Helmut Peter

Helmut Peter (born April 21, 1948 in Sankt Wolfgang ) is an Austrian hotelier and former politician ( LIF , formerly FPÖ ). From 1990 to 1999 Peter was a member of the Austrian National Council and from 1993 to 2013 he was also President of the Austrian Hotel Association .

education and profession

Helmut Peter attended elementary school in St. Wolfgang from 1954 to 1958 and then until 1964 the state school home in Marquartstein in Upper Bavaria. Between 1964 and 1966 he graduated from the private high school in Bad Ischl and passed the Matura there. Peter then studied business administration at the University for World Trade in Vienna and graduated in 1973 with the academic degree Mag. Rer. soc. oec. from. Peter did his military service as a one-year volunteer and was at the Klosterneuburg Pioneer Troop School, where he last held the rank of lieutenant in the reserve.

Helmut Peter worked in the family business from 1973 to 2012 and was the managing partner of the Peter Hotel Weisses Rössl GesmbH family, which runs the Romantik Hotel Im Weisses Rössl . Since 2013 he has been a member of the advisory board and managing director of the Peter family's holding companies.

Today Helmut Peter Altwirt is in the Weisses Rössl on Lake Wolfgang .

politics

Helmut Peter was regional party chairman of the FPÖ Upper Austria from 1990 to 1993, but switched to the new party in the course of the break-off of the Liberal Forum (LIF). From 1995 he was regional spokesman for the Liberal Forum Upper Austria and from 1993 a member of the Federal Party Presidium of the Liberal Forum Vienna.

Helmut Peter was also involved in professional representation and was a member of the Upper Austria Tourism Council from 1989 to 1995, and from 1987 a member of the Presidium of the Austrian Hotel Association, of which he became Vice-President from 1990 and President from 1993. He also held various functions in the Upper Austria Chamber of Commerce and the Austrian Chamber of Commerce .

Helmut Peter represented the FPÖ in the National Council from November 5, 1990 to February 12, 1993 and then sat for the LIF in Parliament from November 7, 1994 to October 28, 1999.

Awards

• Gold Medal of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria (1995)
• Grand Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (2003)
• Business medal in silver (2008)
• Gold Medal of Honor of the Province of Upper Austria (2010)
• Commercial Council (2018)

Web links

• Helmut Peter on the website of the Austrian Parliament