Gerfrid Gaigg

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Gerfrid Gaigg (born July 15, 1932 in Salzburg ) is a former Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and business lawyer. Gaigg was a member of the Austrian National Council and the European Parliament .

education and profession

After elementary school, Gaigg attended middle school, which he graduated with a high school diploma in 1951 . He then studied law at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck between 1951 and 1955 and supplemented his education from 1955 to 1956 with a degree in political science at the Leland-Stanford Jr. University in California. After his return to Austria, Gaigg completed his court year at the Gmunden District Court and the Salzburg Regional Court between 1956 and 1957 and began training as a lawyer in 1957, which he completed in 1963. He also passed the bar exam in 1961.

After completing his training, Gaigg worked for the Chamber of Commerce for Upper Austria from 1964 and became head of the legal and commercial policy department in 1968. In 1976 he became managing director of the Institute for Sociopolitical Basic Research (IPOL Institute).

politics

Gaigg was already politically active during his studies and was chairman of the Austrian student body at the University of Innsbruck from 1954 to 1955 . In 1971 he became chairman of the Linz city group of the Austrian Association of Academics and a member of the Linz municipal council. In addition, from 1975 to 1993 he was the chairman of the Upper Austria regional group in the Austrian Association of Academics, and from 1981 he was Vice-President of the Austrian Association of Academics.

Gaigg represented the ÖVP for many years in the National Council, to which he was initially a member from October 13, 1981 to May 18, 1983. After he was sworn in again as a member of the National Council on December 17, 1986, he left parliament on November 4, 1990. After the government was formed in 1990, Gaigg was able to move back into the National Council on December 18, 1990 and was a member of the body until November 6, 1994. Gaigg then spent his last period in the National Council from December 15, 1994 to March 12, 1995, where he was delegated by the National Council as a member of the European Parliament between January 1, 1995 and January 24, 1996.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Gaigg, Gerfrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), MEP, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg