Hans Jörg Schimanek

Hans Jörg Schimanek (2006)

Hans Jörg Schimanek (born March 23, 1940 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist and politician ( SPÖ , FPÖ , BZÖ , WIFF ). From 1998 to 2000 he was FPÖ regional party leader in Lower Austria. In addition, he was the first free regional councilor in a government in Lower Austria .

Life

journalist

After graduating from high school , Hans Jörg Schimanek worked from 1959 as a journalist for the Salzburger Volkszeitung and from 1961 for the Neue Tageszeitung , before joining the ORF as a sports editor in 1964 . Until 1977 he worked in the current service of ORF. He was responsible for the show Arguments , whose journalistic team received the Konrad Lorenz Prize in 1990 .

Politician

From 1970 to 1989 Schimanek was a member of the SPÖ and, after leaving, ran his own OPAL list of citizens in Langenlois (Lower Austria), whereupon he became an environmental councilor. He resigned this office because of the legal proceedings against his son Hans Jörg Schimanek jun. (* 1963), who was later sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment in February 1992 for re - activating the neo-Nazi group Loyalty to the People's Extra-Parliamentary Opposition . The younger son is Rene Schimanek (* 1969), currently FPÖ City Councilor of Langenlois and head of cabinet of the Federal Minister for Infrastructure Norbert Hofer .

For June 7, 1993 ( XIV. GP ) and April 16, 1998 ( XV. GP ), Hans Jörg Schimanek was elected to the Lower Austrian state parliament. From 1993 to 1999 he was regional councilor in the Pröll II and Pröll III cabinets ; thereafter he was a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament until June 28, 2000. From June 1998 to June 2000 he acted as FPÖ regional party leader in Lower Austria. In 2001 he became a district councilor in Vienna-Floridsdorf. In the Viennese state elections in March 2005 , he was nominated as a top candidate for a joint list FPÖ-OPAL. In May 2005, in the course of the split in the FPÖ, on April 4, 2005, he was excluded from the FPÖ and BZÖ and he gave up the local council.

In June 2005 he joined the BZÖ. In the district council election in Vienna in 2005 , he became district councilor in Floridsdorf. He was unsuccessful top candidate of the BZÖ in the state election in Lower Austria in 2008 . On June 24, 2008, he was expelled from the BZÖ Vienna for “years of intrigue”.

In 2010 he founded the "completely independent political party" WIFF - We for Floridsdorf and has been its chairman ever since. In this function, he collects signatures for the preservation of the police station in Strebersdorf: “With our signature campaign for the preservation of the Strebersdorf police station planned for closure, we received the trust of more than 14,000 Floridsdorfers, the closure was canceled and should be in 2016/17 a new inspection will be built in Strebersdorf. ”In 2010, WIFF received two district councils and in 2015 three district councils.

family

Hans Jörg Schimanek is married and has two sons. He has lived in Langenlois since 1974.

Panel discussion

How right is Austria? Club 2 ( ORF ), May 11, 2011, host: Peter Rabl , guests: Hans Jörg Schimanek, Georg Zanger , Nina Horaczek , Wolfgang Jung , Sieglinde Rosenberger

literature

A portrait of Hans-Jörg Schimanek: From FPÖ Lower Austria to BZÖ Vienna , in: News , September 13, 2005.

Web links

Hans Jörg Schimanek on the website of the Landtag of Lower Austria
We for Floridsdorf (WIFF) homepage

Individual evidence

^ Stefan Eminger, Ernst Langthaler (Ed.): Lower Austria in the 20th century . Volume 1: Politics . Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78197-4 , p. 731.
^ ^A ^b Ernst Bezemek , Michael Dippelreiter: Political Elites in Lower Austria. A biographical handbook from 1921 to the present . Böhlau, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78586-6 , p. 299. (= Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek: Series of publications of the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of Dr.-Wilfried -Haslauer Library, Salzburg, vol. 38)
^ "Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism" Foundation Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance (ed.) , Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance , accessed on August 11, 2013.
↑ Ulrich Ladurner : That's how it is and no different! , in: Die Zeit , August 3, 2000.
↑ ORF.at - ORF article from June 24, 2008
^ Regionalmedien Austria: WIFF Wir für Floridsdorf - an interview with Hans Jörg Schimanek . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed April 11, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Schimanek, Hans Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian journalist and politician (SPÖ, FPÖ, BZÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna

[1] Stefan Eminger, Ernst Langthaler (Ed.): Lower Austria in the 20th century . Volume 1: Politics . Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78197-4 , p. 731.

[Handbuch-2] A ^b Ernst Bezemek , Michael Dippelreiter: Political Elites in Lower Austria. A biographical handbook from 1921 to the present . Böhlau, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78586-6 , p. 299. (= Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek: Series of publications of the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of Dr.-Wilfried -Haslauer Library, Salzburg, vol. 38)

[3] "Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism" Foundation Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance (ed.) , Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance , accessed on August 11, 2013.

[4] Ulrich Ladurner : That's how it is and no different! , in: Die Zeit , August 3, 2000.

[5] ORF.at - ORF article from June 24, 2008

[6] Regionalmedien Austria: WIFF Wir für Floridsdorf - an interview with Hans Jörg Schimanek . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed April 11, 2018]).