Fritz Amann

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Fritz Amann (born February 17, 1950 in Schlins ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ ), Chamber of Commerce official and entrepreneur. Amann was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 1993 to 1994 and from 1996 to 2009 , and from 1999 to 2004 he was one of the vice-presidents. From 2010 to 2014 Amann was Vice President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce.

Life

Fritz Amann is the professional managing partner of Protec GmbH. In 1986 he founded the company in Rankweil , which specializes in control and automation technology, and in 2010 it also has a location in Feldkirch and employs 25 people.

Fritz Amann is married and lives in Fraxern with his wife and three children .

Political career

In the Vorarlberg state parliament

On October 21, 1993 Fritz Amann was appointed to the Vorarlberg state parliament . He stayed there until October 3, 1994. After a break, Amann was not re-elected to a state parliament mandate until October 1, 1996. From October 5, 1999 to October 4, 2004 he was Vice President of the State Parliament, then he took over the function of club chairman of the Freedom Parliamentary Group. In 2001 he criticized the demolition of dead cattle in the state parliament and made the subject known to the general public for the first time. After the state elections in Vorarlberg in 2009 , in which the liberal state party leader Dieter Egger had made some statements during the election campaign that Amann said he could not support, he left the Vorarlberg state parliament.

In an interview with ORF, Amann commented on Dieter Egger's “Jewish exile teller” at the start of the election campaign with the words “On the one hand, the free-spirited, liberal Vorarlberg FPÖ is thrown into the brown soup, on the other hand, the party could be damaged by its role in the opposition”. His successor as a liberal club chairman was Dieter Egger at the constituent meeting of the 29th Vorarlberg state parliament.

As a Chamber of Commerce official

Fritz Amann was chairman of the Ring of Freedom Economists (RfW) in Vorarlberg from 1994 to 2007 and was federal chairman from March 13, 2004 to March 8, 2014 and thus a member of the extended presidium of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce . In 2010 he succeeded Matthias Krenn (Mayor of Bad Kleinkirchheim) as Vice President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. He succeeded him in 2014 as federal chairman of the RfW.

In April 2010, after the federal presidential election , in which the liberal candidate Barbara Rosenkranz was clearly inferior to incumbent Heinz Fischer , Fritz Amann criticized the federal party leader of the FPÖ, Heinz-Christian Strache . Amann said in an interview that the lineup of the "right-wing" candidate Barbara Rosenkranz was a mistake. As with his criticism of Egger's statements, Amann demanded a rethinking of the party leadership in the direction of free-liberal values.

As a result, both party leader Strache and various other high-ranking FPÖ functionaries condemned the public expression of the RfW federal chairman. Since the chairmen of the RfW regional associations stood behind Amann, the FPÖ entered the Chamber of Commerce election in Vienna with its own list “FPÖ-Pro Mittelstand”, which clearly failed to make it into the chamber. After the election, Fritz Amann was appointed Vice President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce as a representative of the Ring of Freedom Economists .

In May 2014, Amann resigned as Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce after the controversial statements that one-person companies (EPU) were “not entrepreneurs”, but “day laborers” and “bogus self-employed”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Withdrawal with immediate effect . Article on ORF.at from May 8, 2014.
  2. ^ ORF Vorarlberg: Fritz Amann worries about the future of the FPÖ . Article of September 21, 2009.
  3. ^ The foundation of the RfW took place in 1959 and was represented by the following federal chairmen. RFW homepage, accessed November 14, 2015
  4. ^ Die Presse : FPÖ: Amann suggests Strache resign . Article of April 26, 2010.
  5. ↑ Broad blue supporter front for Strache . Article on DiePresse.com from April 27, 2010.
  6. ^ Austrian Chamber of Commerce: New WKÖ presidium elected until 2015 under the leadership of Christoph Leitl . WKÖ press release on June 24, 2010.
  7. ↑ According to controversial statements: WKÖ Vice Amann resigns. In: The Standard . May 8, 2014, accessed May 8, 2014 .
  8. ^ Fritz Amann: "EPU are not entrepreneurs". In: Wirtschaftsblatt . May 6, 2014, archived from the original on May 8, 2014 ; accessed on May 8, 2014 (guest commentary).
  9. ↑ Vice-Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce resigns after the "day laborer" -sager. In: The press. May 8, 2014, accessed May 8, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Amann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the state parliament and club chairman
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlins