Herbert Kickl

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Herbert Kickl (2020)

Herbert Kickl (born October 19, 1968 in Villach ) is an Austrian politician of the FPÖ and has been its federal party leader since June 19, 2021 . From December 18, 2017 to May 22, 2019 he was Federal Minister of the Interior . From 2006 to 2017 he was a member of the Austrian National Council . After his dismissal as Federal Minister, he was sworn in as a member of the National Council and from May 27, 2019 he was the executive club chairman of the FPÖ parliamentary group.

Life

Childhood, adolescence and studies

Herbert Kickl, who grew up in a working-class family, attended the Radenthein elementary school . After graduating from high school in Spittal an der Drau , which he attended together with the former federal spokeswoman for the Greens Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek , he did his military service with the mountain hunters as a one-year volunteer from 1987 to 1988 . In 1988 he began to study journalism and political science at the University of Vienna, and from 1989 philosophy and history. However, he did not complete both studies.

Party politician of the FPÖ

Between 1995 and 2001 Kickl worked in the FPÖ party academy in the field of campaign content and campaign organization until he rose to deputy managing director in 2001 and finally after the Knittelfelder assembly became managing director of the Freedom Academy and held this position until 2006. As a speechwriter for Jörg Haider he wrote, among other things, the Ash Wednesday sayings about French President Jacques Chirac (“a pocket Napoleon”) or the President of the Israelite religious community Ariel Muzicant (“How can someone called Ariel have so much mess on his stick ? ") And was responsible for criticized election campaign slogans of the FPÖ (e.g. 2010 :" Viennese blood - too much foreign things are not good for anyone. "). After the BZÖ split off from the FPÖ, Haider and Kickl parted ways, and he was one of his harshest critics until Haider's death.

Kickl has been managing director of the party newspaper Neue Freie Zeitung since 2005 and was general secretary of the FPÖ from April 2005 to January 2018. In this position he was responsible for public relations and internal communication. In January 2018, Marlene Svazek succeeded him as General Secretary of the FPÖ. From the National Council election in 2006 until he was sworn in as Minister of the Interior, Kickl was a member of the National Council, deputy chairman of the Freedom Parliamentary Club and a member of the Advisory Council on Media Promotion. On July 4, 2016, he succeeded Hilmar Kabas as President of the FPÖ Educational Institute .

Federal Minister of the Interior

On December 18, 2017, Kickl was sworn in by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen as Federal Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Austria. In the opinion of his critics, it seemed difficult for him to make the leap from the opposition to one of the classic departments . Kickl's head of cabinet was Reinhard Teufel .

Kickl's formulation caused a stir at a press conference on January 11, 2018. He spoke of keeping asylum seekers “concentrated in one place”. When asked by journalists, he denied that this was intended as a provocation, but Kickl's choice of words was received in the media at home and abroad and understood as an allusion to Nazi terminology and was then criticized.

In September 2018, an email from the department spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior to the communications officers of the state police departments was published, warning against certain media and recommending that cooperation with them be kept to a minimum. It was also recommended that more information be provided about sexual offenses. A motion of censure against Kickl that the opposition had subsequently accused of restricting the freedom of the press was rejected by the ÖVP and the FPÖ. However, Federal Chancellor Kurz and Federal President Van der Bellen stated that such a restriction was unacceptable. For its part, the FPÖ complained of a "staged media hate speech" against Kickl. Kickl stated that the formulations regarding the handling of critical media would not find his approval.

In January 2019, Kickl spoke in the ORF program Report about a possibility he called for a faster deportation of refugees who had committed criminal offenses. They should be able to be deported after the conviction in the first instance, i.e. before a constitutional process is concluded. A few days later he corrected that he wanted the proceedings to be settled in the second instance. He went on to say that he was of the opinion that “the principle applies that the law has to follow politics and not politics according to the law”, and mentioned “some strange legal constructions, some of them many, many years old, from completely different situations emerged and they prevent us from doing what is necessary ”. He spoke of "things from the 50s". For this understanding of the rule of law, Kickl was strongly criticized by, among others, Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen , who condemned "shaking" the European Convention on Human Rights , which has constitutional status in Austria , opposition politicians, judges and lawyers' associations and the President of the Jewish Community of Vienna, Oskar Deutsch . Comparisons were also made with the legal opinion of Carl Schmitt , a German constitutional lawyer who was controversial because of his temporary commitment to National Socialism .

At the beginning of 2019, Kickl planned a constitutional amendment (for which a two-thirds majority is required in parliament), according to which preventive detention could be imposed for asylum seekers who would be classified as a threat to public order. The parties Liste Jetzt and NEOS declined to hold talks on the grounds that imprisonment on the basis of a hazard prognosis would touch the basic pillars of the rule of law. The Standard also asked how detention for asylum seekers only could not be discriminatory . Kickl also planned a night's rest for asylum seekers on a voluntary basis between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and said: "If you don't want that, we'll find a place where there is little incentive to hang around." The aim of this renewed tightening of the asylum law is, that in the future practically no asylum applications could be made in Austria, since the country, as Kickl said, is surrounded by safe third countries. The renaming of initial reception centers for refugees by Kickl into “departure centers” from March 1, 2019, considered the social psychologist Klaus Ottomeyer to be “pure sadism ” and commented that Kickl and others are “always about humiliation”.

Changes in the police force

As Minister of the Interior, Kickl advocated the expansion and armament of the Austrian police . In the government program of the turquoise-blue government, for example, it was announced that it would take on 4,100 new civil servants. In the summer of 2018, Kickl announced plans to install police standby units in all other Austrian federal states in addition to Vienna . Since April 2018, in addition to WEGA and the task force to combat street crime , the Vienna Taser standby unit has also been allowed to use. The new Puma police unit was also set up in 2018 to serve border protection. The lighthouse project to set up a horse-drawn police force again failed. According to Kurier, the expenses for the project phase amounted to around 2.5 million euros.

BAT affair

As part of the investigation committee into the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism (BVT), the opposition in the National Council criticized the search of the BVT intelligence service by police officers from the Task Force to Combat Street Crime (EGS), which was requested by the public prosecutor and approved by a judge. The Minister of the Interior was accused of exerting political influence on the search and a serious loss of confidence in foreign intelligence services through the confiscation of highly sensitive data by the EGS. Kickl immediately rejected the allegations, arguing that “it is not the Ministry of the Interior but the public prosecutor who decides against whom, who will be questioned and what will be confiscated.” In July 2018, editors-in-chief of four Austrian newspapers commented on Kickl's comments on the BVT investigation their concern for freedom of expression in Austria. The Interior Ministry rejected these allegations as "untenable". The Higher Regional Court of Vienna ruled on August 28, 2018 that the house searches at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Combating Terrorism (BVT) had taken place unlawfully. When asked by journalists, Kickl described this decision as "cautiously worded, something strange".

Dismissed as a minister

In May 2019, a video from the summer of 2017 was made public in which FPÖ party chairman Heinz-Christian Strache had spoken, among other things, that large party donations would bypass the Court of Auditors through private associations. According to Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz , FPÖ General Secretary Kickl was primarily responsible for the party's “financial management”. Therefore, and because awareness he had not sufficiently after short 'view shown for the seriousness of the situation, he suggested President Alexander Van der Bellen the dismissal Kickls as interior minister before that occurred on May 22 of 2019. Kickl was the first Federal Minister to lose his office in the Second Republic .

Executive chairman of the club

Since May 24, 2019, he has been a member of the National Council again, where he took over the mandate from Alois Kainz and became executive club chairman of the FPÖ. In the 2019 National Council election , he received the most preferential votes among the FPÖ candidates and managed to pass the hurdle for a ranking on the federal list (preferential votes equal to seven percent of the voters of his party) with 75,699 preferential votes. He also overtook the record result of ex-party leader Heinz-Christian Strache, who received 41,479 preferential votes in the 2017 NR election.

Speech at a rally against corona measures

At the beginning of March 2021, Kickl gave a speech at a demonstration against the Corona measures, in which he spoke of "Corona steel helmets in government offices" and "dirty guys" in the ministries. The EU health policy is a " harmonized power game" because "they up there want to rule us". Alluding to Chancellor Kurz's visit to Israel , Kickl said that there was “health apartheid ” in Israel ; the country is currently one of the "bondage". Representatives of the right-wing scene and the Identitarian Movement also took part in the rally. The General Secretary of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Vienna Benjamin Nägele then said that the FPÖ and Kickl, who “deliberately use anti-Semitic codes” and “who deliberately ignites and plays with the fears of the population, are part of the coalition, are responsible for the escalation” forced the right-wing extremists and tried to put themselves at the forefront of this movement ”.

Controversy over wearing an FFP2 mask in parliament

At the beginning of April 2021, Kickl declared that he still did not want to wear a mask in parliament. The mask requirement in parliament is only anchored in the house rules, but not in the rules of procedure, so there are no sanctions for violations. Kickl said he was "not one of those hypocrites who put on the mask and then throw every security measure overboard". He wears them when he goes shopping because he has to, but he doesn't have to in parliament. Party leader Norbert Hofer then wrote that the free mandate made it possible to evade the house rules. Anyone who does this "puts themselves in a self-exaggeration above all people who have to abide by the rules". Shortly afterwards, however, Hofer's office put this point of view into perspective and stated that, as an alternative to the FFP2 mask, Plexiglas walls should not only be attached to the side between, but also in front of the MPs. Away from the seat, Hofer wants to make wearing the mask the responsibility of the MPs, provided that the two-meter distance can be maintained.

Federal party leader of the FPÖ

There were repeated differences between Herbert Kickl and Norbert Hofer , who had taken over the leadership of the party after the Ibiza affair and the resignation of Heinz-Christian Strache. With his moderate demeanor, Norbert Hofer wanted to make the party attractive to swing voters, Herbert Kickl stood in direct contrast to Hofer with his demeanor at the demonstration of opponents of the government's Corona measures and with his refusal to wear an FFP2 mask in parliament .

After Hofer's resignation on June 1, 2021, Member of the National Council Harald Stefan took over his duties on an interim basis. Herbert Kickl applied as the only candidate for Hofer's successor as federal party leader of the FPÖ and was unanimously designated as federal party leader on June 7, 2021 by the federal party presidium. Kickl stated that he wanted to wait for the approval of the delegates at the special party conference in order to get to work accordingly. His election as federal party chairman finally took place on June 19, 2021 with a result of 88.24 percent.

Political positioning

Generally

In October 2016 Kickl appeared as a guest speaker at the right-wing extremist congress " Defenders of Europe ". In the course of forming a government with the ÖVP in 2017 , he stated that he was doing politics to “make society fairer”. In his opinion, it is possible in a fair society to feed one's family through employment and to live independently without being “socially dependent”. Contrary to the line of many of his party colleagues - despite strong criticism of the ORF - Kickl does not advocate a fundamental “reform” of public broadcasting including the abolition of GIS fees.

Foreign policy

The close political relations between the FPÖ and Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party are also supported by Kickl; As Minister of the Interior, Kickl tried to work together in the field of disaster control and the fight against organized crime and terrorism in 2018. Kickl rejected criticism of the Russian President's authoritarian policies in a radio interview. He rejects interference in domestic affairs. A differentiated approach is right to find a common path between Russia and Europe.

Private

Kickl lives in Purkersdorf . He is married and has one son.

Publications

literature

Web links

Commons : Herbert Kickl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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    Kickl: No order to clean up in BVT , Die Presse from June 27, 2018
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personal data
SURNAME Kickl, Herbert
SHORT DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH 19th October 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach