Heinz Hufnagl

Heinz Hufnagl (born August 29, 1949 Vienna ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). From 1984 to 2015 he was a member of the Vienna State Parliament and City Council and from 2005 to 2010 the third President of the Vienna State Parliament .

education and profession

Heinz Hufnagl attended the primary school in Fockygasse ( Meidling ) and the Bundesrealgymnasium Reinprechtsdorfer Straße ( Margareten ), where he graduated in 1967. He then joined Österreichische Länderbank AG and is still working for the legal successor Bank Austria . Hufnagl has been the chief expert in the field of special management for small and medium-sized businesses since 1991.

politics

Hufnagl has been working in the SPÖ Vienna since 1966. Hufnagl was elected deputy section chairman in 1969 and section chairman in Meidling in 1980. From 1978 to 1984 he was district councilor in Vienna-Meidling and in 1984 moved to the Vienna state parliament and local council. There he was elected chairman of the environmental committee in 1997 and the third president of the Vienna state parliament in 2005. Since 1990 Hufnagl has also been deputy district chairman in Meidling.

In 2007, Hufnagl surprised people at a Koran competition in the Austria Center with the assessment that criticism of Islam was a "devilish thought". The governor of Lower Austria, Erwin Pröll , criticized the criticism of minarets as "an expression of pathetic intolerance and ignorance".

Web links

• Heinz Hufnagl on the pages of the SPÖ
• Heinz Hufnagl on the website of the City of Vienna
• http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2011/02/25009.html
• https://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2015/09/09016.html

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stefan Beig: SPÖ polemics at Koran-Wettsingen in the Austria Center. In: Wiener Zeitung. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .