Harald Wögerbauer

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Harald Wögerbauer (born July 27, 1953 in Vienna / Austria) is an Austrian lawyer , economist and politician (ÖVP). From April 1, 2011 to February 28, 2014, he was a member of the Bureau of the European Court of Auditors in Luxembourg.

Life

From 1963 to 1971 Wögerbauer attended the grammar school of the Theresian Academy in Vienna, where he passed his school leaving examination in 1971. From 1971 to 1972 he did military service in the Austrian Armed Forces, at the same time he began studying law and economics in 1971 and graduated in 1974 with a master's degree and doctorate.

After completing his law studies, Wögerbauer began his professional career at the Austrian Court of Audit . From 1974 to 1979 he examined the Austrian social security institutions in particular .

Career in the Austrian Parliament

In 1979 he took up his work in parliament as an employee of the ÖVP parliamentary club, but also remained an official of the Austrian Court of Auditors. From 1986 to 2011 Wögerbauer was deputy club director and from 1992 to 2011 political director of the ÖVP parliamentary club. As political director of the parliamentary group, Wögerbauer was entrusted, among other things, with the coordination between the ÖVP parliamentary club, the federal government, the federal party leadership, the ÖVP state parliament clubs and the state parties.

For years he was a member of the Fundamental Rights Reform Commission, the regional and cable broadcasting authority, the private broadcasting authority and the federal electoral authority. From 1994 to 2011 Wögerbauer was deputy chairman or chairman of the data protection council.

Wögerbauer was political director of the ÖVP parliamentary club during the review of the return and compensation practice in Austria with regard to stolen art objects and expropriations made to the former owners or their heirs during the Nazi era. The problem entered a broader public discussion for the first time in early 1998, triggered by the seizure of the Schiele pictures Wally and Tote Stadt III in New York on January 1, 1998. Taking this into account, a legal commission was convened by the Federal Chancellery, the Wögerbauer as And which first met in July 1998. The work of the commission finally culminated on December 4, 1998 in the enactment of the federal law on the return of works of art from Austrian federal museums and collections and the establishment of an art restitution advisory board. As a result, there were much acclaimed publications, such as those of 224 works of art to the heirs of Louis Rothschild in February 1999 or those of the five paintings by Gustav Klimt to the heiress of the Bloch-Bauer family, Maria Altmann , in May 2006.

Career at the European Court of Auditors

On April 1, 2011, Wögerbauer took up his position as a member of the European Court of Auditors . He was proposed for this position by a large majority in the main committee of the Austrian National Council as well as in the budget and control committee and in the plenary session of the European Parliament . On March 3, 2011, the European Council appointed him a member of the Bureau of the European Court of Auditors.

Wögerbauer ended his function as a member of the European Court of Auditors on February 28, 2014. His own party prevented a second term of office that he was aiming for.

The decision to send Wögerbauer to the European Court of Auditors caused public criticism. Peter Pilz criticized the decision as "the worst party book economy". The level of his salary was also criticized. In addition to the basic salary of 19,500 euros per month, there would be a series of allowances, whereby, according to Pilz, Wögerbauer would get “at least 23,000 euros”. That is more than the salary of the Federal Chancellor and the Federal President.

further activities

Wögerbauer was also Secretary General of the Austrian-Korean Society from 1984 to 2011 and has been its Honorary Board member since 2011. In 1999, Wögerbauer founded the Austrian-Korean Philharmonic together with the then President of the Society, Heinrich Neisser, and the then Korean Ambassador in Vienna, Ban Ki-Moon . He is a member of the board of the Austro-Russian Society and a member and honorary holder of the umbrella organization of all Austrian-foreign societies - PaN.

Awards

  • Gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria
  • Great badge of honor for services to the Republic of Austria
  • Order of Diplomatic Service Merit / Changui Medal of the Republic of Korea
  • Great Patriotic Order of the Republic of China

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 6, 2017 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeskanzleramt.at
  2. ↑ https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20110328_OTS0223/datenschutzrat-waehlt-neue-stellvertretende-vorsitzende
  3. ↑ Gabriele Anderl: ... significantly more cases than assumed. Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78183-7 , p. 42 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20101221_OTS0036/dr-harald-woegerbauer-wird-oesterreichisches-praesidiumshaben-im-europaeischen-rechnungshof
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 1, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eu-infothek.com
  6. ↑ Wögerbauer fights for lucrative EU positions. In: derStandard.at. July 23, 2013, accessed December 19, 2017 .
  7. ↑ http://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/oesterreich/politik/591592_Lukrativer-EU-Job- geht-von-OeVP-an- OeVP.html
  8. ↑ RH section head Herics becomes Wögerbauer's successor. In: DiePresse.com. December 2, 2013, accessed January 26, 2018 .
  9. ↑ http://www.news.at/a/mehr-geld-herr-bundespraesident-harald-woegerbauer-bruessel-284905
  10. ↑ http://www.wienerzeitung.at/mappen/portraets/27039_Harald-Woegerbauer.html
  11. ↑ http://www.oesterreich-korea.at
  12. ↑ http://www.akpo.at
  13. ↑ http://www.orfg.net/?lang=de&page=7-vorstand-der-orfg&m=21&
  14. ↑ http://www.dachverband-pan.org/ueber-pan/ehrungen/
personal data
SURNAME Wögerbauer, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, economist and politician (ÖVP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria