Gerald Loacker

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Gerald Loacker (2014)

Gerald Loacker (born November 28, 1973 in Dornbirn ) is an Austrian politician ( NEOS ). Loacker has been a member of the Austrian National Council since October 29, 2013 .

education and profession

Gerald Loacker was born on November 28, 1973 in Dornbirn in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . In his hometown he also attended the Bundesgymnasium Dornbirn , where he graduated from high school in 1992 . Then studied Loacker 1992-1997 at the University of Vienna in the degree program Law and graduated with the Diploma of Magister Juris (Mag. Iur.) From. From May 1997 to October 1998 he completed his legal practice at the Higher Regional Court in Vienna . During his studies he was also a member of the Catholic student union Norica Wien. Before that he became a member of the Catholic secondary school association Siegberg Dornbirn (until 1989 in the MKV ).

In November 1998 Loacker was appointed as the head of the Industry Section in the Vorarlberg Chamber of Commerce . Subsequently, in February 2000, he became deputy HR manager at Tridonic in Dornbirn. From 2003 to 2005 he completed the university course for personnel and organizational development at the University of Innsbruck , which he completed as an academic personnel and organizational developer. From 2004 to 2007 Loacker was subsequently head of the HR department at Rondo Ganahl AG, and then in November 2007 he became HR manager at Dornbirner Sparkasse Bank AG .

After accepting the National Council mandate in 2013, he continued to work as HR manager at Dornbirner Sparkasse, initially at 50%. In January 2016 it was announced that Loacker end of February 2016 against his will by the employer for the duration of his political activities on leave was because the company's management argued that the company needed a full-time human resources manager. Loacker has a right of return to his position after the end of his political activities. A few days later it was announced that Gerald Loacker had accepted a new part-time position as a legal employee with a focus on labor law at the Dornbirn law firm LF-LAW Längle Fussenegger Singer Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft starting in March 2016 . Since February 2017 Loacker has been working independently as a sworn and court-certified expert for professional knowledge and work organization.

Political career

Gerald Loacker took on his first political function as a member of the Dornbirn city ​​council for the Austrian People's Party in 2001. In 2002, Loacker wanted to run for the first time as a member of the National Council for the Vorarlberg regional constituency in Vorarlberg Nord and therefore applied for a top position within the party ÖVP list. About his rival for this place, later Member of Parliament Anna Franz , Loacker said ahead of the party's internal voting public "In an urban constituency as here in the regional constituency Nord is a young executive from the industry certainly the fresher signal as a 50-year-old teacher. “Gerald Loacker was severely reprimanded internally for this statement and then withdrew his candidacy for the top spot in the constituency.

From April 2010 to January 2013 he was again a substitute member of the city council for the ÖVP before he left the party to become Vorarlberg state spokesman for the newly founded NEOS - Das Neue Österreich party . As such, he ran for the National Council election in Austria 2013 in second place on the NEOS state list in Vorarlberg, behind top candidate Matthias Strolz . He renounced his state list mandate, so Loacker became a member of the Vorarlberg state electoral district at the beginning of the legislative period , where NEOS was able to achieve 13.1% of the votes. On October 29, 2013, Gerald Loacker was sworn in as one of nine NEOS MPs in the National Council. In the 2017 National Council election , Loacker ran again for NEOS, both in the Vorarlberg Nord regional constituency and on the state and federal lists. After the party was only able to achieve 9.0% of the votes in Vorarlberg in this election, it did not receive a basic mandate at regional or state constituency level. Gerald Loacker therefore moved into the National Council of the 26th legislative period as a member of the NEOS federal election proposal.

In the municipal council and mayoral elections in 2015 , Loacker ran for the first time against his former political home, the Dornbirn People's Party. The Dornbirn NEOS also put him in the running as a candidate for mayor, but only received 4.43% of the votes in the direct election and thus even fewer than the NEOS received in terms of community representatives (5.66%). After the election, he became one of two NEOS mandataries in the Dornbirn city council. In December 2017 he resigned from his mandate as a member of the Dornbirn city council and became a substitute member of the Dornbirn city council in January 2018.

In the 2019 National Council election , Loacker succeeded again as in 2013 with a basic mandate in the Vorarlberg state electoral district .

Web links

Commons : Gerald Loacker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NEOS mandate Loacker on leave from employer against his will . Article on Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at) from January 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ NEOS-Loacker has a new job . Article by ORF Vorarlberg from January 30, 2016.
  3. ^ Andreas Dünser: Loacker wants to become a Neos National Councilor . Article in the Vorarlberger Nachrichten of March 9, 2013.
  4. ↑ These seven Vorarlbergers are now moving to the National Council. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). October 20, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Election results of the municipal council and mayoral elections 2015 on the Vorarlberg state electoral authority's website.
  6. ↑ Who made it into the National Council - and who didn't. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . September 29, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Loacker, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (NEOS), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn