Josef Buchner (politician)

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Josef Buchner (born March 2, 1942 in Hagenberg im Mühlkreis ) is a retired Austrian politician. The former municipal employee was a member of the Austrian National Council between 1986 and 1990 and party leader of the United Greens of Austria (VGÖ) between 1983 and 1994 . Buchner was mayor of the municipality of Steyregg from 1997 to 2012 .

education and profession

Josef Buchner completed elementary and secondary school as well as the Bundesrealgymnasium for working people in Linz, which he completed with the Matura. Buchner then worked as a VÖEST worker and then moved to the municipality of Steyregg as a local civil servant (head of the construction and economic department).

politics

Josef Buchner was originally a member of the SPÖ and was involved in his home town of Steyregg in the 1970s against the air pollution caused by VÖEST . The Steyregger Citizens' Initiative for Environmental Protection (SBU), which he founded, received 18% of the votes when it ran for the first time in the Steyregger municipal council elections in 1979. Buchner subsequently became Vice Mayor of Steyregg. At the beginning of the 1980s, Buchner became involved in the United Greens of Austria and was elected deputy chairman of the party on February 19, 1983. After the failure of the party in the National Council elections in 1983 with 1.93% under Alexander Tollmann , Buchner took over the federal chairmanship on June 26, 1983. Buchner managed to consolidate the party and streamlined the organization. Furthermore, a party program based on the ecological-social market economy was decided under Buchner . Party alliances with the Alternative List had little success, however, and only in Vorarlberg did they succeed in entering the state parliament. In Upper Austria, however, Buchner failed in the 1985 state parliament elections. In the end there was an alliance between the bourgeois VGÖ and the left, green camp. Buchner was thus one of the top list places on the list of Freda Meissner-Blau for the National Council elections in 1986 ( The Green Alternative - List Freda Meissner-Blau ). After the electoral success of the list, Buchner entered parliament in 1986. Since Buchner's VGÖ ran against the Green Alternative in the Vienna state elections, he was expelled from the Green Parliamentary Club in December 1987. Buchner continued to work as a Wilder MP until 1990 and tried to gain a foothold with the United Greens of Austria. Despite some successes in various municipal and state elections, his party was unable to establish itself in the long term. Attempts to reach an agreement with the Green Alternative failed, for the last time in 1993 before the National Council elections in 1994. After it was announced on October 17 that the VGÖ and the Green Alternative would run together in 1994, Jörg Haider said that Buchner and the VGÖ would also be involved talked to him about working together. Although Buchner denied having ever negotiated with the FPÖ , the federal board of the Green Alternative subsequently terminated the cooperation. Buchner's dream of a renewed period in the National Council was broken. As a result, the former football coach Adi Pinter was elected the new VGÖ boss in June 1994, but he suffered a bitter defeat in the elections with 0.12%.

Buchner then concentrated on the work in his home town of Steyregg. His Steyregger Citizens' Initiative for Environmental Protection (SBU) achieved in the 1997 elections with 29.9% of the vote an increase of 2.1% and for the first time second place. In the direct mayor election, Buchner was able to prevail with more than 50% in the first ballot and thus became Austria's first green mayor. In 2003 Buchner succeeded in being re-elected as mayor in the municipal council elections with more than 70% and in 2009 with 59.99% of the valid votes. With 36.8% in 2003, the SBU became the party with the highest number of votes in Steyregg for the first time. In the municipal council elections in 2009, the SBU was confirmed as the party with the most votes with 34.09%. On his 70th birthday, Buchner announced his retirement from active politics.

As his successor, he nominated the Steyregger Hans Würzburger, who was elected Mayor of Steyregg with 53.5% in the runoff election in 2012.

Awards

literature

  • Othmar Pruckner: A Brief History of the Greens. Events - personalities - dates . Ueberreuter, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8000-7124-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Steyregg. "Elections and results" ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Stadtgemeinde Steyregg Downloaded on September 2, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steyregg.at
  2. ↑ Gold Medal of Merit for Josef Buchner in my district from October 28, 2013, accessed on September 19, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Buchner, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (VGÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagenberg in the Mühlkreis