Harald Mahrer

Harald Mahrer (2014)

Harald Mahrer (born March 27, 1973 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ), functionary , entrepreneur and publicist . Since December 2017 he has been President of the ÖVP Economic Association , since May 2018 President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO) and since June 2018 member of the Presidium of Österreichische Sporthilfe as well as President of the Economic Research Institute (WIFO) and was chairman of the social insurance institute for commercial enterprises until the end of 2019 ( SVA). He has also been President of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank since September 1, 2018 .

Mahrer is also the owner and managing partner of HM Tauern Holding Beteiligungsgesellschaft . From 2014 to 2017, Mahrer was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy in the Federal Government Faymann II ( SPÖ- ÖVP coalition) under Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner (ÖVP) . In the following Federal Government of Kern (SPÖ-ÖVP), after Mitterlehner's resignation, he himself rose to the post of minister from May 17 to December 18, 2017.

Life

After graduating from the Realgymnasium Wien-Krottenbachstraße, Harald Mahrer studied business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna) from 1991 to 1998 . During his studies he was active in student politics, a member of the ÖVP-related action group and in 1995 its executive chairman. From 1995 to 1997 he was ÖH chairman at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He then worked there as an assistant to the rector and as a research assistant at the Institute for Information Technology. In 2000 he received his doctorate in social and economic sciences.

Entrepreneur

In the same year he founded the management consultancy firm legend Consulting , which was taken over by the PR agency Pleon Publico in 2005 , where he was a managing partner from 2006 to the end of 2010. During this time, an order from the Carinthian Bank Hypo Alpe Adria falls , according to which the agency managed by Mahrer carried out public relations work for its chairman Wolfgang Kulterer and against the Financial Market Authority (FMA), which investigated for falsification of accounts in the course of speculative losses amounting to around 328 million euros the bank had taken.

From 2011 to 2013 he was one of the managing directors of the management consultancy he founded, cumclave . In addition, he became the sole shareholder and managing director of HM Tauern Holding Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH , based in Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia , where his wife is managing director of the associated private hospital.

Political and state-related areas

From 1999 to 2000 Mahrer was spokesman and project manager for the Go on - Austria to the Internet initiative launched by the then Federal Chancellor Viktor Klima (SPÖ, Federal Climate Government , an SPÖ-ÖVP coalition) . During the time of the federal government Schüssel II ( ÖVP-FPÖ coalition ) he was a member of the government's e-government board from 2003 to 2005 and completed the 6th strategic leadership course at the national defense academy . In addition, he founded the think tank Demokratie.morgen and in 2004 the Metis Institute for Economic and Political Research, which he headed as one of the directors until 2013.

politics

From 2011 he was President of the Julius Raab Foundation, which is located in the vicinity of the ÖVP . During this time he published several books in the Noir publishing house of the political academy of the ÖVP . In 2014 he founded the Association of Charitable Foundations . When Sebastian Kurz , then Foreign Minister in the Federal Government Faymann II (SPÖ-ÖVP), became President of the ÖVP's Political Academy in September 2015, Mahrer moved there as one of the deputy chairmen.

After Michael Spindelegger's resignation in August 2014, Reinhold Mitterlehner became his successor as Minister of Economics and Vice Chancellor in the Faymann II federal government and in the role of ÖVP federal party leader. A new State Secretariat was set up in the ministry, which Mahrer took over. In accordance with the Incompatibility Act, he gave up his management activity at HM Tauern Holding , transferred it to his wife, but remained the owner of the company. As announced in the official gazette , the company was subject to a public contract prohibition for the period of its activity in the federal government (no federal contracts or companies controlled by the audit office ).

In February 2016 he became Vice President of the ÖVP Economic Association . After Mitterlehner's resignation in May 2017, Mahrer succeeded him as Minister in the Federal Government Kern , and the State Secretariat was dissolved. In November he was designated as the new President by the Presidium of the Wirtschaftsbund and was elected to this position with around 95 percent of the votes at an extraordinary General Assembly in December 2017.

Mahrer was not a member of the Kurz I federal government (ÖVP-FPÖ coalition) formed after the 2017 National Council election in December . On January 2nd, 2018, he took over the role of managing director of his HM Tauern Holding . After the resignation of Christoph Leitl , who has been in office since 2000 , Mahrer became President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce in May 2018 . He has been a member of the Presidium of Austrian Sports Aid since June 2018 . In June 2018 he succeeded Leitl as chairman of the social insurance institute for the commercial economy (SVA) and most recently as president of the economic research institute (WIFO). End of August 2018 he was during the first Council of Ministers of the ÖVP-FPÖ government after the summer break as the designated president of the Austrian National Bank presents, where he 1 September Claus Raidl replaced. In June 2020, Mahrer was appointed President of the Economic Chamber by the Economic Parliament for another five years.

Private life

Harald Mahrer is married to the entrepreneur Andrea Elisabeth Samonigg-Mahrer. He lives in Vienna and Spittal an der Drau .

Publications

• as editor with Johannes Krall, Richard Lernbass, Christoph Neumayer, Oliver Stauber: Philanthropie 2.0 (=  Finance & Ethics . Volume 3 ). PL Academic Research, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-67122-1 .
• as editor: What if ...? 10 years black green . A speculation , Julius Raab Foundation, Verlag Noir, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503483-1-6
• Property. We are for it. Verlag Noir of the Julius Raab Foundation, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503483-2-3 .
• with Harald Katzmair: The formula of power. Ecowin , Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7110-0003-3 .
• Freedom. Responsibility. Solidarity. Equity of opportunity. Honesty: we are for it. Verlag Noir of the Julius Raab Foundation, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502494-1-5 .
• More freedom. More responsibility. Novum Pro ( self-published ), Neckenmarkt 2009, ISBN 978-3-99003-197-1 .
• as editor: Austria 2050. Czernin , Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-7076-0059-9 .

Web links

Commons : Harald Mahrer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Harald Mahrer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Harald Mahrer on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Bang Effect in the PR Industry , Format , August 14, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Der Standard : WKO boss Mahrer becomes President of the National Bank , 22 August 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Der Standard : Schelling and Mahrer have reorganized private investments , November 20, 2014.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Austrian Parliament : Biography of Mag. Harald Mahrer , accessed on August 22, 2018.
4. ↑ Website of the ÖVP: Dr. Harald Mahrer ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. , Retrieved September 1, 2014. 
5. ↑ Der Standard : Campaign against FMA: State Secretary Mahrer was involved , December 22, 2015, accessed on August 22, 2018.
6. ↑ Der Standard : Harald Mahrer: Fresh wind for the dusty Chamber of Commerce , May 18, 2018, accessed on August 22, 2018.
7. ↑ Monitor (IT-Magazin) : Iniative: Österreich ans Internet - Go on Internet , accessed on August 22, 2018
8. ↑ ^{a b} Austrian Media Days 2018: Harald Mahrer's résumé , accessed on August 22, 2018.
9. ↑ Harald Mahrer becomes the new President of the Chamber of Commerce. In: The press. November 2, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Mahrer succeeds Leitl as President of the Chamber of Commerce. In: Courier. November 2, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2017 . 
11. ↑ orf.at: Mahrer elected as the new head of the Wirtschaftsbund . Article dated December 18, 2017, accessed December 18, 2017.
12. ^ Upper Austrian news: the Leitl era over: Mahrer is the new President of the Chamber of Commerce . ( nachrichten.at [accessed on May 18, 2018]).
13. ↑ orf.at: Mahrer also replaced Leitl as SVA chairman . Article dated June 20, 2018, accessed June 21, 2018.
14. ↑ orf.at: WIFO: Mahrer now instead of Leitl President . Article dated July 3, 2018.
15. ↑ orf.at: new appointments to the supervisory board . Article dated August 22, 2018, accessed August 22, 2018.
16. ^ Mahrer was President of the Austrian Economic Chamber for another five years. In: ORF.at . June 25, 2020, accessed June 25, 2020 .