Hans Niessl

Hans Niessl (2015)

Hans Niessl (2016)

Hans Niessl (actually Nießl ; born June 12, 1951 in Zurndorf ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). He was from 2000 to 2019 Governor of Burgenland .

Life

Hans Niessl initially worked as a primary and secondary school teacher, then until 1996 as director of the Frauenkirchen secondary school. From 1984 to 2000, from 1987 as mayor , he was on the municipal council of Frauenkirchen . From 1996 to 2000 he was a member of parliament and from 1999 to 2000 also as club chairman of the SPÖ in the Burgenland state parliament . He is the deputy federal party chairman of the SPÖ and is assigned to the right wing of the SPÖ within the party.

In the state elections on October 9, 2005 , the SPÖ under Hans Niessl achieved historic electoral success and, for the first time since the 1980s, won an absolute majority in the mandate with over 52 percent of the vote.

In the 2015 state elections , the SPÖ, with Hans Niessl as the top candidate, received 41.92 percent of the votes and has since formed a coalition with the FPÖ in Burgenland. At a state party conference of the SPÖ Burgenland on September 8, 2018 in Oberwart , Hans Niessl resigned from his position as Burgenland party leader of the Social Democrats to Hans Peter Doskozil and at the same time announced that he would also replace him as Burgenland governor on February 28, 2019.

In November 2019 he was elected as the successor to Rudolf Hundstorfer, who died in August 2019, as President of the Austrian Federal Sports Organization (BSO).

Niessl is divorced and has a son from the divorced marriage.

Awards

• 2003: Grand Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna with the Star
• 2004: Large silver medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
• 2008: Honorary doctorate from the European University of Belgrade
• 2011: Large Golden Decoration on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria (presented on March 3, 2011)
• 2011: Ring of honor of the Frauenkirchen community and honorary citizen of the community
• 2012: Great Cross of Merit of the Austrian Federal Fire Brigade Association
• 2016: Golden Commander's Cross with the Star of Honor for Services to the Federal State of Lower Austria

Publications

• Georg Pehm (ed.): Hans Niessl: The rise continues. In conversation with Georg Pehm and Feri Tschank. With a foreword by Heinz Fischer . edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 2010, ISBN 978-3-9901600-1-5 .

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 3: (1996-2001) (= Burgenland Research. 84). Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 2001, ISBN 3-901517-29-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State election proposals for the state elections in Burgenland on May 31, 2015 , Burgenland state election authority, May 6, 2015, (PDF).
2. ^ End of an era: Niessl adopted. February 28, 2019, accessed February 28, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Hans Niessl and the red-blue laboratory in Burgenland. In: DiePresse.com. January 4, 2017, accessed January 12, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Niessl resigns as head of the Burgenland region on February 28th. In: derStandard.at . September 8, 2018, accessed September 8, 2018 . 
5. ^ Burgenland's ex-governor Niessl new BSO president. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . November 8, 2019, accessed November 8, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Hans Niessl shows his new girlfriend for the first time , Today, July 4, 2018.
7. ↑ ^{a b} List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
8. ↑ orf.at - Pröll awards Niessl the highest order . Article dated September 26, 2016, accessed September 26, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Hans Niessl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hans Niessl on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• BF archive: Hans Niessl takes over office from Karl Stix
• Entry on Hans Niessl in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )