bodenseer was voted out of office as chairman of the Tyrolean Economic Association in Igls. With 55% of the votes cast, Franz Hörl was elected as his successor.

As of January 24, 2018, he was again a member of the National Council, replacing Kira Grünberg , who accepted a mandate on the federal list that had become vacant through the formation of the Federal Government Kurz I.

ÖVP National Councilor Franz Hörl was elected on February 18, 2020 in Schwaz at the 23rd General Assembly of the Tyrolean Economic Association in the presence of Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Minister of Economics Margarete Schramböck, Governor Günther Platter and WKÖ President Harald Mahrer with 96.63 percent of the delegate's votes (178 delegates present) re-elected as regional chairman.

criticism

Franz Hörl was accused of sexism in November 2011: When asked by Member of the National Council Gabriele Binder-Maier how many women worked in the Ministry of Agriculture, he replied: "There will be some cleaning lady".

Hörl is accused in the media of exceeding the pain and decency threshold with his "abusive tirades" and of acting too one-sidedly as a cable car lobbyist. The daily newspaper Der Standard described him as the "Pit Bull Terrier of the Tyrolean People's Party". The reason for this was an underhand attack on a recognized BOKU appraiser, who had previously rejected a gigantic cable car project for weighty reasons of nature conservation as an agent of the Federal Administrative Court .

On February 6, 2019, Franz Hörl published a video on his Facebook page that shows ski tourers chasing chamois through deep snow for no apparent reason. The animals are surrounded by winter sports enthusiasts until they finally escape exhausted. It is suggested that the attached video article is a current article from Austria. Research by the Austrian Alpine Club has shown: The original version of the video was not recorded this winter, but in February 2018. The clip was not filmed in Austria, but near La Molina , in the Spanish part of the Pyrenees. The Spanish ski tourers wanted to save the animals from the deep snow. According to the PES, Hörl tried to spread negative sentiment against ski tourers with this post.

Franz Hörl advocates blasting an entire mountain ridge in order to connect the Pitztal and Ötztal ski areas.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria , he is said to have lobbied as a representative of the cable car industry until March 12, 2020 against the end of the winter season decided on March 13, 2020. This although he was aware of the infection of many holidaymakers from the Tyrol holiday, especially in Ischgl . Hörl knows every guilt of himself and calls the allegations against him a witch hunt. At the end of March, confirmed SMS messages from Hörl became public, suggesting that he had pressured an Ischgler innkeeper to close his restaurant in order to "save" the winter season.

Receipts / individual evidence

  1. ^ ÖVP federal mandates go to Tyrol and Vienna . Article from January 16, 2018, accessed on January 25, 2018.
  2. ↑ Sexism alarm around VP mandate. ( Memento from November 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: heute.at . November 10, 2011.
  3. ↑ Steffen Arora: The post-factual world of ÖVP cable car speaker Franz Hörl. In: derStandard.at. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ How Real is Reality? Or how a video can bring ski tourers into disrepute. In: alpenverein.at . February 2019, accessed November 3, 2019.
  5. ↑ Nindler Peter: Planned glacier marriage Pitztal-Ötztal as a test of strength. October 16, 2019, accessed November 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Sign now: No to the Pitztal-Ötztal glacier construction! In: aufstehn.at. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Après-ski with a rude awakening in the Tyrolean mountains. In: derstandard.at. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Cable car users knew about the Ischgl corona bomb early on. VP National Councilor Franz Hörl warned the landlord of the "Kitzloch" in SMS days before Ischgl was blocked from a possible end of the season. In: kurier.at. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Politician defends himself: “I haven't covered anything up!” Retrieved on April 3, 2020 .
  10. ↑ SMS traffic puts Tyrolean cable car users and tourism professionals under pressure - derStandard.at. Retrieved April 3, 2020 (Austrian German).

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personal data
SURNAME Hörl, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian host, farmer and politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Zell am Ziller