Franz Küberl

Franz Küberl (Vienna 2009)

Franz Küberl (born April 22, 1953 in Graz ) is the former President of Caritas Austria (1995-2013) and was director of the Styrian sub-organization from 1994 to 2016.

Life

Küberl attended commercial school after compulsory school. Franz Küberl began his professional career in 1972 as the diocesan secretary of the Catholic youth workers in Styria. From 1976 to 1982 he headed the Federal Secretariat of the Catholic Youth of Austria in Vienna and was also chairman of the Austrian Federal Youth Council . In 1982 he became a consultant at the Catholic Educational Center in Graz , in 1986 he became General Secretary of the Catholic Action Styria, and in 1994 he was the Styrian Caritas Director. In December 1995 he succeeded Helmut Schüller as President of the Austrian Caritas and worked in this position for 18 years. In November 2013 Franz Küberl did not stand for election as President of Caritas Austria, Michael Landau , the Caritas Director of the Archdiocese of Vienna, was elected as the new President of Caritas Austria on November 13, 2013.

He was also a member of the ORF Public Council and until 2018 of the ORF Foundation Council . Alfred Trendl, President of the Catholic Family Association, succeeded him on the Board of Trustees. Küberl is one of the founders of the Katholischer Medien Verein private foundation . This is the owner of the Styria Media Group , which in turn includes the Kleine Zeitung and Die Presse , among others .

At the end of August 2016, he handed over his position as director of the Styrian Caritas to the previous economic director of the Graz-Seckau diocese, Herbert Beiglböck.

Franz Küberl lives in Graz. He is married and has two sons.

Prizes & awards

• 1999: Order of Saint Daniel, awarded by Patriarch Alexej II.
• 2003: Great Golden Decoration of the State of Styria
• 2005: Received the GLOBArt Award
• 2005: Honorary doctorate in theology, Catholic Theological Private University Linz .
• 2006: Prize for humanistic age research, ÖGGG and the City of Vienna.
• 2009: "Man of the Year", awarded by the Austrian business magazine trend .
• 2013: Awarded the Great Silver Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2016: "Citizens of the City of Graz"
• 2019: Grand Josef Krainer Prize

Works

• My poor Austria. And how it could be richer. Ueberreuter, Vienna October 2010 (together with Barbara Tóth ) ISBN 978-3800074860

Web links

Commons : Franz Küberl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ORF Board of Trustees: The members ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 3, 2012  
2. ↑ derStandard.at: ORF Foundation Council candidate Trendl wants to be "independent like Küberl" . Article dated February 20, 2018, accessed February 28, 2018.
3. ↑ Disclosure according to § 25 Media Act. Archived from the original on November 4, 2014 . 
4. ↑ orf.at - Küberl: Farewell and balance sheet over 22 years of Caritas . Article dated June 24, 2016, accessed June 24, 2016.
5. ↑ caritas-steiermark.at - New Caritas director from 2016: Herbert Beiglböck . Article dated October 28, 2015, accessed April 18, 2017.
6. ^ Press release from the Austrian Embassy in Moscow, No. 8.6 / 10/99, September 16, 1999, via APA
7. ^ "Great Gold" for deserving personalities , accessed on September 3, 2012
8. ↑ GlobArt Awards 1998-2007 ( Memento of the original from March 11th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Online presence of the Diocese of Linz Caritas President Franz Küberl receives an honorary doctorate from the KTU Linz
10. ↑ ÖGGG online presence ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Generations between conflict and solidarity
11. ↑ online presence trend of God General: Caritas boss Franz Küberl is the trend- "Man of the Year" 2009
12. ↑ Caritas Austria online presence ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ BRUNNSTEINER & CO. - Graz has ten new citizens , accessed on November 1, 2017