Gottfried Schröckenfuchs

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Gottfried Schröckenfuchs (born November 8, 1947 in Mariahof ) is a former military commander of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . The most recently in Armed Forces in the officer rank of brigadier -standing professional soldier was in charge from 2001 to 2009 with the leadership of the Vorarlberg military command. In addition, Schröckenfuchs was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament for the ÖVP for twelve years .

Schröckenfuchs is married, has a daughter and two sons and lives in Lochau on Lake Constance.

Live and act

Gottfried Schröckenfuchs was born on November 8, 1947 in Mariahof in Styria and grew up in this federal state as well. He completed his Matura in Leoben and then moved to the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt , where he completed his training as a career officer in the Austrian Armed Forces. In addition, he then attended the National Defense Academy in Vienna, where he was trained as a troop commander. After completing his training, Schröckenfuchs completed several foreign assignments as part of UN missions, for example in Cyprus ( UNFICYP ) and in Lebanon and Israel ( UNIFIL ).

In the 1980s, moved Gottfried Schröckenfuchs center of his life to Vorarlberg, where he for the first ÖVP in 1985 in the municipal council of his residence municipality Lochau worked. He also worked as Vice Mayor in Lochau for four years before he was first elected to the Vorarlberg State Parliament after the state elections in Vorarlberg in 1989 . Schröckenfuchs remained a member of parliament until he took office as Vorarlberg military commander.

On October 20, 2002, Brigadier Gottfried Schröckenfuchs took over the post of Vorarlberg military commander from his predecessor Major General Karl Redl . In 2009 Schröckenfuchs retired and temporarily handed over the office to Colonel Johannes Grißmann, who continued the function on an interim basis until Brigadier Ernst Konzett was appointed as the new military commander on January 29, 2010. From 2005 to 2017, Schröckenfuchs was one in his spare time Plenty of sports, President of the Vorarlberg Tennis Association.

In 2020, Gottfried Schröckenfuchs stated that he had written two fairy tale books for children in retirement and that he was volunteering at the Bregenz senior citizens ' exchange.

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  1. ^ Gerhard Nenning: Wolfgang Hämmerle elected as the new VTV President. In: VTV website. April 29, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ernest Enzelsberger: The honorary office in focus. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). February 10, 2020, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  4. ^ Silver medal for Schröckenfuchs. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . November 25, 2009, accessed February 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schröckenfuchs, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian military and politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament in Vorarlberg
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariahof