Franz Schnabl

Franz Schnabl (2015)

Franz Schnabl (born December 14, 1958 in Neunkirchen ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and former police officer . He is Lower Austrian regional councilor for community agendas, water management, consumer protection and legal matters as well as regional party chairman of the SPÖ Lower Austria . Since March 22, 2018 he has been the second Deputy Governor of Lower Austria.

Career

Schnabl grew up in Raach am Hochgebirge and joined the school department of the Vienna Federal Police Directorate in 1977 as a temporary security guard , where he completed the two-year basic training. After two years in the rayon service, he switched to teaching in the school department. There he aspired to the course to become a senior officer ("police officer"), which he completed in 1984/1985. In 1986 he was entrusted with the management of the Adjutantur of the General Inspectorate by the then General Inspector Günther Bögl . In 1993 Schnabl was promoted to Head of Section I of the General Inspectorate, and in 1995 he was appointed Brigadier. In the same year he took part in a UN police operation as part of the Petersberg tasks in Bosnia .

On February 1, 1999, he was appointed to succeed Johann Schererbauer as the youngest general inspector of the security guard. In the course of the Vienna police reform , Schnabl, who had personally picked up his daughter from a Thursday demonstration against the black-blue government, was recalled by Interior Minister Strasser. His successor was Ernst Holzinger, Colonel of the Gendarmerie from Upper Austria . Schnabl was to become the commander of the Margareten security guard department, responsible for the Viennese districts of Wieden , Margareten and Mariahilf . He appealed against his replacement, but then took up a position as head of security at the Canadian-Austrian automotive supplier Magna International Europe and took five years' leave. His appeal was thus invalid, and after a further six months he had lost his entitlement to his old position under the Civil Service Service Act . At Magna International Europe he was promoted to the board area as Vice President Human Resources, but resigned from this position in 2017.

politics

Schnabl was u. a. Member of the personal committee of the SPÖ politician and district leader in Alsergrund, Martina Malyar , and has been a (co-opted) member of the SPÖ's federal executive committee since 2004. In April 2017 Schnabl was designated by the state party executive of the Lower Austrian SPÖ as the top candidate for the state elections in 2018 . At the extraordinary party convention of the SPÖ Lower Austria on June 24, 2017, Franz Schnabl was elected as the successor to Matthias Stadler with 98.8 percent as the new state party chairman.

On September 21, 2017, he was sworn in in the Lower Austrian state parliament as the successor to Maurice Androsch as regional councilor.

In the state elections in Lower Austria in 2018 , the SPÖ reached 23.9% with top candidate Schnabl and thus increased slightly. Since March 22, 2018 he has been the second Deputy Governor of Lower Austria.

Volunteering

In 2004 Schnabl was elected President of the Austrian Workers' Samaritan Association as successor to Elisabeth Pittermann ; On January 14, 2009, in this capacity, he received the Golden Decoration of Honor from Federal President Heinz Fischer for services to the Republic of Austria .

Schnabl has been active in the “Friends of Education in Africa” association since 2010. Until July 10, 2018 he was involved as a deputy chairman at the “Specialist Office for Addiction Prevention Lower Austria”.

criticism

In May 2019 it was announced that Schnabl had received generous gifts from the German ex-spy and detective Werner Mauss in the years 2008-2012 (at that time as a manager at Magna) for arranging contacts, for example to the Viennese lawyer Gabriel Lansky and the then general director for public safety . So he and his wife were invited to a weekend stay in Corsica , received a damask knife worth 6,000 to 8,000 euros and was invited twice by the detective to hunt home. ÖVP, FPÖ and Neos called on Schnabl to "obviously morally question them Actions "and demanded that the allegations of corruption be clarified, Schnabl himself spoke of an intrigue.

literature

• Franz Schnabl, Harald Seyrl: Emergency number 133 - 133 years Viennese police . Echo Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-901761-18-7

Web links

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

• Franz Schnabl on the website of the Province of Lower Austria
• Franz Schnabl at www.meineabektiven.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Franz Schnabl fights against transfer . Format (magazine) , January 30, 2003
2. ↑ General becomes head of security at Magna . Der Standard, July 24, 2003.
3. ↑ Responsible instead of definitive criminal police (magazine) issue 8/2004
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2010 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.  
5. ↑ - Franz Schnabl is the new man at the top of the SPÖ NÖ
6. ↑ orf.at: Franz Schnabl with 98.8 percent new SPÖ boss . Article dated June 24, 2017, accessed June 24, 2017.
7. ↑ Schnabl elected as the new regional councilor - noe.ORF.at. Retrieved September 21, 2017 . 
8. ↑ ots.at - "New Samaritan President: Vienna's Ex-Police Chief Franz Schnabl"
9. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
10. ↑ Franz Schnabl - meineabgeordneten.at
11. ^ Top SPÖ politicians: "Met top spy five times". In: krone.at. May 9, 2019, accessed May 13, 2019 . 
12. ^ Excitement over gifts to SPÖ boss Schnabl. In: orf.at. May 9, 2019, accessed May 13, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Franz Schnabl: Travel and acceptance of gifts confirmed. In: nön.at. May 9, 2019, accessed May 13, 2019 .