Hans Ager

Hans Ager (born October 23, 1949 in Itter , Tyrol ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ).

education and profession

After primary school in his home town of Itter , Ager attended secondary school in Hopfgarten from 1960 to 1964 , before completing an apprenticeship as a cook from 1964 to 1967 . After his military service , Ager initially worked in this profession before setting up his own business as an innkeeper in 1982 . Ager had previously studied operations and personnel management at Neckermann Management College in Weggis, Switzerland .

Political offices

Ager has been a member of Itter's municipal council since 1985. Since 1990 he has been deputy chairman of the Tyrolean regional group of the Austrian Economic Association (ÖWB), representing the interests of small and medium-sized entrepreneurs within the ÖVP . From 1993 to 2002 he headed the district organization of the ÖWB in the Kitzbühel district .

On July 1, 1999, Ager entered the Federal Council for the Tyrolean ÖVP for the first time , to which he was a member until June 30, 2008. From July to December 2003 he was its rotating president . The main focus of his work lay in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, of which he was Chairman with a few interruptions from November 2003 to June 2008, as well as the Committee on Economy and Labor and the Finance Committee.

Honors

Ager has been the recipient of the Great Silver Medal of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria since May 2009 .

Federal Council Chairmanship 2008

In the first half of 2008, Ager was again scheduled as President of the Federal Council. The Tyrolean governor Herwig van Staa tried to persuade Ager to resign in order to free Ager's mandate and presidential function for the former VP managing director Georg Keuschnigg . Van Staa relied on an alleged written declaration by Ager to resign at any time if his mandate was needed.

Ager refused to give up his mandate. Using Lex Kampl , the Tyrolean state parliament decided to rearrange its federal councilors, thereby making the 79-year-old senior citizen's chairman Helmut Kritzinger President of the Federal Council. Ager, who saw this as a personal punishment by the governor, then sharply criticized his party friend van Staa as a "power-hungry feudal lord" in a Federal Council meeting. Ager's criticism met with great media coverage and, in particular, earned him the sympathy of the SPÖ .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.ots.at
2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
3. ↑ Tyrol VP scandal at the first Federal Council meeting , orf.at.

Web links

• Hans Ager on the website of the Austrian Parliament

predecessor	Office	successor
Herwig Hösele	President of the Austrian Federal Council July 1, 2003 - December 31, 2003	Jürgen Weiss