Günter Widder

Günter Widder (born July 8, 1940 in Wiener Neustadt ) is a former Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and state official. Widder was a member of the Burgenland Landtag from 1970 to 1986 and second President of the Landtag from 1982 to 1986.

Günter Widder was born as the son of the Marzer elementary school director Ladislaus Widder and attended elementary school in Rohrbach near Mattersburg and Marz. He then moved to the Federal Realgymnasium Mattersburg and passed the Matura there in 1959 . He then studied law at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1963 with the academic degree Mag. Jur. and 1964 with the degree of Dr. from. He also studied political science for two semesters at the University of Vienna and economics at the University of Göttingen. Widder entered the service of the Province of Burgenland on August 5, 1964, and served in the army in 1967. From 1965 to 1970 he was political secretary and head of the office of Deputy Governor Reinhold Polster and club secretary of the ÖVP state parliament club. From 1970 to 1986 he was director of the Burgenland Farmers' Union, from 1974 to 1978 regional organizing officer and from 1978 to 1980 regional party secretary of the ÖVP. In 1986 he resigned from the regional service and was from 1987 supervisory board member of BEGAS and from 1991 supervisory board chairman of Burgenland-Holding AG. In 1986 he was also a member of the board of directors of Landes-Hypothekenbank Burgenland and, from 1993, he was deputy general director of Bank Burgenland in Eisenstadt. Widder was given the title of real councilor .

Widder represented the ÖVP in the state parliament between May 11, 1970 and June 11, 1986, and from October 29, 1982 to June 11, 1986 he was the second president of the state parliament.

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Part II (1945-1995). Eisenstadt 1996 (Burgenland Research; 76), ISBN 3-901517-07-3