Hans Peter Haselsteiner

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Hans Peter Haselsteiner (Vienna 2008)

Hans Peter Haselsteiner (born February 1, 1944 in Wörgl ) is an Austrian industrialist and former politician ( LIF ).

education

After graduating from high school in 1963, Hans Peter Haselsteiner studied commercial science at the University of World Trade in Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1970 .

Entrepreneurial career

After working for an auditor and tax auditor, he joined his father-in-law's construction company, Isola & Lerchbaumer (later Ilbau), in 1972. From this company the Strabag group emerged through acquisitions and mergers , in which he held various positions and which he controlled through the majority owner Fimag Finanz Industrie Management AG.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Haselsteiner became CEO of Ilbau AG. From 1998 he was CEO of Bau Holding. From 2006 to 2013, Haselsteiner was CEO of Strabag SE. On June 14, 2013 Haselsteiner resigned from the top management.

In January 2016 it became known that Haselsteiner was joining the Remus Sebring Group as a majority shareholder together with Stephan Zöchling .

Haselsteiner is co-owner and member of the supervisory board of Rail Holding AG, which was founded in 2008 and operates a railway company in competition with ÖBB, WESTbahn .

A wider public was Haselsteiner also through its participation as an investor in the pulse 4 Start-Up -Show 2 minutes, 2 million known.

politics

Hans Peter Haselsteiner at a press conference with Alexander Zach and Heide Schmidt in 2008

Hans Peter Haselsteiner was a member of the Austrian National Council from 1994 to 1998 , including deputy chairman of the Liberal Forum parliamentary club from 1996 to 1998 . Other functions were Chamber Council of the Federal Chamber of Commerce and Member of the Association of the Austrian Construction Industry (in the WKÖ) since 1994, Chairman since 2002.

In the National Council election in 2008 the Liberal Forum ran again unsuccessfully, Haselsteiner was involved as financier of the election campaign, as economic spokesman for the LIF and chairman of the support committee for top candidate Heide Schmidt .

In the 2013 National Council election , he supported the NEOS electoral alliance financially and as a ministerial candidate . The electoral alliance moved into the National Council, after which NEOS and LIF merged in January 2014 to form the new party Neos - The New Austria and Liberal Forum.

In the runoff election for the 2016 federal presidential election , Haselsteiner supported the independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen with € 50,000. In the first election campaign to repeat the runoff election that the Constitutional Court had overturned before it was postponed, Haselsteiner supported Van der Bellen with a donation of € 100,000, then took position for the candidate several times with an advertising campaign and also ran a large-scale media campaign against the FPÖ -Candidate Norbert Hofer by, among other things, published a video in which he warned of Austria's possible exit from the EU (“ Öxit ”) after Hofer's election. This video sparked discussions in politics and on social media. The media anti-FPÖ or anti-Hofer campaign was temporarily interrupted due to the postponement of the repetition of the runoff election and continued in November 2016 in TV spots and newspaper advertisements with the supporters Christian Konrad , Brigitte Ederer and Franz Fischler .

He also supported the NEOS party financially in the 2017 National Council election .

social commitment

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Since the LIF left the National Council, Haselsteiner financially supported the “Institute for an Open Society” founded by Heide Schmidt , a non-party private foundation. In 2009 the institute was closed.

Haselsteiner enabled the expansion of 16 residential communities with 29 residential spaces from the VinziRast-CortiHaus in Vienna, a homeless shelter founded by Wolfgang Pucher and Cecily Corti .

Half of his private foundation financed Father Georg Sporschill's social centers for elderly and needy people in Moldova , the other half was provided by the Republic of Austria.

In the summer of 2008, Haselsteiner saved Ute Bock's refugee project in Vienna from bankruptcy with a large donation. In October 2019, he announced that he would make an abandoned and auctioned gourmet restaurant in Mayerling Vinzirast available.

honors and awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Haselsteiner: "I am proud of our roots". ( Memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: KleineZeitung.at. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
  2. ↑ Günter Fritz: Raiffeisen gives Strabag the necessary financial backing. ( Memento from September 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Wirtschaftsblatt.at. February 16, 2005, accessed May 2, 2012.
  3. ↑ Raiffeisen Business Report (PDF; 1.63 MB). Retrieved May 2, 2012.
  4. ^ Changing of the guard in Vienna. Strabag gets a new boss from Germany. In: Handelsblatt.com. April 29, 2013, accessed May 1, 2013.
  5. ↑ majority shareholder. Haselsteiner joins Remus. ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.firmenflotte.at archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. At: Firmenflotte.at. January 4, 2016, accessed on January 14, 2016.
  6. ↑ NEOS sends Haselsteiner into the election race. At: ORF .at. 5th September 2013.
  7. ↑ Haselsteiner: "I gave less than a million". ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Kleine Zeitung . September 30th, 2013.
  8. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Donation campaign and "citizens' movement" for Van der Bellen. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Haselsteiner donates 100,000 euros for Van der Bellen. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  10. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Haselsteiner adds in the campaign against Hofer. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Öxit campaign: Haselsteiner mobilized against Hofer. September 8, 2016, accessed October 6, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Haselsteiner warns of Hofer via video. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Airport: Haselsteiner is withdrawing. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  14. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Haselsteiner pauses anti-Hofer campaign due to possible postponement of the election. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  15. ↑ http://www.vienna.at/nein-zum-oexit-neue-unterstuetzer-fuer-haselsteiners-anti-hofer-kampagne/5012050
  16. ^ Court of Auditors: Party donations. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Festspielhaus Erl officially opened. At: ORF.at. December 27, 2012, accessed December 27, 2012.
  18. ^ Club Tirol: Tyrolean of the Year ( Memento from September 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 13, 2018.

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SURNAME Haselsteiner, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian industrialist and politician (LIF), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Worgl