Gerhard Steier

Gerhard Steier (born September 19, 1956 in Siegendorf ) is an Austrian politician (non-party, formerly SPÖ ) and teacher. From 2002 to 2010 he was a member of the Austrian National Council and from 2010 to 2015 1st President of the Burgenland Parliament , of which he was a member until February 2020.

Life

Gerhard Steier attended elementary and secondary school from 1963 to 1971 and then graduated from the Wolfgarten music-pedagogical secondary school in Eisenstadt , where he graduated from high school in 1975. Steier then studied to become a teacher for German, pedagogy, psychology and philosophy at the University of Vienna and did his military service between 1975 and 1976.

Between 1982 and 1989, Steier was a teacher at the HTBLA Eisenstadt and then until 2002 employed by the state school board in Eisenstadt.

Gerhard Steier is married and has two daughters.

politics

Gerhard Steier was a member of the municipal council of Siegendorf between 1987 and 1994 and then deputy mayor until 1996. In 1996 he was elected mayor of Siegendorf and held this office until 2011. In addition, between 1997 and 2002 he was chairman of the Northern Burgenland Water Management Association. On December 20, 2002, he entered the National Council for the SPÖ and was elected SPÖ district chairman in May 2008. After Walter Prior , President of the State Parliament of Burgenland, retired after the state elections in 2010 , Steier was appointed as his successor by the SP Burgenland party executive. Steier resigned from the National Council on June 23, 2010 and was sworn in as a member of the Burgenland Landtag on June 24th and was elected 1st Landtag President with 32 out of 36 votes.

In the course of the constituent meeting of the Burgenland state parliament after the state elections in 2015 on July 9, 2015, Steier, whose replacement as the state parliament president had been decided in an SPÖ board meeting on June 10, 2015, announced that he would leave the SPÖ and become a free member of parliament Landtag will be. He criticized the formation of the SPÖ-FPÖ coalition state government Niesl IV as a power-political alliance, which violated the values ​​of the SPÖ. His successor as 1st President of the State Parliament was the SPÖ politician and former SPÖ club chairman Christian Illedits . After the state elections in 2020 , he left the state parliament.

Web links

• Gerhard Steier on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ ORF Burgenland Politics: "Steier will be the new President of the Landtag", June 8, 2010
2. ^ Bang: Steier resigns from SPÖ on burgenland.orf.at; Retrieved July 9, 2015
3. ↑ Many new members in the Landtag. In: ORF.at . January 31, 2020, accessed February 17, 2020 .