Georg Niedermühlbichler

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Georg Niedermühlbichler (2016)

Georg Niedermühlbichler (born February 16, 1966 in Söll ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and a member of the Vienna State Parliament as well as a member of the Vienna City Council . He was state party secretary of the SPÖ Vienna and from 2016 to 2017 Federal Managing Director of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ).

Life

Georg Niedermühlbichler completed an apprenticeship as an electrical installer and then as a retail salesman. He worked for Wienstrom from 1985 to 1998 . From 2007 to 2008, Niedermühlbichler was Federal and Vienna State Secretary of the Austrian Tenants' Association and has been leading the association since March 2008 as Vienna State Chairman and President of the Austrian Tenant Association (MVÖ).

Niedermühlbichler is married. He has a son and a daughter.

politics

From 1996 to 2005, Niedermühlbichler was SPÖ district councilor in the inner city and from 1998 to 2001 club chairman of the SPÖ district councils. From 2001 to 2005 he worked as a deputy district mayor. At the same time he was district manager of the SPÖ Vienna-Innere Stadt from 1998 to 2006. He has been a member of the Vienna State Parliament and the City Council since November 18, 2005 and represents the SPÖ in the 18th legislative period in the “Housing, Housing and Urban Renewal” committee. From August 1, 2014 to June 2016, he was regional manager of the SPÖ Vienna.

On June 13, 2016, he succeeded Gerhard Schmid as SPÖ federal manager.

In August 2017, the psychoanalyst Rotraud A. Perner left the SPÖ. She accused Niedermühlbichler of “statements that were misogynistic in her opinion” and that he and Chancellor Christian Kern were conducting dirty campaigning against the political competitor.

On September 30, 2017, two weeks before the National Council election in Austria 2017 , Niedermühlbichler announced his resignation as federal manager of the SPÖ in the course of the Silberstein affair . The resignation was in connection with partly racist, partly as a false flag campaign , allegedly created for voter analysis Facebook pages.

While Niedermühlbichler initially denied that he and the party leadership knew about the sites, profil and Die Presse published that the external SPÖ campaign advisor Tal Silberstein had them put on. The PR consultant Peter Puller was commissioned by him to look after the website. After Silberstein's arrest in August 2017, the SPÖ election campaign manager Paul Pöchhacker , who reported directly to Niedermühlbichler, took over his duties and instructed Puller to continue the pages in order to conceal a connection to Silberstein and the SPÖ. The pages were taken offline immediately after Silberstein's involvement became known. Pöchhacker was then suspended .

On the federal election proposal of the SPÖ for the 2017 National Council election, Niedermühlbichler was ranked 9th. Niedermühlbichler did not achieve an NR mandate by pre-listing from other lists and remained in the Vienna Landtag.

Web links

Commons : Georg Niedermühlbichler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b SPÖ federal manager Niedermühlbichler resigns. In: The press . September 30, 2017, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Niedermühlbichler wants an absolute majority. In: ORF . July 14, 2014, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Niedermühlbichler new SPÖ federal manager. In: ORF . June 13, 2016, accessed June 13, 2016 .
  4. ^ Mutual allegations of "dirty campaigning" . In: The Standard . August 21, 2017, p.  7 : "Yes, Mr. Kern and his husband believe in the rough, Niedermühlbichler, we don't notice that it is you yourself who are doing 'dirty campaigning' just because you repeatedly accuse their most serious political competitor?"
  5. ^ Gernot Bauer : SPÖ adviser Silberstein organized the right Facebook page against Kurz . In: profile . No.  40 , October 2, 2017, p. 18-19 ( profil.at [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Barbara Tóth , Florian Klenk , Josef Redl, Nina Horaczek : The Silberstein Affair. In: Falter . October 2, 2017, accessed October 3, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Kern's campaign: What role does Gusenbauer play? In: The press . September 22, 2017, p.  6 ( diepresse.com [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  8. ^ A b Christian Böhmer: Silberstein: The SPÖ's relief offensive is again wavering . In: Courier . October 4, 2017, p. 2 ( Online - The print article contains a facsimile of the correspondence.): “The correspondence between Pöchhacker (SPÖ) and Puller (Silberstein) shows that Silberstein's team asked what should happen to the underhanded Facebook pages. Pöchhacker's answer: The pages have to stay online for the time being - otherwise you would see the connection between Silberstein and the pages immediately. "
  9. ↑ bang: SP national manager Niedermühlbichler resigns. In: The Standard . September 30, 2017, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Announcement of the federal electoral authority of August 31, 2017 (PDF; 4.9 MB) Federal Ministry of the Interior , August 31, 2017, p. 1 , accessed on October 16, 2017 .
  11. ^ SPÖ: Matznetter does not get a mandate. Austria , October 23, 2017, accessed on October 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Niedermühlbichler, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Söll