Hartwig Löger

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Hartwig Löger (2017)

Hartwig Löger (born July 15, 1965 in Selzthal , Styria ) is an Austrian manager and a former politician ( ÖVP ).

From December 18, 2017, he was Federal Minister of Finance and from May 22, he was Vice Chancellor in the Federal Government of Kurz I for a few days . On May 28, 2019, he was entrusted with the continuation of the administration in the Federal Ministry of Finance and with the chairmanship of the provisional Federal Government of Löger and the continuation of administration in the Federal Chancellery . This made Löger - in accordance with the Federal Constitution - provisional Federal Chancellor. He remained in these functions until the Federal Government of Bierlein sworn in on June 3, 2019.

From 2011 to 2017 Löger was CEO of UNIQA Austria (from 2013 UNIQA Austria Insurance AG ).

Life

Hartwig Löger, son of a third generation railway worker, grew up in Selzthal in Styria and graduated from Admont Abbey High School in 1983 . Originally he wanted to become a pilot , he started an officer candidate training with the armed forces and took the pilot entrance exam. However, he failed due to a knee injury and came into the insurance industry by chance. 1987–1989 he completed the university course for insurance business at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and from 1999 to 2001 an international management course (IMEA) at the University of St. Gallen .

Löger worked as a customer advisor at an insurance broker from 1985 to 1989, then sales manager for Styria at Allianz Versicherungs AG until 1996 , then assistant to the management at Grazer Wechselseiten until 1997 and sales manager at Donau Versicherung AG until 2002 . From 2002 to 2017 he worked for the UNIQA Insurance Group , initially as Managing Director of UNIQA International Versicherungs-Holding GmbH until 2005 and as Head of Exclusive Sales for the Group until 2011. In 2011 he became a board member of UNIQA Versicherungen AG and CEO of UNIQA Austria (since 2013 UNIQA Österreich Versicherungen AG ), where Kurt Svoboda succeeded in December 2017.

Since September 2011 he has been a member of the Vienna regional organization of the VP- Wirtschaftsbund . He is also a member of the Catholic secondary school association Markomannia-Eppenstein in the Middle Schools Cartel Association (MKV), his couleur name is Seneca, based on the Roman philosopher Seneca .

From 2014 to February 2018 Löger was the successor to Peter Haubner President of the Sportunion , and Michaela Steinacker succeeded him in this role in February 2018 . Löger is married, has two children and lives in Vienna. In 2015 he ran for the Vienna Chamber of Commerce elections on the "List 1: Unified List ÖWB / SWV" and won a committee mandate in the banking and insurance sector.

In 2019 he obtained a trade license as a consultant, and the Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) became his first major customer .

politics

Hartwig Löger (left) at the inauguration with Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen (2017)

Hartwig Löger was Federal Minister of Finance in the Federal Government Kurz I from December 18, 2017 to May 28, 2019 , nominated by the ÖVP .

In addition to Gernot Blümel , Günther Helm (formerly Hofer KG ) and Wolfgang Leitner , he has been a member of the nomination committee of the Austrian Federal and Industriebeteiligungen GmbH (ÖBIB) since January 2018 . The committee decides who is to be sent to the supervisory boards of companies with state interests. In October 2018, Löger presented his plans for a new state holding company, and ÖBIB was subsequently converted into ÖBAG, Österreichische Beteiligungs AG .

On March 21, 2018, Löger gave his first budget speech in parliament and presented a double budget for 2018/2019. In 2018, 488 million euros less than budgeted were spent due to low interest rates , the actual savings amounted to 66 million euros. For 2019, the Ministry of Finance budgeted a budget surplus of 541 million euros. This would mean that Austria would achieve a budget surplus in the federal government for the first time since 1954.

Löger was Vice Chancellor from May 22 to May 28, 2019, after the then incumbent Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache had previously resigned from all his offices due to the Ibiza affair . On May 28, 2019, following a successful motion of censure by the National Council against the entire Federal Government Brief I, he was entrusted with the continuation of the administration in the Federal Ministry of Finance and with the chairmanship of the provisional Federal Government and the continuation of the administration in the Federal Chancellery and remained in these functions until on the inauguration of the Federal Government Bierlein on June 3, 2019.

As part of the casino affair , when it comes to Postenschacher went Löger received an SMS of former FPÖ chairman Heinz-Christian Strache . He thanked the casinos ( CASAG ) for Löger's support . According to Falter, Löger answered the SMS with the sign "thumbs up".

Political positions

Country-by-country reporting

In February 2018, he spoke out against public country-by-country reporting, stating that this was “not absolutely necessary in order to be able to fight more effectively for tax justice ”. He was criticized for this by the globalization-critical non-governmental organization Attac . ÖVP-EU parliamentary delegation leader Othmar Karas also announced that he wanted to promote the introduction of public country-by-country reporting in his own party. He then made it clear that there must be full tax truth for corporations at international level, but the question was in what form the details should be published.

Wealth taxation

In autumn 2018, Löger spoke out in favor of introducing a tax on share profits in Austria and at the EU level. At the same time, this would end the efforts made by ten EU countries, including Austria, to introduce a financial transaction tax since 2014.

Awards

Works

Web links

Commons : Hartwig Löger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Bernd Wieser: Article 71 of the Federal Constitutional Law. In: Karl Korinek, Michael Holoubek: Austrian Federal Constitutional Law. Springer Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-211-99388-0 , paragraph 12.
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  5. ↑ Bernd Wieser: The temporary federal government. Verlag Österreich, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7046-0531-X , p. 44ff.
  6. ↑ Haznain Kazim: Austria's Interim Chancellor Löger: Shorter than Kurz, spiegel.de, May 28, 2019 (accessed June 18, 2020).
  7. ↑ Hartwig Löger in portrait: Suddenly Federal Chancellor, Kurier, May 27, 2018 (accessed June 18, 2020).
  8. ↑ Van der Bellen appoints provisional government, Wiener Zeitung, May 28, 2019 (accessed June 18, 2020).
  9. ↑ Hartwig Löger represented Austria at the meeting of the European Council, website of the Federal Chancellery, May 29, 2019 (accessed on June 18, 2020).
  10. ↑ Composition of governments since 1945. In: Website of the Federal Chancellery, undated, accessed on January 17, 2020: “Government Kurz I - December 18, 2017 to May 28, 2019 / Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP), to May 22, 2019 Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache (FPÖ), as of May 22, 2019 Vice Chancellor Hartwig Löger (entrusted with the interim chairmanship of the Federal Government on May 28), [...], on May 22, 2019 the removal from office of the government members nominated by the FPÖ (with the exception of the Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs). ”
    [Note: Contrary to previous versions of the BKA website, Löger no longer appears as Federal Chancellor and has not been included in the list of Federal Chancellors since 1945. ]
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  12. ↑ a b 2020-01-17 in the Munzinger archive , retrieved from the Internationales Biographisches Archiv 32/2019 on August 6, 2019 (fa) ( beginning of the article freely available)
  13. ↑ Hartwig Löger: UNIQA manager will be the new finance minister. In: Kleine Zeitung , December 16, 2017, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  14. ^ A b The ÖVP-FPÖ government team: four Styrians and two Carinthians in the future federal government. In: Kleine Zeitung , December 16, 2017, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  15. ↑ a b c Management Board Holding: Hartwig Löger ( Memento from December 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Website of the UNIQA Group.
  16. ↑ Change of head at Uniqa Austria: Svoboda succeeds Finance Minister Löger. In: Der Standard / APA , December 18, 2017, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  17. ↑ Ministers meanwhile ÖVP members. In: profil , March 29, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  18. ↑ Klaus Knittelfelder: From broker to minister. The prevented pilot Hartwig Löger ended up at the top of finance. In: Kurier , December 17, 2017, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  19. ↑ Peter McDonald is the new Sportunion President. In: LAOLA1.at, July 1, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  20. ↑ Main election commission of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce: Elections for the Chamber of Commerce 2015. Announcement of the specialist conferences. (PDF) In: Website of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, March 16, 2015, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  21. ↑ Andrea Hodoschek: Ex-Finance Minister Hartwig Löger starts as a consultant. In: Kurier.at . December 13, 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 .
  22. ↑ State holding: ÖVP finance minister confirms new heads in Öbib's nomination committee. Löger and Blümel will replace Drozda and Mahrer in the future. The Neos meanwhile criticize the "party politics" around the Öbib. In: Der Standard / APA , January 25, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  23. ↑ SOEs: From toothless Öbib is powerful ÖBAG. In: Die Presse , October 26, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  24. ↑ The state holding company ÖBIB became ÖBAG. There are no plans to privatize, says Finance Minister Hartwig Löger. In: Kurier , February 15, 2019, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  25. ↑ Karl Ettinger: Only 66 million saved: Low interest rates help with a budget surplus. More money for pensions and EU contribution. In: Wiener Zeitung , February 1, 2019, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  26. ↑ 541 million plus in the coming year. "New time calculation in budget policy". In: ORF.at . March 21, 2018, accessed September 3, 2018 .
  27. ↑ rie: In short, Strache prescribe zero deficit. In: Die Presse / APA . February 27, 2018, accessed September 3, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Heide Rampetzreiter: “In the center”: thumbs up “according to the motto give a rest”. In: The press . November 18, 2019, accessed on November 20, 2019 (beginning of article freely readable).
  29. ↑ Finance Minister Löger against new transparency rules for large corporations in the EU. In: profil , February 10, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  30. ↑ Attac criticizes finance minister. Finance Minister Hartwig Löger (ÖVP) wants corporate tax tricks to remain in the dark, claims the globalization-critical non-governmental organization. In: TT.com , February 16, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  31. ↑ Othmar Karas wants to promote country-by-country reporting. In: profil , February 17, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  32. ↑ Löger for tax transparency: "Step on the gas in the sense of clarification". In: Die Presse / APA , February 19, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  33. ↑ Löger is considering stock tax instead of financial transaction tax. In: Salzburger Nachrichten / APA . October 28, 2018, accessed November 3, 2018 .
  34. ↑ Special Public Affairs: Europe's leading investors & pension fund managers at the 4th Institutional Pension & Investor Summit in Vienna. In: Wirtschaftszeit, June 11, 2019, accessed on January 17, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Löger, Hartwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian manager and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Selzthal