Johannes Ditz

Johannes Ditz (born June 22, 1951 in Kirchberg am Wechsel ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1971, Johannes Ditz studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business . In 1978 he received his doctorate in social and economic sciences with the thesis on "The Austrian budget policy from 1965 to 1975".

From 1978 to 1979 he was employed by the Federation of Industry . From 1979 he worked in the department for economic issues of the ÖVP federal party leadership. In January 1987 he became State Secretary for Finance under Finance Minister Ferdinand Lacina . In March 1988 he resigned from this office because of differences with the then ÖVP federal party leader Alois Mock and became a member of the National Council . During this time Ditz also took over the management of the ÖVP Economic Association in the Austrian Chamber of Commerce . From April 1989 to January 1993 he was its executive secretary general. Ditz remained in the National Council until 1993, in October 1991 he again took over the State Secretariat in the Ministry of Finance and remained in this office until May 1995. Short periods as a member of the National Council followed from November to December 1994 and two years later, from January to March 1996.

In 1995, Ditz followed Wolfgang Schüssel as Minister of Economics . In June 1996 he resigned. His successor was Johann Farnleitner .

In August of the same year, he switched to the private sector and became Chief Financial Officer of the Post and Telekom Austria holding and Deputy General Director of Post and Telekom AG. In 1999 he and Rudolf Streicher were appointed to the ÖIAG board. In autumn 2003, Ditz was appointed by the then Styrian Governor Waltraud Klasnic as head of the supervisory board of ESTAG and was briefly its interim board member in 2004. At the end of November 2005, Franz Voves ( SPÖ ) became the new governor of Styria. Due to this change of power, Ditz announced his resignation as chairman of the supervisory board.

In February 2006 he was CEO of A-Tec Industries AG from Mirko Kovats for a month before Kovats took over the helm again.

In September 2006 he returned to politics. In the personal committee "Vienna for Schüssel", he supported Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel in the election campaign for the 2006 National Council election .

In January 2010, Ditz was appointed chairman of the supervisory board of the emergency nationalized Hypo Group Alpe Adria .

He is married and has three children.

Web links

• Johannes Ditz on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Radio reports with Johannes Ditz in the online archive of the Austrian Mediathek

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ditz is to become the head of the Hypo supervisory board, Scholten vice-president on ORF from January 18, 2010, accessed on January 18, 2010