Géza Molnár (politician)

Géza Molnár (born May 29, 1984 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ ). From 2006 to 2012 he was deputy federal chairman of the Ring of Freedom Youth (RFJ). He has been a member of the Burgenland State Parliament since 2015 . In addition, the Eisenstadt municipal council has been the club chairman and deputy state party chairman of the FPÖ Burgenland since 2016 .

Life

Origin, education and profession

Molnár was born in Vienna in 1984 as the son of the later Protestant military pastor Géza Molnár .

He grew up in Styria and - from the age of eleven - in Burgenland. After primary school , he attended the BORG Kurzwiese in Eisenstadt, where he graduated from high school in 2002 . In 2002/03 he did military service in the Austrian Armed Forces . From 2003 to 2006 he studied law (Jus) at the University of Vienna (without a degree). In 2009/10 he completed the postgraduate course "Academic Auditors" at the BFI Vienna University of Economics and Business .

In 2013 he became an employee or contract employee in the district administration of Eisenstadt-Umgebung (child and youth welfare).

politics

Party and youth association

Molnár, who was active for about ten years in the extreme right-wing organization of the FPÖ Ring Freedom Youth (RFJ), held the post of deputy federal chairman under Johann Gudenus and Dominik Nepp from 2006 to 2012 .

In 2001 he became a member of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Through his father he became acquainted with the politician Norbert Hofer - also known as "Hofer Protégé " - and in the 2000s he was brought into Burgenland local and state politics by the later FPÖ member of the National Council. In 2005 he was first city party chairman of the FPÖ in Eisenstadt, from 2006 to 2013 he was also the club director of the FPÖ state parliament club and from 2007 to 2013 state party secretary of the FPÖ Burgenland. In 2016, he was elected deputy state party chairman under Johann Tschürtz with 76.1 percent of the vote .

In 2015 he, then designated member of the state parliament, took part in an event organized by the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement Austria (IBÖ) in Eisenstadt.

MP

He is since 2007 member of the Municipal Council of Eisenstadt and chairman of the Freedom Party in the city and district of Eisenstadt .

Already in the state elections in Burgenland in 2010 , he ran for the FPÖ in 9th place on the list, at that time unsuccessfully. In the 2015 state elections in Burgenland , Molnár, who had been fourth on his electoral list after Johann Tschürtz, Ilse Benkö and Gerhard Kovasits since 2014, was elected to the Burgenland state parliament in Eisenstadt via the state constituency. He was the top candidate of his party in constituency 2 (free cities of Eisenstadt and Rust and the political district of Eisenstadt-Umgebung), where his party received 13.26 percent of the vote, but no basic mandates , behind the SPÖ and ÖVP . The party won six seats nationwide. After Kovasits's death in 2016, he became club chairman of the FPÖ Burgenland, previously he was deputy club chairman in 2015/16.

In the Landtag, he has been a member of the State Audit Office Committee (2nd Secretary), the Finance, Budget and Budget Committee, the Petitions Committee (Chairman) and the Immunity and Incompatibility Committee (1st Secretary).

Family and private

Molnár is married and has two children; his wife had two children.

During his studies he became a member of the obligatory and color - bearing German national student association Academic Corps Hansea to Vienna / formerly WKR and KSCV .

In his free time he is active in the Eisenstädter Schützengesellschaft and trumpeter in the town and fire brigade band.

See also

• List of members of the Burgenland Landtag (XXI legislative period)

Web links

• Géza Molnár at the FPÖ Burgenland
• Molnár Géza in the Burgenland Parliament
• Information on Géza Molnár from the Eisenstadt municipal council
• Géza Molnár on www.meineabektiven.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Christa Zöchling , Jakob Winter: Der Volksempfänger: What scares us with Norbert Hofer . profil.at, May 18, 2016.
2. ↑ Anna Maria Michenthaler: young politicians and young politicians of the word . In: Bürgermeister Zeitung 3/2013, p. 32.
3. ↑ Also Molnar at the meeting of the “Identitarians” . burgenland.orf.at, June 21, 2015.
4. ↑ Election '15: FPÖ team with Geza Molnar . burgenland.orf.at, February 21, 2014.
5. ↑ FPÖ-Klub , bgld-landtag.at, accessed on May 23, 2016.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Orovits: Géza Molnár: The new Freedom Party Club Boss Hans Niessl as Schmiedl, the shortcomings of the EU and the "identitary" . kurier.at, April 22, 2016.