Harald Vilimsky

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Harald Vilimsky (2019)

Harald Vilimsky (born July 22, 1966 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ ).

Vilimsky was a member of the Austrian National Council from October 2006 to the end of June 2014 . He was General Secretary of the FPÖ from 2006 to January 2020 and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014 .

Life

His mother was a nurse and raised him together with his stepfather, an insurance broker, in the Favoriten district of Vienna . He never met his birth father. From 1972 to 1976 he attended elementary school and from 1976 to 1981 high school. When Vilimsky was 16 years old, his mother passed away. After the lower school he attended a commercial academy , where he made his graduation . Then he began economic study, but he broke off. From 1988 to 1990 he attended a university course for public relations at the University of Vienna.

Vilimsky is married and has one daughter.

politics

After completing the university course, he worked in various positions as a press officer . First he worked for the Board of Trustees for Road Safety for a year , then from 1991 Vilimsky was a press officer in the National Council Club of the FPÖ . In 1995 the then FPÖ regional party leader Rainer Pawkowicz brought him into the club of the FPÖ parliamentary and local council faction in the Vienna City Hall . It was there that he met his future mentor and friend Heinz-Christian Strache . After Strache was elected as Vienna FPÖ chairman in March 2004, Harald Vilimsky became regional party secretary of the Vienna FPÖ and from then on directed the steps of the FPÖ Vienna to a considerable extent. Vilimsky was the ideological and content-wise head of the election program “Thinking Vienna further”.

This election manifesto earned Vilimsky dubious fame as the creator of a word creation. A six-member jury headed by Rudolf Muhr chose “negative immigration” - a term coined by Vilimsky - 2005 as the “ bad word of the year ”.

From November 2005 Vilimsky was Federal Councilor and thus the first new federal mandate of the FPÖ after the split between the FPÖ / BZÖ . After the National Council election on October 1, 2006 , Vilimsky moved from the Federal Council to the National Council and since then has been the FPÖ's traffic and consumer protection spokesman. From February 2006 to January 2020, Harald Vilimsky was also General Secretary of the FPÖ. Michael Schnedlitz was elected as his successor on January 30, 2020 .

In December 2008, Vilimsky caused a sensation through a controversial self- experiment in which a journalist also took part. In the presence of an emergency doctor , he was shot at by prison guards with a stun gun , which is used in prisons, for example to temporarily incapacitate aggressive prisoners, in order to convince the public of what, according to Vilimsky, is harmless.

2009 Vilimsky expressed to Operation Cast Lead and called " the silence of the Western community to the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip embarrassing ." These were " lobbying organizations of the Israeli " and condemned " the death toll at a civilian population differently, namely not when he of Israel goes out. “The author Anton Maegerle accuses these statements of anti-Zionist motives.

In the 2014 European elections , Vilimsky was presented together with Andreas Mölzer as the FPÖ's top candidate, after Mölzer's resignation from this position, Vilimsky was the sole top candidate. The FPÖ was able to gain seven percent in the election and thus sent four members to the European Parliament. Vilimsky was elected head of the FPÖ delegation.

Regarding George Soros , Vilimsky declared in 2016 "whom the speculator is counting on in the European Parliament". Heribert Schiedel classified this statement as anti-Semitic . In 2011 Vilimsky spoke of the " gamers [n] from the East Coast " (which acts in anti-Semitic jargon as a code word for a supposedly Jews controlled financial system).

As part of the coalition negotiation of ÖVP and FPÖ after the national elections in 2017 Harald Vilimsky was, next to Johann Gudenus , as one of those FPOe - politician called by President der Bellen Alexander Van would be dismissed as minister.

In July 2018 Vilimsky caused a stir when he EU - Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker alcoholism accused. Juncker was seen staggering and weak on his feet at the NATO summit on July 11 and 12, 2018. Vilimsky and other European right-wing populist politicians (including from the German AfD ) accused him of being drunk and called for Juncker's immediate resignation. According to Vilimsky, Juncker is making Europe “a laughing stock” with this behavior. For the AfD it was a "tragedy for the drunk President of the European Commission". The EU Commission then rejected and justified Juncker's appearance with "painful sciatica problems" as a result of the long-term consequences of a serious traffic accident that Juncker had in 1989. Numerous EU politicians (including ÖVP delegation leader Othmar Karas , EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn and many more ) condemned the allegations against Juncker as "extremely disrespectful". The Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen criticized Vilimsky's statements that they were "filthy". The fact that the Austrian federal government , especially Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz ( ÖVP ), does not take a position on this "harms Austria's reputation". “To say, to say nothing”, that is not enough. The ÖVP kept a low profile , neither Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz ( ÖVP ) nor government spokesman Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal or Chancellery Minister Gernot Blümel ( ÖVP ) wanted to make an official statement. The FPÖ, however, followed up and criticized President Van der Bellen's one-sided criticism. FPÖ General Secretary Christian Hafenecker said the Federal President was silent when, for example, SPÖ boss Christian Kern spoke of Austrofascism or when members of the youth union members of the FPÖ laid paving stones and grave lights in front of the door. He called on Van der Bellen to act in a non-partisan way. Harald Vilimsky described the Federal President as a “frustrated Greens ” who belonged to the EU establishment that he had always criticized. "He's been elected - but he's not acting bipartisan, he's not my president," said Harald Vilimsky. At the same time, he reiterated his allegations against Jean-Claude Juncker. Juncker himself said: "I laugh at your odds and ends, philosopher from a cheerful height". He wonders how many medically trained experts for sciatica there are in Austria. He confirmed that he was not drunk, that he had sciatica problems and additional leg cramps at the NATO summit. On July 18, 2018, Vilimsky said in a ZIB2 interview that the Federal President seems to be “completely blind in one eye”. "When other politicians who do not belong to his spectrum are attacked, they are called water corpses or bastards", Van der Bellen is silent. Federal President Van der Bellen "obviously wants to help his friends who have failed in parliament," said Vilimsky. Van der Bellens non-partisanship as Federal President was "expandable". Experts such as the political scientist Fritz Plasser and the political advisor Thomas Hofer also spoke out in the case of Vilimsky-Juncker in the ORF.at interview. Justice Minister Josef Moser ( no party affiliation , from the People's Party nominated) said on July 21, 2018 the Ö1 telecast in the Journal as a guest , "it said everything."

On April 23, 2019 came - during a ZIB2 interview ahead of the European elections - an uproar between Vilimsky and ORF - Moderator Armin Wolf . He compared a cartoon by the Styrian Ring Freedom Youth (RFÖ) - in which a local family in green costume is threatened by sinister immigrants with long hooked noses, beards and humps - with the depiction of a Jew from the Nazi campaign journal “ Der Stürmer ”. Vilimsky was indignant; he saw his party getting close to National Socialism . "This is something that cannot remain without consequences," he said threateningly to Wolf and the ORF. He spoke of " left networks " that acted against the FPÖ and a lack of objectivity and independent reporting by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). Only right-wing extremist "individual cases" (excitement about the Identitarian Movement and FPÖ demarcation, Braunauer "rat poem", which led to the resignation of the local vice mayor , etc.) are continually reported unilaterally and politically . After these incidents and debates, Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen warned via Twitter of "poisoning the political climate". Agitation is "unacceptable". Politicians from governing parties in particular should pay particular attention to their choice of words.

Vilimsky is treasurer of the European party Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom and Deputy Chairman of the Europe of Nations and Freedom Group in the European Parliament.

Web links

Commons : Harald Vilimsky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ A b Herbert Neubauer: Harald Vilimsky resigns as General Secretary of the FPÖ. In: DiePresse.com . January 8, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Oliver Pink : Vilimsky: Strache's man for the rough goes to Brussels. In: The press. January 7, 2014, accessed June 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Michael Schnedlitz becomes the new FPÖ General Secretary. In: Wiener Zeitung . January 8, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Schnedlitz unanimously elected FPÖ General Secretary. In: Upper Austrian news . January 30, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  5. ^ Kurier : "High voltage after Taser test", December 7, 2008
  6. ↑ Vilimsky condemns Austria's embarrassing silence to Israeli aggression. www.ots.at, January 2, 2009
  7. ↑ Anton Maegerle: From Obersalzberg to NSU : The extreme right and the political culture of the Federal Republic 1988-2013. Edition Critic, Berlin 2013, p. 264 f.
  8. ↑ Heribert Schiedel: “Anti-Semitism and Völkische Ideologie. Is the FPÖ a right-wing extremist party? ”In: Stephan Grigat (ed.): AfD & FPÖ. Anti-Semitism, ethnic nationalism and gender images. Interdisciplinary Research on Antisemitism, Vol. 7. Facultas, Baden-Baden 2017, pp. 105, 111
  9. ↑ Gudenus and Vilimsky not ministrabel , article on ORF .at from November 15, 2017
  10. ↑ political education de: Jean-Claude Juncker drunk again. July 12, 2018, accessed July 18, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Sharp criticism of Vilimsky after the attack on Juncker . In: news.ORF.at . July 13, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  12. ^ Commission: Juncker had a sciatica attack at the NATO summit . In: news.ORF.at . July 13, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  13. ^ ÖVP is silent, FPÖ adds . In: news.ORF.at . July 18, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  14. ↑ EU Commission leaves Vilimsky's call for resignation cold . In: news.ORF.at . July 16, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Sharp criticism of Vilimsky after the attack on Juncker . In: news.ORF.at . July 13, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Van der Bellen criticizes the government . In: news.ORF.at . July 17, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  17. ^ ÖVP is silent, FPÖ adds . In: news.ORF.at . July 18, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Juncker is astonished by Austria's expertise in sciatica . In: news.ORF.at . July 18, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  19. ^ ÖVP is silent, FPÖ adds . In: news.ORF.at . July 18, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  20. ↑ Juncker is astonished by Austria's expertise in sciatica . In: news.ORF.at . July 18, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  21. ^ ÖVP is silent, FPÖ adds . In: news.ORF.at . July 18, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  22. ↑ Vilimsky intensifies criticism of Van der Bellen . In: news.ORF.at . July 19, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 19, 2018]).
  23. ^ From ÖVP silence and FPÖ noise . In: news.ORF.at . July 20, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 21, 2018]).
  24. ↑ Moser does not break the silence either . In: news.ORF.at . July 21, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 21, 2018]).
  25. ^ Scandal in the interview: Vilimsky (FPÖ) threatens Wolf. April 23, 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Styrian RFJ subject causes a stir. April 24, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Vilimsky versus Wolf: "Bottom Drawer". April 24, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  28. ↑ tagesschau.de: FPÖ politician threatens ORF moderator because of critical questions. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Vilimsky steps after: "Would put Wolf in front of the door" | krone.at. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  30. ^ ORF at / Agencies red: EU election: FPÖ top candidate Vilimsky attacks ORF. April 24, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  31. ↑ daniela.kittner: Wrabetz versus Vilimsky: "Don't let me call out anything". Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  32. ↑ ORF at / agencies red: Right-wing extremists: Causa identitarians disrupts coalition harmony. April 3, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  33. ↑ ORF at / agencies red: points of contact: the FPÖ and the identities. April 3, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  34. ↑ ORF at / agencies red: Identitäre and FPÖ: Strache sees “clear dividing line”. April 6, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  35. ↑ ORF at / Agencies jkla: Right-wing extremism: Excitement about donations to identities. April 12, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  36. ↑ Outrage over "rat poem" by the FPÖ. April 22, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  37. ^ But resignation after "Rat Poem". April 23, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  38. ↑ ORF at / agencies red: “Rattengedicht”: Warning of “poisoning the climate”. April 24, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  39. ↑ 10:51 a.m., April 24, 2019: After the Vice Chancellor was summoned: Van der Bellen warns against division through language. April 24, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  40. ^ Board Members - Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 25, 2017 ; Retrieved April 11, 2018 (American English). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.menleuropa.eu
  41. ↑ Harald VILIMSKY | Home | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved April 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Vilimsky, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the National Council, member of the Federal Council, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna