Georg Willi

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Georg Willi (born May 6, 1959 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian politician ( Die Grünen ) and mayor of Innsbruck since May 2018. From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the National Council of the Greens .

He ran as a mayor and top candidate for the municipal council and mayoral elections in Innsbruck in 2018 . The Greens emerged from the election as the party with the strongest vote and Willi won the first round of the direct mayor election with 30.88 percent of the vote. In the runoff election on May 6, he reached 52.9 percent (with a turnout of almost 44%) and has been the first mayor of the Greens in an Austrian capital since May 24, 2018.

Life

Georg Willi was born in Innsbruck on May 6, 1959. In 1977 he passed the Matura at the Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck and between 1977 and 1978 attended the Abitur graduate course at the HAK Innsbruck. Then he studied from 1979 to 1989 Biology and gravy (not completed).

Willi is married and has a son.

politics

Willi got involved with the Greens in Innsbruck and was councilor for the United Greens in Innsbruck from 1989 to 1994 . Starting in Innsbruck, the agreement between the United Greens and the Green Alternative was successfully advanced. On April 5, 1994, Willi entered the Tyrolean state parliament . At the same time he was elected club chairman of the Greens in the Tyrolean state parliament and held this position until 2013. Between 2003 and 2005 he was also state spokesman and then for two years a member of the federal board of the Austrian Greens.

In 2006 Georg Willi ran for the municipal council elections in Innsbruck. Although he was only in 10th position on the list, he was advertised as a candidate for mayor , although according to Innsbruck city law, the mayor was not elected by the population at that time, but by the local councils. After the Greens failed to enter the city government, Willi stayed as a member of the state parliament.

On November 17, 2012, Georg Willi was elected the top candidate for the 2013 National Council election with 95.7 percent at the regional assembly of the Tyrolean Greens in Völs . After the successful election, Willi switched to the National Council as the Green’s traffic and tourism spokesman, succeeding the internist Kurt Grünewald , who had been a member of the National Council for the Greens since 1999. Willis' role as club chairman of the Tyrolean Greens in the state parliament was taken over by the state parliament member Gebi Mair .

From November 2013 to April 2016 Willi was again the state spokesman for the Tyrolean Greens and concluded this time with a series of electoral successes up to the 2016 municipal council election.

On May 29, 2017, Willi was able to prevail at the district assembly of the Innsbruck Greens with 74 percent of the votes against the incumbent Vice Mayor Sonja Pitscheider and was elected as top and mayor candidate for the municipal council and mayoral election in Innsbruck 2018 . Pitscheider and the Green City Councilor Gerhard Fritz had previously announced that if Willis wins, they will resign from all political positions and no longer take part in the election. In the municipal council election on April 22nd, the Greens became the party with the strongest vote with 24.2 percent and Willi received the most votes with 30.88 percent in the direct mayor election. In the runoff election between Willi and Christine Oppitz-Plörer ( for Innsbruck , ÖVP ), the previous mayor and runner-up in the first ballot, he became the new mayor of the Tyrolean capital on May 6 with a turnout of almost 44 percent with 52.9 percent elected. On May 24, 2018 he was sworn in as mayor by Governor Günther Platter at the constituent meeting of the Innsbruck municipal council .

Willi is assigned to the bourgeois camp within the Greens .

In an interview at the turn of the year 2018/2019, Willi spoke out in favor of a merger of the Greens with the "Now" list, the former list of the former Green Peter Pilz. It makes "rational sense, because the green vote potential is currently divided between two parties".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b orf.at: Georg Willi von Platter sworn in . Article dated May 24, 2018, accessed May 24, 2018.
  2. ^ Willi new mayor of Innsbruck . May 6, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed May 7, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Der Standard : Innsbruck: Green party with the strongest position, Willi and Oppitz-Plörer in the mayor's runoff election , April 22, 2018
  4. ↑ a b Der Standard : Green Georg Willi wins Innsbruck mayoral election , May 6, 2018
  5. ↑ Georg Willi. (No longer available online.) In: Die Grünen. Archived from the original on June 11, 2016 ; accessed on June 11, 2016 .
  6. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Georg Willi: The nice green from the church choir . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on May 31, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Georg Willi, biography. In: www.parlament.gv.at. Retrieved June 11, 2016 .
  8. ^ Willi green top candidate in Innsbruck - tirol.ORF.at. Retrieved May 30, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung Online: Pitscheider vs. Willi: Green Showdown in Innsbruck | Tiroler Tageszeitung online - news from now! In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online . ( online [accessed March 20, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Innsbruck election: Willi with surprising supporters. Retrieved May 3, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Köksal Baltaci: Innsbruck: Georg Willi - the bourgeois Green. Die Presse , May 6, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Georg Willi for merging with Jetzt. December 31, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Willi, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (Greens), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck