Jürgen Bodenseer

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Jürgen Bodenseer (born February 8, 1947 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ), doctor of law and entrepreneur. He was a member of the Tyrolean Parliament and is President of the Tyrol Chamber of Commerce . He was chairman of the Tyrolean Economic Association until April 25, 2016 .

Jürgen Bodenseer attended the elementary school in Wilten from 1953 and switched to the academic high school in 1957 , where he graduated in 1965. He then studied from 1966 to 1971 at the University of Innsbruck . Bodenseer has been working in his parents' trading company since he was a student. He is heavily involved in the Wirtschaftsbund and was regional chairman of the Junge Wirtschaft from 1976 to 1978. From 1990 to April 2016 he was regional chairman of the Tyrolean Economic Association and since 2003 Vice President of the Austrian Economic Association. Since 1994 he has been on the supervisory board of the Innsbruck Exhibition Center and a member of the executive committee. Since 2006 he has also been President of Innsbruck Trade Fair and since 1998 Honorary Consul of the Slovak Republic. Between 2000 and 2005 he was Head of Trade in the Tyrol Chamber of Commerce, and in 2004 he was elected President of the Tyrol Chamber of Commerce.

Between 1994 and 1999 he represented the ÖVP in the Tyrolean state parliament. In 2003 he moved back into the state parliament, but had to resign from his seat on December 31, 2005, since according to the statute of the Tyrolean People's Party, the function of chamber president is incompatible with a state parliament mandate. On April 25, 2016, he was voted out of office as regional chairman of the Tyrolean Economic Association in Igls. With 55% of the votes cast, Franz Hörl was elected as his successor.

In 2012, he made a name for himself when people from Lake Constance considered reintroducing the death penalty. An attitude that he gave up afterwards.

As managing director of the Innsbruck exhibition hall, Jürgen Bodenseer refused, despite the mayor's urgent request, to terminate a rental agreement with the right-wing extremist Deutsche Burschenschaft (DB).

Bodenseer is married and has six children. Between 1996 and 1997 he was president of FC Tirol Innsbruck . He is also considered to be the author of the “Der Rabe” column that appears in the Tyrolean daily newspaper .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORF Tirol Bodenseer resigns from the state parliament, December 27, 2005
  2. ↑ VP Bodenseer thinks out loud about reintroducing the death penalty . April 17, 2012
  3. ↑ Burschenschafter Assembly: Bodenseer sees nothing forbidden . Tiroler Tageszeitung, accessed on March 9, 2020
  4. ↑ "The Raven"

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personal data
SURNAME Bodenseer, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES The Raven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck