Günther Barnet

Günther Barnet (born May 12, 1967 in Vienna as Günther Enzendorfer ) is an Austrian politician ( BZÖ ).

Life

Barnet was a regular soldier with the rank of captain until 1992. He still describes himself today as an "army high alpinist, basic hand-to-hand combat trainer and military parachutist". As early as 1992, as an employee of the Austrian-Slovenian company, Barnet was suspected of smuggling machine gun ammunition to Croatia . On August 25, 1994, Enzendorfer was sentenced under the War Material Act. He accepted the verdict. In addition, Barnet was a member of the Siegfriedskopf platform, which fought to keep the sculpture in the auditorium of the University of Vienna . From 1992 Barnet worked as an employee of Friedhelm Frischenschlager in the liberal parliamentary club ( FPÖ ). He later switched to Herbert Scheibner , with whom Barnet is still closely associated today.

After the FPÖ entered government, Scheibner took Barnet with him to the Ministry of Defense as press spokesman. When the Vienna FPÖ councilor Michael Kreißl renounced his mandate on April 24, 2002, Günther Barnet was sworn in as his successor on April 26. From 2003 to 2004, Barnet was also the coordinator of the National Security Council in the Ministry of Defense. In the course of the separation of the BZÖ from the FPÖ, Barnet quickly sided with Herbert Scheibner and Jörg Haider. Together with other FPÖ members of the state parliament, the founding of its own club in the Vienna City Hall was announced on April 6, 2005, which was named “Bündnis Zukunft Wien - Die Stadtpartei” (BZW). A total of seven FPÖ members of the state parliament subsequently joined the BZW. The relationship between Barnet and federal party leader Haider had never been free of friction in the run-up, as he had described it two years earlier as the “older operetta diva” and “ Birgit Sarata of Austrian domestic politics”. Barnet was unanimously elected chairman at the founding party conference of the Viennese regional organization in 2005, while the BZW was renamed BZÖ-Vienna. The BZÖ-Vienna subsequently competed in the municipal council elections in 2005 , with Barnet waiving the top candidacy in the hopeless election. District councilor Hans-Jörg Schimanek had to answer for the defeat with only 1.15% of the vote .

After leaving the local council, Scheibner Barnet got the position as club director of the BZÖ in the National Council, which he held until his dismissal on May 4, 2007.

Barnet was a member of the state parliament in Vienna between 2002 and 2005 and from 2005 head of the BZÖ-Vienna. On May 8, 2007, Barnet was deposed as head of Vienna by the Federal BZÖ's executive committee and expelled from the party for “multiple anti-party behavior”. Since the BZÖ-Vienna is a separate party, the legality of his removal as head of the state has been questioned. The BZÖ-Vienna also stood behind their country chief, who had been replaced on an interim basis by Helene Partik-Pablé . Partik-Pable was commissioned to prepare a Vienna alliance convention, which should prepare new elections for the top of the alliance. Finally, Barnet resigned from his position as head of the BZÖ Vienna and is now only a “simple party member”. The temporary management of the BZÖ Vienna took over Herbert Scheibner, who had prepared a convention on June 2nd together with Partik-Pable. At this convention Michael Tscharnutter was elected as the new regional chairman with 74.2% of the votes.

Private

Günther Barnet was originally called Günther Enzendorfer and took the name Barnet after his marriage. He has a son. Barnet is a member of the uncovering corporation VdSt! Sudetia Vienna.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Stenographic minutes of the National Council of a speech by Green MP Peter Pilz [1]
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Die Presse May 9, 2007 [2]
3. ↑ 15th meeting of the municipal council on April 26, 2002, verbatim protocol [3]
4. ^ Ö1 April 6, 2005 http://oe1.orf.at/inforadio/49690.html?filter=3 ( Memento from April 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ http://orf.at/070509-12088/index.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ orf.at [4]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
7. ↑ Die Presse May 9, 2007 [5]
8. ↑ Der Standard (Online) May 9, 2007 [6]
9. ↑ Der Standard (Online) May 10, 2007 [7]
10. ↑ Der Standard (Online) May 11, 2007 [8]