Gerald Forcher

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Gerald Forcher (born August 12, 1977 in Judenburg ) is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). From June 13, 2018 to March 11, 2020 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament .

Life

After primary school in Sankt Georgen ob Judenburg, Gerald Forcher attended secondary school II Judenburg and the polytechnic course in Judenburg. He then completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at Austria-Antriebstechnik in Spielberg . In Styria he worked as a youth trust council, in 1997 he became youth secretary of the union of private employees, printing, journalism, paper (GPA-djp) in Salzburg , of which he has been regional manager since 2012. Since 2014, he has been the successor to Walter Androschin (1959–2013) as the Salzburg state chairman of the Social Democratic Union (FSG) group.

Since 2009 he has been a member of the board of the Salzburg Chamber of Labor and a member of the SPÖ Salzburg regional party committee , and since 2013 he has also been a member of the SPÖ Salzburg regional party presidency . In the state elections in Salzburg in 2018 , he ran for the SPÖ behind Walter Steidl and Stefanie Mösl in third place on the state list. On 13 June 2018 he was in the inaugural parliament session of the 16th legislative term as a Member of the Salzburg Parliament sworn in .

After a " loud and sometimes violent argument " between Forcher and a union employee, Forcher resigned his state parliament mandate on March 11, 2020 and announced that he would be stepping down from his post at the FSG at the end of July 2020 [out of date] . At the beginning of May 2020, Michael Huber succeeded him as Managing Director of GPA-djp Salzburg. Johann Ganitzer took his place in the state parliament on May 27, 2020 .

In June 2020 he was presented by the designated SPÖ state party leader David Egger as the future state manager of the SPÖ Salzburg to succeed Hannes Mathes.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State of Salzburg: Gerald Forcher . Retrieved June 14, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b meineabektiven.at: Gerald Forcher . Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Walter, Steffi & Gerry" are the new Steidl team . Article dated July 6, 2017, accessed April 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Salzburger Nachrichten: The state parliament between hope and fear . Article dated April 25, 2018, accessed April 25, 2018.
  5. ^ Forcher: ÖGB job and SPÖ mandate gone . Article dated March 11, 2020, accessed March 12, 2020.
  6. ↑ "And you must never lose your grip on the ground" . Article dated August 10, 2017, accessed April 25, 2018.
  7. ↑ AK President Pichler builds a new team . Article dated March 6, 2014, accessed April 25, 2018.
  8. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Many new names on the SPÖ state list . Article dated October 7, 2017, accessed April 25, 2018.
  9. ↑ The new members have a majority in the state parliament . Salzburg state correspondence dated June 12, 2018, accessed on June 12, 2018.
  10. ^ Forcher: ÖGB job and SPÖ mandate gone. March 11, 2020, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Huber new GPA managing director. In: ORF.at . May 4, 2020, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  12. ^ A Grossarler strengthens the SPÖ Landtag Club in Salzburg. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . May 24, 2020, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  13. ^ Forcher new managing director of the Salzburg SPÖ. In: ORF.at . June 8, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Gerald Forcher: Three months after the resignation already the comeback in the Salzburg SPÖ. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . June 8, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Forcher, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Judenburg