Harald Lettner

Harald Lettner (born April 21, 1945 in Salzburg ) is a former Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and lawyer . From 1984 to 1989 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament .

education and profession

Lettner attended elementary school in the Salzburg district of Maxglan between 1951 and 1955 and then graduated from the Academic Gymnasium in Salzburg from 1955 to 1963 . He passed the Matura at the Academic Gymnasium in 1963 and then did military service from 1963 to 1964 . In 1964 he began studying law at the University of Innsbruck , 1969, he was graduated with the doctorate to Dr. iur. to lock. He then completed his legal practice, was a trainee lawyer and successfully passed the bar exam in 1974. He then worked as an independent lawyer in Salzburg between 1975 and 2001.

Politics and functions

Lettner joined the Socialist Party of Salzburg in 1968 and was elected section chairman of the SPÖ Liefering-Mitte in 1977, where he held this position until 1987. He was also active from 1980 to 1988 as Salzburg's regional chairman of the Association of Social Democratic Academics, Intellectuals and Artists , worked within the party as a member of the regional party presidium of the Salzburg Social Democratic Party and was sworn in as a member of the Salzburg state parliament on September 19, 1984. He was a member of this until September 12, 1989, and in 1989 he was also the chairman of the Social Democratic Landtag Club. In the city of Salzburg Lettner had already worked as a member of the municipal council from 1977 to 1984, after which he was vice mayor of the city of Salzburg from 1989 to 1990. After Salzburg's mayor Josef Reschen had to resign in the course of the WEB scandal in 1990, Lettner was elected mayor of Salzburg in 1990. With his move to the mayor's office, however, he also inherited conflict-prone issues such as the design of the station forecourt and the renovation of the convention center, as well as internal party conflicts over the succession of Reschen. This led to a severe defeat in the local council elections on October 4, 1992 and the loss of the absolute majority, which is why Lettner resigned from the mayor's office in 1992. Until 1994, Lettner was only a member of the Salzburg City Council.

In other functions, Lettner was president of the Salzburg Adult Education Center from 1990 to 1992, chairman of the supervisory board of the Salzburger Sparkasse from 1990 to 1992 and a member of the supervisory board of GSWB from 1993 to 1998. From 1981 to 1989 he was a committee member of the Salzburg Bar Association, from 1978 to 2006 a member of the board of trustees of the “Pro Juventute Children's Village Association” and from 1995 to 1999 a member of the board of directors of “Rettet das Kind” and a member of the supervisory board of the “Verein Geselte Werkstätten”.

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .