Gernot Darmann

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Gernot Darmann with his colleague Christian Hafenecker at a press conference on the Hypo investigation committee

Gernot Darmann (born July 7, 1975 in Graz ) is an Austrian lawyer and politician ( FPÖ ). Since 2016 he has been the FPÖ regional party chairman in Carinthia. In 2019 he became deputy federal party leader of the FPÖ.

Education and training

Gernot Darmann first attended elementary school in Wolfsberg and then between 1985 and 1993 the high school of the St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal . Between 1993 and 1996 Darmann studied business administration at the University of Graz and at the Vienna University of Economics and Business , but switched to law studies at the University of Vienna in 1996 , which he completed in 2003 with a master's degree in law ( Mag.iur. ).

Professional and political career

After completing his studies, Darmann completed his legal internship at the Higher Regional Court of Vienna between 2003 and 2004 , was then a trainee at BKS Bank AG (2004 to 2005) and then worked for one year as an individual customer advisor. In 2006 Darmann took over the management of a BKS Bank AG branch in Carinthia.

Darmann was the state party secretary of the Freedom Party in Carinthia . In the National Council elections in 2006 , Darmann was elected through the election proposal of the Freedom Party in Carinthia and on October 30, 2006, he entered the National Council as the youngest member of the BZÖ Parliamentary Club. Darmann was a judicial spokesman, national defense spokesman, science spokesman, human rights spokesman as well as youth spokesman and, because of these functions, a member of the parliamentary committees for justice, science, national defense, human rights, immunity and the Ombudsman's Office.

In 2008, Gernot Darmann was again named the top candidate for the National Council election in constituency 2A - Klagenfurt and also moved back to the Austrian National Council. In the course of the new legislative period, Darmann was active as spokesman for the parliamentary club in the fields of science and national defense.

In the legislative period up to 2013, he was a member of the following committees as a member of the National Council: Committee for Research, Innovation and Technology, Committee for Petitions and Citizens' Initiatives, Justice Committee, National Defense Committee, Standing Subcommittee of the National Defense Committee, Incompatibility Committee, Science Committee.

In the state elections in Carinthia in 2009 , Gernot Darmann led the constituency list of the Klagenfurt city and state district. Due to the success in the election on March 1st, Darmann also secured his mandate in the Carinthian state parliament, moved from the National Council to Carinthia and was most recently a member of the FPK state parliament until March 2013. In addition, Gernot Darmann was also elected as deputy chairman of his parliamentary group (Freedom State Parliament Club in Carinthia). In August 2012 he succeeded Kurt Scheuch as club chairman.

From April 2013 until the next National Council election in September 2013, Darmann again exercised his mandate as a member of the National Council as a member of the FPÖ Parliamentary Club and was a member of the Justice Committee, the Constitutional Committee, the Rules Committee and the Immunity Committee of the National Council in Parliament.

In September 2013, Gernot Darmann went to the National Council election as the top candidate of the FPÖ Carinthia . In the XXV. During the legislative period of the National Council , Darmann was deputy chairman of the FPÖ parliamentary club and was an active member of the following committees of the National Council: Justice; Constitution; Internal security (Darmann was security spokesman for the FPÖ); Standing subcommittee of the Interior Committee; Standing Subcommittee of the National Defense Committee; Familys; Sports; Immunity; Rules of Procedure. As spokesman for the rules of procedure of the FPÖ parliamentary club, Darmann was chief negotiator of the FPÖ for the reform of parliamentary committees of inquiry drawn up in 2014 (committees of inquiry as minority rights). Darmann was a member of the National Security Council and a member of the " Hypo Investigation Committee " in the National Council. From October 2015 he was parliamentary group leader of the FPÖ in the Hypo-Alpe-Adria investigation committee.

On June 4, 2016, Darmann was elected as the successor to Christian Ragger as the Carinthian regional party leader of the FPÖ. On June 23, 2016, Darmann was sworn in as the regional councilor of the Carinthian regional government, Emperor I , and David Lasar succeeded him as a member of the national council . After leaving the state government after the state elections in Carinthia in 2018 , he was sworn in again as a member of the Carinthian state parliament on April 12, 2018 , where he has been the club chairman again since then.

Web links

Commons : Gernot Darmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Austrian Parliamentary Committees
  2. ↑ orf.at - FPÖ: Darmann wants to become governor . Article dated June 4, 2016, accessed June 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ derStandard.at - Darmann new managing chairman of the FPÖ Carinthia . Article dated April 8, 2016, accessed May 3, 2016.
  4. ↑ derStandard.at - Stenzel becomes FPÖ city councilor, Lasar changes to the national council . Article dated May 3, 2016, accessed May 3, 2016.
  5. ↑ orf.at - Darmann sworn in as regional councilor . Article dated June 23, 2016, accessed June 23, 2016.
  6. ↑ FPÖ Kärntnen: Gernot Darmann . Retrieved June 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Darmann, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPK), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH 7th July 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz