Jörg Haider

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Jörg Haider before a television duel for the 2008 National Council election

Jörg Haider (born January 26, 1950 in Goisern ; † October 11, 2008 in Köttmannsdorf ) was an Austrian politician from the so-called Third Camp . Between 1971 and 1975 Haider was federal chairman of the Ring of Freedom Youth and from 1986 to 2000 chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). In April 2005, under his leadership, numerous functionaries split off from the FPÖ and founded the Alliance Future Austria (BZÖ) party. He was Governor of Carinthia from 1989 to 1991 and from 1999 until his death .

Origin and education

parents house

Haider's parents, who married in 1945, came from different backgrounds. His father Robert Haider (born March 26, 1914; † March 18, 2004) was a shoemaker, his mother Dorothea Haider (born October 10, 1918; † June 14, 2016), née Rupp, the daughter of a gynecologist and primary care physician at the Linzer Allgemeine Hospital . Both were staunch National Socialists . Robert Haider was already an “illegal” person in the 1930s, that is, a member of the NSDAP , which was banned in Austria at the time . He fled across the border into the German Reich , joined the paramilitary Austrian Legion of the SA and was actively involved in the Nazi July coup of 1934. After the “ Anschluss ” in 1938, he was initially a district youth elector for the German Labor Front in Linz. During the Second World War he was wounded several times on the western and eastern fronts and returned home as a lieutenant . The mother was a leader in the Association of German Girls . After the liberation in 1945, Robert Haider had to dig mass graves for those previously murdered by the SS in the Ebensee concentration camp . As a former National Socialist functionary, he was brought to the Glasenbach internment camp by the Allies and, as an "illegal alien", was particularly affected by the denazification laws of the first post-war years. In the course of the 1947 Prohibition Act , he and his wife were classified as “less exposed”. Haider senior found work in a shoe factory and later became a liberal party secretary for the Gmunden district . Politically, the parents were still connected to the nationalist camp, which was reflected, among other things, in the fact that they chose the last chairman of the Greater German People's Party of Austria and Reichstag member of the NSDAP, Hermann Foppa, as godfather for their son Jörg.

Youth and education

Jörg Haider was baptized Catholic , attended elementary school in Bad Goisern from 1956 to 1960 and then until 1968 the grammar school in Bad Ischl , where he was also active in the popular school association Albia Bad Ischl. After graduating from high school , he did his military service as a one-year volunteer from 1968 to 1969 . His dismissal grade was the usual sergeant .

Then enrolled Haider the fields of study law and political science at the University of Vienna , where he 1973 "Doctor of Laws" doctorate was. His supervisor was Günther Winkler . Since 1969 he was active in the facultative fraternity Silvania Vienna, in which he remained as a senior member after graduation . He then worked with Peter Kostelka ( SPÖ ) until 1976 as a university assistant at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna under Günther Winkler.

Political career

During his career, Haider held various positions within the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), including as party leader for 14 years. Under his leadership, the FPÖ experienced a steady increase in electoral favor, which so far reached its zenith in the 1999 National Council elections . The FPÖ also became the party with the most votes in Carinthia . However, Haider is also seen as primarily responsible for the biggest defeat in the history of Austrian political parties (loss of almost two thirds of the votes in the 2002 National Council election ). His policies caused much controversy over time and resulted in the resignation of a large number of party members.

Beginnings (1966–1985)

Haider first received public attention in 1966 when he took part in a speech competition organized by the Austrian Gymnastics Federation, which is classified as German national , in Innsbruck: he won it with his contribution Are we Austrians Germans? Haider's political career in the FPÖ began as chairman (functional title: Federal Youth Leader ) of the Ring of Freedom Youth from 1971 to 1975.

In 1976 Jörg Haider became party secretary in Carinthia, and in 1979 he became the youngest member of the FPÖ in the Austrian National Council . When the SPÖ formed a coalition with the FPÖ in 1983 after losing an absolute majority, he had ambitions for the office of Minister of Social Affairs, but eventually became chairman of the emphatically German national Carinthian FPÖ. In this role he often criticized the more liberal wing of the FPÖ around Vice Chancellor and federal party leader Norbert Steger in the following years . The FPÖ Carinthia was the only FPÖ regional organization to record an increase in votes in state elections ( 1984 ).

Political advancement (1986-1999)

With the help of the German national wing, he succeeded on September 13, 1986 at a party congress in Innsbruck, to replace Steger as chairman of the FPÖ. Following this change of leadership, Chancellor Franz Vranitzky terminated the coalition with the Freedom Party. In the National Council elections that followed, the FPÖ was able to double its result, primarily thanks to Haider. The main topics of his election speeches were the dismantling of privileges and criticism of the prevailing political conditions. In the domestic report he described the Austrian nation as an "ideological freak" . Haider pushed almost everyone who had supported him in his rise in the FPÖ out of their positions. Mario Ferrari-Brunnenfeld , who had significantly promoted Haider's appointment as state party director in 1976, was banned from working in the FPÖ in 1988 and then ridiculed. Kriemhild Trattnig , who was considered Haider's political foster mother, was the target of a bullying campaign before the 1992 party congress in Gastein, which culminated in a ridiculous parody by Gernot Rumpold , who was dressed as Trattnig in a dirndl dress . Trattnig resigned from the FPÖ during the party congress.

In 1989, after a gain of more than 13 percent in the state elections, he was elected Governor of Carinthia with the support of the ÖVP MPs. After a motion of no confidence by the ÖVP and the SPÖ, he lost this office again in 1991. The reason for the motion of censure was a statement by Haider in a debate on unemployment in the Carinthian state parliament on June 13, 1991: “ Well, that didn't happen in the Third Reich, because in the Third Reich you had a proper employment policy, which not even your government in Vienna did brings together. You have to say that once. “He later apologized for this statement.

After being voted out of office in Carinthia, Haider was again chairman of the FPÖ in parliament . The party was able to record significant gains in a series of state elections, in some cases even in the double-digit percentage range.

Until about 1993 Jörg Haider and the FPÖ supported Austria's accession to the then European Community , but later spoke out against accession. Until the end, Haider was considered a declared EU skeptic. Unlike the FPÖ, however, he himself spoke out in favor of Turkey joining the European Union.

On March 15, 1999, the FPÖ won the election to the Carinthian state parliament with Haider as the top candidate with a 42.09% share of the vote . For the first time, the FPÖ became the party with the most votes in a federal state. On April 8, 1999, Haider was elected governor for the second time only with the votes of the FPÖ MPs.

In the National Council elections in the same year, the FPÖ was under his leadership behind the SPÖ, the second strongest party in terms of votes - just ahead of the ÖVP, if there was a tie in mandates. ÖVP and FPÖ formed a government coalition with ÖVP chairman Wolfgang Schüssel as Chancellor ( Federal Government Schüssel I ). This triggered international protests, as the FPÖ, along with Haider, was sometimes viewed abroad as a right-wing extremist party. The governments of the other EU states temporarily suspended diplomatic and political contacts with Austria (“sanctions”). On the streets of Vienna there were regular demonstrations by opponents of the government coalition, the Thursday demonstrations . There were also demonstrations abroad against the participation of the FPÖ in government under Jörg Haider.

Withdrawal into state politics (2000-2008)

Jörg Haider (2006)
Jörg Haider (2007)

In 2000, Haider was significantly involved in the formation of a coalition government between the ÖVP and the FPÖ in Austria, which, due to various xenophobic and anti-Semitic statements by Haider, led to considerable protests and diplomatic sanctions by the then 14 other member states of the European Union (but not the EU itself), as well as the countries of the Czech Republic, Norway, Canada and Israel. In February 2000, Haider surprisingly resigned from his post as FPÖ chairman, but denied having bowed to international protests. Even without an official federal political office, as a "simple party member" (according to his own definition), he still had considerable influence on the federal party and the members of the FPÖ government.

Jörg Haider maintained close contacts with Arab politicians: Haider had a long personal friendship with Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi , the son of the Libyan head of state at the time, Muammar al-Gaddafi . On Shrove Tuesday in 2002, Jörg Haider traveled to Baghdad to meet Saddam Hussein . Later that year, Jörg Haider heavily criticized his party for postponing a tax reform, triggering an internal FPÖ power struggle. This culminated at the extraordinary Knittelfelder FPÖ delegate assembly when a compromise paper was publicly torn. As a result of the events, party chairwoman and vice chancellor Susanne Riess-Passer , finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser and FPÖ club chairman Peter Westenthaler resigned.

Haider wanted to take over the chairmanship of the party again, but withdrew within a few days because there were alleged assassination threats against him and his family. New elections were scheduled, but Haider was not available as the top candidate. Instead, Herbert Haupt became chairman. While Haupt campaigned for the coalition to continue with the ÖVP, Haider was against it. Due to the great loss of votes and mandates in the National Council election in 2002, for which he was assigned the main responsibility, he announced his resignation as Carinthian governor. However, he did not put it into practice. “Withdrawal from resignation” was chosen by the Research Center for Austrian German as the bad word of the year .

In his role as governor, he was a member of the Austria Convention . In the Carinthian state elections on March 7, 2004, Haider's FPÖ managed to regain a relative majority. According to the official final result, the FPÖ came to 42.5 percent, the SPÖ to 38.4, the ÖVP to 11.6 and the Greens to 6.7 percent. In the constituent state parliament session on March 31, 2004, Haider was re-elected governor - for the first time with the support of both the SPÖ (through presence) and the ÖVP (through active yes votes) - and concluded a labor agreement with the SPÖ.

When the FPÖ again suffered a significant defeat in the elections to the European Parliament , Haider was asked by numerous party members to take over the chairmanship again, which, to everyone's surprise, he refused. Instead, his sister Ursula Haubner took the lead in the party.

Foundation of the party "Alliance Future Austria" (2005)

Jörg Haider at a BZÖ event (2006)

After the election defeat in the Lower Austrian local council elections on March 6, 2005 (decrease to 3.3%), Haider proposed a re-establishment of the FPÖ as a “casual, brisk and young” party, whose leadership he would be prepared to take over again “in an emergency” . When this proposal did not meet with unanimous approval within the party and a vote against the Viennese FPÖ chairman Heinz-Christian Strache emerged at a party congress scheduled for April 23 , 2005 he founded the new party Alliance Future Austria ( BZÖ) and declared that he wanted to become its first chairman. Thereupon he was expelled from the FPÖ on April 7, 2005 by the interim chairman of the FPÖ Hilmar Kabas . As a consequence of the new founding of the party, the FPÖ lost its government team and a large part of the MPs. The BZÖ took over parts of the FPÖ party program in its own, in which, for example, the "robber capitalism of globalization" was attacked, the "flat tax" was praised and the promotion of both "small and medium-sized businesses" and the "common man" was advocated.

When the BZÖ first took part in the state elections in Styria in 2005 , the party received 1.7% of the votes (FPÖ: 4.6%) and thus failed to make it into the state parliament. The BZÖ did not run for the state elections in Burgenland on October 9, 2005, which followed shortly thereafter . In the state elections in Vienna on October 23, 2005, 1.2% of the votes went to the BZÖ, which therefore was not elected to the state parliament (here: municipal council ) in the federal capital either .

After the second regional defeat, Haider handed over the business of the federal party chairman to Hubert Gorbach , but kept de facto leadership at the federal level and at the same time became chairman of the Carinthian BZÖ on November 25th. The positioning of the BZÖ in the Austrian political landscape was still decisively shaped by Haider. After an internal coalition dispute over social policy, the coalition between the BZÖ and SPÖ in the Carinthian state government broke up on February 28, 2006.

On June 23, 2006 he was replaced by his long-time companion Peter Westenthaler at a federal convention in Salzburg as chairman of the BZÖ. Westenthaler also took over the party agendas from Hubert Gorbach. In the National Council election in October 2006 , the BZÖ made it into the National Council. The decisive factor was the result in Carinthia alone (almost 25%). In all other federal states, the BZÖ remained below the 4 percent limit required for entry into the National Council.

Return to Federal Politics (2008)

In mid-August 2008, Haider announced that he would run as the top candidate of the BZÖ for the 2008 National Council election, but would not accept any mandate, but would remain Carinthian governor. Haider was unanimously elected party chairman at a party conference of the BZÖ in Graz at the end of August, with the consent of all delegates without opposing candidates. The BZÖ was able to more than double its share of the vote in the election on September 28, 2008 with 10.7%, which observers as well as party friends Haider mainly attribute to his candidacy. The party achieved its best result in Carinthia with 39.4%, while in the other federal states it achieved between 4.7% (Vienna) and 13.2% (Styria).

Private life

Jörg Haider married Claudia Hoffman, who was born in Tyrol in 1976, and their daughters Ulrike Haider-Quercia and Cornelia Haider were born in 1976 and 1980. Jörg Haider lived in Bärental and in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee . The controversial Bärental property, which was originally owned by an Italian-Jewish family and was “ Aryanized ” after the “Anschluss” of Austria , was inherited by Haider from his South Tyrolean uncle Wilhelm Webhofer from Bruneck .

Haider was a mountaineer and runner; Among other things, he took part in the New York City Marathon in 1999 and the Vienna City Marathon in 2000 .

Haider was active as a singer of Carinthian songs . In November 2008 a CD and DVD was released with Jörg Haider as a soloist, accompanied by the Klagenfurt men's double sextet . Part of the proceeds from the CD “Pfiat Gott, liabe Alm” will go to the aid project “Carinthians in Need”. After his death in October 2008, Jörg Haider's solo voice was marketed on CD and DVD in teleshopping programs and achieved high sales figures. In 1990 Haider had a short guest appearance in the episode “Der Unlucky” of the RTL series “ Ein Schloß am Wörthersee ”.

From October 10, 2009 to October 2, 2010 there was a special exhibition “Dr. Jörg Haider. 1950–2008 ”in the mining museum in Klagenfurt , which enabled some insights into Haider's private life in the form of images in photos or Jörg Haider's work environment with armchair and desk from the governor's office, his watch and passport were also on display and a copy of his first political speech "Are we Austrians Germans?", which he wrote when he was 16.

death

On the night of October 11, 2008 Haider was killed in a traffic accident in Lambichl in the southwest of the state capital Klagenfurt (Lage) on the Loiblpass road . After attending several events and restaurants, Haider, heavily drunk (1.8 ‰ blood alcohol concentration ), made his way to his house in Bärental on his own. According to the head of the Klagenfurt public prosecutor's office, Haider drove at extremely high speed in his company car, VW Phaeton, in fog . In a 70 km / h zone near the small town of Lambichl, just after Klagenfurt, he came off the road after overtaking at 1:15 a.m. His car crashed into the edge of a garden. According to the information from the control unit read out by VW technicians, in which the last 30 seconds of the journey were stored, the last measured speed was 142 km / h.

Haider suffered several life-threatening injuries in the accident and died on the way to the Klagenfurt Clinic . On April 14, 2009, the Klagenfurt public prosecutor announced that the investigation into the fatal traffic accident had officially been closed. The fatal accident was therefore exclusively due to a driving error. According to the technical evaluation of the vehicle involved in the accident, the vehicle involved in the accident was in "perfect [m] condition" and there was also no manipulation or other external influence. An autopsy by the Graz forensic medicine department ruled out other medical causes for the accident (e.g. a heart attack or another illness), which was later confirmed by a second report from the University of Innsbruck.

The scene of the accident in Lambichl on the Klagenfurt city limits and those places in Carinthia that had shaped Haider's life became places of mourning and pilgrimage after his death. The official funeral services for Haider took place on October 18, 2008 in Klagenfurt; It was divided into two parts: the farewell ceremony on Neuer Platz and the requiem in Klagenfurt Cathedral , which was celebrated by Bishops Alois Schwarz and Egon Kapellari . More than 25,000 people took part in the celebrations, among them the highest representatives of the republic such as Federal President Heinz Fischer , Federal Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and all governors, Karl-Heinz Grasser , Stefan Petzner , numerous veterans of the Second World War, Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi (one of the sons of the Libyan revolutionary leader Muammar al-Gaddafi ), who was friends with Haider, as well as many of his earlier companions and representatives of several German national fraternities. Several delegations and right-wing sympathizers came from Italy; The President of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region , Renzo Tondo, with the flag and coat of arms of his region, and the President of the Veneto Region, Gianfranco Galan , appeared among politicians . Numerous right-wing populist parties as well as the separatist Lega Nord expressed their condolences on behalf of the EU MP Mario Borghezio , who stated that many supporters of the Lega Nord attended the funeral. After the funeral services in Klagenfurt ended, Haider's body was cremated in the Villach crematorium . The urn was buried a few days later on the property of the Haider family in Bärental.

Remembrance of the dead and Haider cult

Since Haider's death, people have been making pilgrimages to the accident site in Lambichl and laying flowers, wreaths, candles, flags and expressions of mourning. The traditional Carinthian associations also hold a commemorative rally with a wreath-laying ceremony at the national celebrations. The Jörg Haider Memorial Park includes several memorial monuments surrounded by flower beds, wreaths, flags and various mourning messages. The artwork connecting hands was commissioned as a memorial for Jörg Haider. It was initially located in Klagenfurt and was inaugurated in front of the Gurk Cathedral on January 25, 2011 . In 2013, the state of Carinthia stopped maintaining and cleaning the memorial by the road maintenance authority.

At a party organized by the BZÖ was a banner pseudo intercession "Joerg Haider, please help us, these traitors to scare." Used. The "Dr. Jörg Haider Prayer League “ campaigned for the beatification of Haider for several years until it turned out to be satire. The cultic veneration of Haider was criticized by Josef Winkler , Egyd Gstättner and Udo Jürgens , among others . The psychologist Klaus Ottomeyer explains Haider's admiration for Carinthia's “distinctly fatherless society, which creates desires for the superfather who emerges from the insignificance. The feeling of being abandoned is also celebrated here. It is no coincidence that one of the most popular national songs is called Valossn, valossn '. "

A number of conspiracy theories developed around Haider 's death, suspecting booby traps, rocket attacks or a staging of the accident on behalf of "the East Coast ", Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bahn and the trade union behind Haider's death. A conspiracy theoretical book on Haider's death was published by Gerhard Wisnewski in the Kopp-Verlag . Karlheinz Klement expressed his view that Haider had been murdered by the Mossad . Ottomeyer describes the conspiracy theories about Haider's death as "reducing a cognitive dissonance [...] the conspiracy theory bends facts so that the belief - in which I have invested a lot - can be preserved and my self-esteem does not get into a crisis" .

The band KIZ released a diss track called Straight outta Kärnten in 2009 , which deals with the death of Jörg Haider. On the tenth anniversary of Haider's death, the BZÖ Carinthia proposed renaming the Neuer Platz in Klagenfurt to “Jörg-Haider-Platz” in September 2018 - with reference to Haider's “straightforward deeds” and his “good-hearted work”, his “commitment to the population "Has an" unstoppable effect ".

  • Jörg Haider Memorial 2018

  • Accident site in Lambichl on October 14, 2008

  • Memorial at the accident site in Lambichl

  • The Marterl

  • Messages from supporters and critics

Scandals and controversy

Jörg Haider polarized opinions, he was both admired and hostile. One of the reasons for criticism was his xenophobic election campaigns; in the 1999 election campaign, for example, “stop foreign infiltration” was propagated. In 2006, Haider reiterated his position on the "foreigner question" and said that he supported the deportation of "unwilling to integrate" and "uneducated" immigrants.

Haider also advocated a referendum on an EU constitution , which appeared to some to be very democratic and to others to be populist. He campaigned for an “inner-European right of ethnic groups to self-determination”.

Relation to right-wing extremism

Haider's critics call him, among other things, a right-wing populist with a partially right-wing extremist worldview. Some of his statements were classified as xenophobic, racist and anti-Semitic . He repeatedly used the term “ (American) East Coast ”, which is common in political anti-Semitism , in which the rejection of the “artificial” and “multicultural culture” of the United States is combined with the idea that Jews would have a dominant influence on politics from there and exercise society of America and also Europe.

“The Häupl [incumbent mayor of Vienna, SPÖ] has an election strategist, his name is Greenberg ... (loud laughter in the hall) ... he had him flown in from the east coast! Dear friends, you have the choice between Spin Doctor Greenberg from the east coast or the Wienerherz ... (thunderous applause) ... we don't need any calls from the east coast. Now is enough! (strong applause) "

- Jörg Haider : at an election event on February 23, 2001 in the Kurhalle Oberlaa , published in the profile on March 12, 2001

Haider, however, denied a connection. According to him, the east coast is a value-free geographical name.

“That in these busy times there are still decent people who have a character and who stand by their convictions even with the greatest headwind and have remained true to their convictions to this day. And that is a basis, my dear friends, that is also passed on to us young people. And a people who do not honor their ancestors are doomed anyway. But after we want to have a future, we will teach those people, the politically correct ones, that we cannot be killed and that decency is always worthwhile in our world, even if we are currently not able to win a majority, but we are mentally superior to the others . [...] We give money for terrorists, for violent newspapers, for work-shy rabble, and we have no money for decent people. "

- Jörg Haider : 1995, address to veterans of the Waffen SS on the occasion of the Ulrichsberg celebrations in Krumpendorf

Jörg Haider came under fire because of such statements and his appearance at the Ulrichsberg celebrations, where he defended the "decent" and "clean" war generation in his opinion:

"... it cannot be the case that the story of our parents and grandparents is turned into a criminal album due to strange comments and that their achievements are trampled underfoot."

- Jörg Haider : Speech at Ulrichsberg in 2000

This political support of the war generation lasted until a few months before his death in 2008, when Haider had spoken out against the deportation of Milivoj Ašner , the former Croatian Ustasha police chief of Požega , who was wanted as a war criminal , to Croatia . "He should be allowed to spend his old age with us". Asner is "a citizen of Klagenfurt who has lived peacefully with us for years". “It's a nice family,” Haider told the standard .

National Council member Peter Pilz ( Greens ) called Haider in 1992 as a "political mentor of the extreme right-wing terrorism" and "Verharmloser the Nazi past," said Haider while unsuccessfully to sue to defend continued: The Supreme Court in 1995 assessed the statements as part of the political controversy as legitimate expressions of opinion.

According to the Stasi files , Jörg Haider was considered a right-wing extremist. He is also said to have taken part in meetings of the far-right Freedom German Workers' Party (FAP) during a visit to West Berlin in 1989 .

Controversial statements

In his years at the top of the FPÖ, Haider used often and deliberately insulting words towards other politicians and used a provocative language. In doing so, he often made derogatory comments about internationally respected personalities. For example, he claimed in 1991 that the Polish people are “work shy”, as can be seen from the Polish President Lech Wałęsa , who has become “more broad than high”. In 2000, he described the French President Jacques Chirac as a “pocket Napoleon”, and on February 28, 2001, in an allusion to the detergent “Ariel” , he said he was surprised about the President of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (IKG), Ariel Muzicant how someone named Ariel could "have so much mess on the stick". Haider was then accused of having served the anti-Semitic stereotype of the enterprising and patriotic Jew with this statement . At the FPÖ New Year's meeting in January of the same year, he had accused Muzicant that he (= Muzicant) would only be satisfied when the Austrian state had taken over the IKG's debt of 600 million schillings. He also commented on 13 February 2002 the President of the Austrian Constitutional Court , Ludwig Adamovich : ". If an already Adamovich is, you have to first of all ask if he has any current residence authorization" to the Austrian EU Commissioner Franz Fischler he called on June 8, 2004 because of his behavior in the matter of genetic engineering as a "traitor to the fatherland" and added: "Normally one would have to revoke someone's citizenship". He described the lawyer Rudolf Vouk , a Carinthian Slovenian , as a “frenzied lawbreaker”. Vouk had brought about a decision by the Constitutional Court after an alleged speeding violation in the eponymous main town of Sankt Kanzian am Klopeiner See , according to which the insufficient number of bilingual place-name signs is unconstitutional. Haider himself had flagrantly ignored the legal speed limits until the end.

populism

Haider won political supporters through criticism of grievances, some of which actually existed, but which were also exaggerated by populism. He criticized the party political proportional representation ("party bosses") as well as the foreigners, asylum seekers and "social parasites" who are supposedly responsible for social grievances. In contrast, he presented the “good, hardworking and decent” Austrians as an ideal. In his speeches, he particularly emphasized his appeals to latent resentments as well as deliberate taboo breaks and the alleged exposure of grievances.

Until 2001, the FPÖ under Haider emphasized that it should stand up against “felt and proportional representation” and against the “party book economy”. Haider managed to differentiate himself from the politicians of what he called the “old parties” with statements such as “I would rather be a wolf in sheep's clothing than a sheep in wolf's clothing”. In the opinion of his critics, however, in many cases he failed to find concepts to remedy the situation.

Place sign dispute

Jörg Haider commented on the Austrian Federal Constitution in a comment on December 29, 2005 on the ORF radio program on a constitutional court ruling on the place-name sign in Carinthia issued a few days earlier: "We do not accept the rulings of the Constitutional Court because the people want it that way." Haider described the Austrian State Treaty , which formed the basis for the formation of the Second Republic of Austria, as "historically meaningless" in connection with the street sign dispute in the southern border area with Slovenia on January 18, 2006.

On October 25, 2006, Haider was awarded the negative Big Brother Award in the "Lifelong Nuisance" category for disregarding the rights of the Slovenian ethnic group in Carinthia.

The national side of the Slovenian 2-cent coin is Fuerstenstein displayed. This decision was criticized by some Carinthians (including Haider) because, in their opinion, the Fürstenstein was not a historical element of the Republic of Slovenia. Following the announcement of the Slovenian government to map the prince stone on the 2-cent coins, was governor Jörg Haider the prince stone from the Museum of Carinthia spend ostentatiously in the foyer of the Carinthian Government. On Haider's initiative, the Fürstenstein was depicted on all official documents and letterheads of the state of Carinthia from 2007 to 2013 as a symbol of the state government.

Dealing with migrants

In July 2008, Haider made several attempts to deport asylum seekers from the state of Carinthia, which he ruled, to the Traiskirchen refugee camp . However, Interior Minister Maria Fekter prevented this.

On July 28, 2008, Haider announced that a special institution would be created in Carinthia : "Those who cannot behave themselves and commit serious crimes should in future be housed separately from the population." On October 6, 2008, Haider reported in a press conference of the commissioning of the asylum seekers' home on the Saualm . Five people have already been quartered in the special facility, up to a maximum of 50 could be. The “Sonderanstalt” is a former youth home in the municipality of Griffen in a secluded location at an altitude of 1200 m . The establishment of the special institute met with fierce criticism from several quarters, in addition to political opponents also from UNHCR and Catholic Action. On October 20, 2008, Governor-designate Gerhard Dörfler announced that the refugee department had initiated the relocation of a Chechen "to the special quarters on the Saualpe " ; the man is suspected of having been involved in an attempted rape.

Contacts with Saddam Hussein and Muammar al-Gaddafi

His visits to Saddam Hussein and his friendship with Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi , the son of Muammar al-Gaddafi, were well known . According to Walter Meischberger's diary entries , Haider received a transfer of 45 million euros from Gaddafi. The exact background of these connections is so far unknown.

In addition to Iraq and Libya, he traveled to Egypt, Kuwait, Syria and Iran. These trips led to criticism from several quarters. According to an investigation by the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior, Haider received a cash amount of USD 5 million from Saddam Hussein in 2002, which disappeared in Liechtenstein accounts. Haider's visit to Saddam, which was intended to deepen relations between Iraq and Austria, as well as between the FPÖ and the Baath Party, caused criticism from the USA and horror within Austria. Haider later criticized the execution of Saddam Hussein.

Relationship to Islam

In 2007, Haider supported the renovation of the building of the "Turkish Islamic Association for Cultural and Social Cooperation in Villach", almost half of whose members are Austrian citizens, with € 10,000. Joerg Haider has been in recent years one of the most prominent proponents of EU accession of Turkey from the " third camp ".

On the other hand, he opposed the construction of mosques in Carinthia by speaking out in favor of the “local image maintenance” law. In the dispute over the construction of a minaret , he said, referring to a controversial saying by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan : “Because not good, honest Muslims want to build these minarets, but radical Islamists in the background. They want to hang their symbols of power in our landscape ” . After the Constitutional Court overturned Haider's decision not to grant citizenship to a Muslim Sudanese living in Carinthia because of his refusal to shake hands with women, Haider described him as an “Islamist lobby”.

Speculation about Haider's sexual orientation

In 2000, the future Nobel Prize winner expressed Elfriede Jelinek in an interview in the German press about Haider: "He is the leader of a homoerotic men Bunds . And consciously working with homophilic codes, of course, without really homosexual confessing" Shortly before had pink by Praunheim reported on Haider's alleged homosexuality in a Dutch gay newspaper . In response to Jelinek's interview, Haider's sexual orientation was discussed primarily in the German media. The taz published a satire with the title: “Haider Outing: Jörg just wants to cuddle anyway.” The Homosexual Initiative ( HOSI ) Vienna presented this as Haider's outing and stated that “for around ten years there have been many rumors about Haider's homosexuality been known. On the one hand, we found it positive that rumors of this kind no longer harm the career of a politician ... on the other hand, an outing Haider would have been justified earlier if one viewed outing as a political act against hidden homosexuals who in important political functions through their anti -homosexual work harms other homosexuals. ”Haider himself denied the rumors in 2004 in an interview with Karin Resetarits .

Jörg Haider, the then federal party chairman of the BZÖ, together with his deputy and later successor Stefan Petzner in September 2008

Because Haider had visited a pub in Klagenfurt before his death, which was also frequented by homosexuals, and because his colleague Stefan Petzner had called him crying in front of the cameras as his “man of life ” and “man of my life”, there were Austrian and German people Journalists started a debate about whether Haider had homosexual contacts and how to deal with them publicly. His widow denied such a disposition in her late husband. Petzner's expression "Lebensmensch" was chosen as the Austrian word of the year 2008.

An interim injunction from the Graz regional court applied for by Haider's widow Claudia on his behalf prohibits the Bild-Zeitung from speculating about Jörg Haider's sexual orientation until further notice. In this context, the judge of the regional court ruled in November 2009: “The allegation and / or dissemination of the statement, Dr. Jörg Haider would have been homosexual and / or Dr. Jörg Haider would have been bisexual and / or Dr. Jörg Haider would have had a lover before his death and / or statements of the same meaning are to be avoided in the future. "

Alleged secret accounts in Liechtenstein

The Austrian news magazine "profil" published reports on alleged secret accounts of Haider in the summer of 2010:

  • A report is based on a previously unknown internal dossier of the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior ( Jörg Haider's secret financial transactions with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein . - Haider collected five million dollars in 2002 - Ewald Stadler is also named as the recipient. “Black money is sent to political decision-makers via Liechtenstein mailboxes flowed in Austria, Germany and Croatia. ").
  • Exclusive: Haider is said to have smuggled 45 million euros into Liechtenstein . - Haider's twelve mailboxes: The late Carinthian governor is said to have smuggled 45 million euros into Liechtenstein from dark channels. When opening accounts, the authorities came across a dense network of trust structures.

These reports were picked up by many domestic and foreign media. On August 17, Franz Limpl (ex-Saddam Hussein government official in Iraq) confirmed that Haider had received a total of $ 2.5 million from Hussein for a PR campaign.

"In the documents confiscated in Liechtenstein, no accounts or companies were found that were owned by Dr. Jörg Haider or his immediate environment have been or are being checked ”, this is the literal response from the Liechtenstein public prosecutor's office.

Illegal political party financing through the privatization of Hypo-Alpe-Adria-Bank

When the state-owned Hypo-Alpe-Adria-Bank AG was sold to BayernLB in 2007, the Carinthian state holding company paid a fee of six million euros to Villach tax advisor Dietrich Birnbacher for a six-page report, at the instigation and with permission of Haider. In the course of the investigation of the Hypo deal, Birnbacher and the Carinthian ÖVP chairman Josef Martinz were charged with breach of trust. Haider had already died at this point. During the trial, Birnbacher initially admitted that he was aware that the fee he had received was inadequate. Originally even the transfer of twelve million was planned. However, Haider halved the sum in the course of a conversation: " Birni, we can't pay you the twelve million euros, are you also satisfied with six million? “Birnbacher agreed to this at the time. After he finally expanded his confession in the process and admitted that it had been agreed with Haider and Martinz from the outset that he, Birnbacher, would donate part of the fee to the ÖVP and the BZÖ, Martinz also made a confession in which he also heavily burdened the deceased governor:

"After the Hypo sale was completed, [...] Haider and I developed the idea that something should go to the parties."

The former head of BayernLB, Werner Schmidt , who was sentenced to a conditional prison sentence in October 2014 in connection with the sale of Hypo Alpe Adria, admitted during the trial that he had bribed Jörg Haider. It was about 2.5 million euros for football sponsorship in Carinthia around the football stadium in Klagenfurt.

Before the morning of March 17, 2016 "strangers vented their anger over the Heta crime thriller". A 10 m long banner sewn from two white lengths of fabric with the sprayed text: “Thank you Jörg! Forever in your debt! ”Was emblazoned at 6.30 am on the Heta-Bank building, previously Hypo Alpe Adria , and was removed by the house technicians at 8 am. The thanks was mounted at a height of about 15 m on the easily climbed light screen grille in front of the street-side facade.

Styrian Spirit

In 2005, Haider arranged for Hypo-Alpe-Adria to acquire a stake in the Styrian Spirit airline and, despite its precarious financial situation, to grant it an unsecured loan of two million euros. Styrian Spirit filed for bankruptcy in 2006 and was liquidated. HAA board members Gert Xander and Wolfgang Kulterer were sentenced to several years imprisonment for infidelity in the case of the loan to Styrian Spirit. The reasons for the judgment stated that “a political will was implemented to the detriment of the bank”.

Alleged donation from Telekom Austria to the FPÖ

In the process of an alleged illegal party donation by Telekom Austria to the FPÖ, the former TA board member Rudolf Fischer stated in a partial confession that Haider had instructed Telekom to award an order worth € 600,000 to the advertising agency Gernot Rumpolds . The public prosecutor's office assumes that the FPÖ, which was on the verge of bankruptcy in 2004, could neither pay Rumpold for previous contracts nor raise the funds for advertising for the 2004 elections to the European Parliament. Haider then intervened with Telekom, which awarded a sham order to Rumpold's agency for several reports that were worthless according to the prosecutor. After Rumpold had received funds from Telekom Austria, he waived existing claims against the FPÖ. In the first instance, Rumpold was sentenced to three years' imprisonment on August 9, 2013, the court followed Fischer and the public prosecutor's office.

Awards

In 2004 he received the Great Silver Medal of Honor on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria from Federal President Thomas Klestil .

Publications

literature

Web links

Commons : Jörg Haider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Jörg Haider  - Quotes
 Wikinews: Jörg Haider  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Carinthian Provincial Government on the Internet ( Memento from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Jörg Haider's mother Dorothea is dead. In: krone.at. Retrieved June 15, 2016 .
  3. ^ Wiener Zeitung Online: The Political Phenomenon Jörg Haider ( Memento from February 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); or: Gerd Hollenstein, in: Outlook - Center for Austrian Studies, 2001, vol. 7, no. 2.
  4. ↑ Hubert Gaisbauer: Not lost - despite everything. 2000, p. 32.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Haider's political career on cenjur.de
  6. ↑ Die Presse: Out of the Curve of Life , October 12, 2008.
  7. ↑ The Silvania fraternity has meanwhile merged into the Silvania Vienna hunters, Haider became AH of the Silvania hunters through this path.
  8. ^ DÖW : FPÖ collection of quotations ( memento from September 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), ORF domestic report August 18, 1988 (3rd paragraph) quotation: “ You know as well as I do that the Austrian nation was a freak , an ideological freak. "
  9. ^ Walter Ötsch: Haider light. Handbook for demagogy. Czernin Verlag, Vienna: 2000, p. 145
  10. ↑ quoted from Czernin 2000, p. 31.
  11. ↑ Spiegel.de : Haider apologizes for Nazi jargon
  12. ^ The Austrian word of the year 2002 at oedeutsch.at
  13. ↑ Jörg Haider is again BZÖ chairman . On August 31, 2008 on de.euronews.com
  14. ↑ profile (No. 40, vol. 39, September 29, 2008), interview with Ewald Stadler : "Always believed in it"
  15. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Last honor for Jörg Haider is a state act ( memento of March 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), October 15, 2008
  16. ↑ VCM 2000, "start number 7928" ( Memento of 14 March 2009 at the Internet Archive )
    OE1: Haider-to-government negotiations ready ( Memento of 14 March 2009 at the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Kärntnerlied DVD with soloist Haider appears , oe24.at, October 14, 2008
    Male double sextet Klagenfurt: Our CDs
  18. ^ Kärntnerlieder for "Kärntner in Not" ( Memento from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung
  19. ^ Haider solo as a top seller , Der Standard, February 2, 2009
  20. ↑ Haider exhibition brings minus record ( Memento from September 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ^ Petzner: Haider was drunk at the time of the accident. The standard, accessed October 15, 2008 .
  22. ↑ Governor and BZÖ boss Jörg Haider had a fatal accident. The standard, accessed October 11, 2008 .
  23. ^ Right-wing populist Haider killed in a car accident
  24. ↑ https://newsv1.orf.at/081011-30450/ News.ORF.at
  25. ^ Accident reconstruction: Jörg Haider and the secret of the number 142 , Die Welt, October 14, 2017 (accessed on August 30, 2017)
  26. ↑ Investigations into Haider's accident were discontinued
  27. ^ Haider: When Lambichl became "Graceland" ( memento from April 25, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), report in Die Presse from October 15, 2008.
  28. ↑ Many pilgrims to Haider's accident site , report in Austria from November 1, 2008 (accessed August 30, 2017)
  29. ↑ Jörg Haider's death: Candles are still burning , report in Die Presse from November 3, 2008 (accessed August 30, 2017)
  30. ^ Haider funeral like a state act , Der Tagesspiegel, October 19, 2008
  31. ↑ Kleine Zeitung , October 19, 2008, p. 2. (online) ( Memento from February 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  32. ↑ Thousands have mourned Haider , report in Austria from October 15, 2008 (accessed on August 30, 2017)
  33. ↑ Austria: 25,000 people pay their last respects to Jörg Haider ( Memento from January 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), report in Die Zeit from October 18, 2008 (accessed on August 30, 2017)
  34. ^ Coats of arms dispute in Friuli over Haider funeral , report in Austria from October 15, 2008 (accessed on August 30, 2017)
  35. ↑ Lega Nord delegation comes to the funeral , Der Standard, October 15, 2008
  36. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  37. ↑ Jörg Haider: Wreaths at the place of worship and a sea of ​​candles. In: DiePresse.com. October 11, 2009, accessed January 2, 2018 .
  38. ^ Ceremonial commemorative mass for Jörg Haider in Gurk and unveiling of the sculpture "Connecting Hands" , Province of Carinthia, January 25, 2011
  39. ^ Carinthia bizarre: FPK has taken over "Pflege" from Jörg Haiders Marterl , Format, May 15, 2013
  40. ^ The Battle of Carinthia , Tagesspiegel, January 17, 2010
  41. ↑ "Dear Jörg, please help us" , Der Standard, January 24, 2010
  42. ↑ "Dr. Jörg Haider Prayer League “was satire , Der Standard, July 31, 2012
  43. ↑ Winkler: Haider was a "political bank robber" , Kleine Zeitung , October 26, 2012
  44. ^ Haider's Transfiguration - Carinthia Today , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 17, 2010
  45. ↑ Jürgens: "Politics makes love of home painful" ( Memento from September 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung , July 11, 2009
  46. ↑ Jörg Haiders (1950–2008) last hours: The protocol of a conspiracy. ( Memento from November 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Profile, October 18, 2008
  47. ↑ Conspiracy theories surrounding Haider's death: Von bombs, the Mossad and knockout drops , News, October 29, 2008
  48. ↑ In the Crosshairs of the Conspirators , Der Standard, October 24, 2008
  49. ↑ Ex-FPÖler Klement suspected Mossad assassination of Haider , the default 15 October, 2008
  50. ^ Haider Accidental Death: Conspiracy theories around accidental death are booming on the Internet , Der Standard, October 17, 2008
  51. ↑ Kleine Zeitung  : BZÖ wants to rename Neuer Platz to Jörg-Haider-Platz , September 14, 2018
  52. ^ Democracy and the image of the Jews: Anti-Semitism in the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany , Lars Rensmann , ISBN 978-3-531-14006-3 , p. 281.
  53. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  54. ↑ Walter Fanta, Valentin Sima (Ed.): "Stand in the middle of it in the country". The European comrades' meeting on the Carinthian Ulrichsberg from the beginning until today. Klagenfurt: Drava, p. 100.
  55. ↑ Archive link ( memento from June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
    http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/vermischtes/2008/06/18/ns-verbrecher/haider-will-keine-ausgabe.html
    http: //nachrichten.t-online.de/c/15/38/77/86/15387786.html
  56. ↑ Gottfried Korn: Politics and politicians as objects of justice. A European problem from an Austrian perspective. In: Wolfgang R. Langenbucher (Ed.): The freedom of communication in society. Journalism, Vierteljahreshefte für Kommunikationforschung, Westdeutscher Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-531-13899-5 , pp. 263–283 excerpt from Google Books (quotation p. 274)
  57. ^ Art of drinking and Haider's Stasi file
  58. ↑ Helga Embacher, Bernadette Edtmaier, Alexandra Preitschopf: Anti-Semitism in Europe. Case studies of a global phenomenon in the 21st century. Böhlau, Vienna 2019, p. 236 f.
  59. ↑ salzburg24: Haider: The bitterest opponents ( Memento from March 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  60. ↑ "Furious Lawbreaker"
  61. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung Online Jörg Haider's accidental death: Legend of the Holy Drinker ( memento of October 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), October 16, 2008
  62. ↑ Big Brother Awards Austria, winner 2006
  63. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 17, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
  64. ↑ Fürstenstein in future on Carinthia's letterhead. ORF, December 18, 2007, accessed on February 6, 2014 .
  65. ↑ State of Carinthia has a new logo. oesterreich.at, July 8, 2013, accessed on February 6, 2014 .
  66. ^ Asylum seekers in Carinthia: Once in Traiskirchen and back , article in [Die Presse | Presse] of July 23, 2008
  67. ^ LH Haider: Criminal asylum seekers should be housed in special institutions , BZÖ press release from July 28, 2008
  68. ↑ LH Haider: Special facility for asylum seekers who have committed criminal offenses , press release BZÖ of October 6, 2008
  69. ↑ Clarification: No UNHCR clean bill of health for the Saualm asylum area , UNHCR press release of October 10, 2008
  70. ^ Asylum: Catholic action criticizes "Sonderanstalt" on Saualm , press release Kathpress from October 9, 2008
  71. ↑ LH Dörfler: Minister of the Interior has urgent need for action ( Memento of January 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), article on the website of the Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government
  72. ↑ “The bread falls out of my mouth” , Der Falter, 31/10
  73. ^ Anti-Defamation League: Joerg Haider and Saddam Hussein: Not-so-strange Bedfellows ( Memento from October 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), December 13, 2002
  74. ^ Jörg Haider's secret financial transactions with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein , Profil, August 7, 2010
  75. ↑ Horror at Haider's visit to Saddam , Spiegel, February 12, 2002
  76. ↑ Saddam arrest: Haider compares Bush with Saddam , Die Presse, December 17, 2003
  77. ^ LH Haider visiting the "Turkish Islamic Association for Cultural and Social Cooperation in Villach" ( Memento of January 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), website for the Province of Carinthia, March 13, 2007
  78. ↑ - ( Memento from December 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  79. ^ Haider's "Ortsbildpflege" , Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 15, 2008
  80. ↑ a b Interview with Tom Schaffer ( memento from January 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in the Falter from October 22, 2007
  81. ↑ Haider: “The Constitutional Court becomes an Islamist lobby”. In: DiePresse.com. January 14, 2008, accessed December 31, 2017 .
  82. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost: February 27, 2000
  83. ↑ Press review
  84. ↑ taz No. 6098 of March 21, 2000 .
  85. ↑ Press release
  86. ↑ Interview with Karin Resetarits ( Memento from September 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  87. ↑ Boulevardesque bed stories. In: Der Standard from October 9, 2008, ( [1] )
    Ulrich Weinzierl , How Austria deals with Haider's bisexuality , in Die Welt from October 20, 2008 ()
    Markus Huber, Üble Nachrede , in Der Tagesspiegel from October 23, 2008, ( [2] )
    Robert Misik , Haider and the men , ( archived copy ( memento from October 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ))
    Marco Schreuder , questionable “double life”? In: Der Standard of October 24, 2008 ()
    Conspiracy theories and alleged homosexuality. In: Focus from October 24, 2008 ( [3] )
    Jan Feddersen , Die Tränen von Stefan Petzner , in taz from October 25, 2008 ( [4] )
    Michael Frank, Haider's secret double life. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 29, 2008, ( - ( Memento of December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ))
    Julia Jüttner, Ramponierter Gedenken. In: Der Spiegel from October 9, 2009
  88. ↑ Claudia Haider: "Haider: My Jörg was not homosexual". In: Bunte from December 11, 2008.
  89. ^ "Lebensmensch" Haider - word of the year. ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Basler Zeitung from December 11, 2008
  90. ↑ APA / Elke Galvin: Court posthumously protects Haider's privacy . Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved November 19, 2009.
    APA: Jörg Haider's private life concerns the courts . Retrieved on November 19, 2009.
    oe24.at: Dead Haider wins sex trial . Retrieved November 19, 2009.
  91. ↑ profil.at of August 7, 2010
  92. ↑ profil.at of July 31, 2010
  93. ↑ google.de
  94. ^ Swiss television - Tagesschau
  95. ↑ The mystery of Haider accounts continues. Ö1, August 2, 2008
  96. ↑ Land joins Birnbacher trial
  97. ↑ Der Standard - Carinthia demands payment back
  98. ↑ Profile -… but nobody asked me
  99. ↑ orf.at - Martinz and Birnbacher confessed to ORF.at July 25, 2012
  100. ^ Tiroler Tageszeitung Online: Ex-boss of BayernLB admits bribery of Jörg Haider , October 27, 2014
  101. ↑ http://kaernten.orf.at/news/stories/2763329/ “Thank you Jörg” poster on Heta headquarters, orf.at March 17, 2016, accessed on March 17, 2016.
  102. ^ "Haider pounded on millions" ( Memento from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung , February 6, 2013
  103. ^ Multi-year prison sentences in the Styrian Spirit trial of February 8, 2013, accessed on February 8, 2013.
  104. ↑ A bang in the telecommunications process: ex-manager charged Jörg Haider , Der Standard, May 22, 2013
  105. ↑ Jörg hat it , Kurier, May 19, 2013
  106. ↑ Telecommunications process: Rumpold under pressure , Kurier, May 23, 2013
  107. ↑ Three years imprisonment for Gernot Rumpold and Rudolf Fischer and 600,000 euros in damages to Telekom , Der Standard, August 9, 2013
  108. ↑ OTS0234 of June 16, 2004/17: 03: Speech by Federal President Dr. Thomas Klestil on the occasion of the presentation of the Great Gold Medal of Honor on Ribbon to Federal Minister Herbert Haupt and the Great Silver Medal of Honor on Ribbon to Governor Dr. Jörg Haider ; Retrieved Nov. 21, 2011.
  109. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Haider, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ, BZÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the national council
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Goisern on Lake Hallstatt
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2008
Place of death Köttmannsdorf