Josef Horn

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Josef Horn (born November 20, 1947 in Singsdorf , (today part of Rottenmann ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ )). Horn was a member of the National Council from 2000 to 2002 .

education and profession

Horn attended elementary and secondary school between 1953 and 1961 and learned the trade of industrial electrician between 1961 and 1964 . After his apprenticeship, Horn worked as an electrician at Veitsch-Radex in Trieben until 1966 and worked as a shift electrician between 1967 and 1977. Horn graduated from the foreman school from 1972 to 1975 and then worked from 1977 to 1988 in the field of electrical planning and PLC programming. Horn was workshop foreman from 1989 to 1992 and from 1993 worked in the maintenance support in the electrical sector. From 1985 to 2002 he also ran a farm with his wife. Then his son Günter took over the farm and runs it with his wife Daniela and his sons Raffael and Christof.

politics

Horn was heavily involved in the trade union and professional representation. From 1992 to 1996 he was district councilor in Liezen and from 1996 district chairman of the ÖGB Liezen. Since 1996 he has also been a member of the state executive of the ÖGB Styria and was chairman of the works council for employees at the Trieben plant from 1992 to 2007. From 1994 he was deputy chairman of the central works council of Veitsch-Radex GmbH and from 1998 a member of the group works council of Radex-Heraklith (RHI) AG. Horn was chairman of the European works council at RHI AG from 1996 to 2007 and from 1998 to 2007 a member of the control meeting of the insurance company of the Austrian mining industry. In 2008 Horn resigned from his position as ÖGB district president due to retirement.

After the death of Brunhilde Plank, Member of the National Council, Horn moved up to the National Council between September 17, 2000 and December 19, 2002. Although Horn wanted to extend his membership in parliament, he was ranked behind Anita Fleckl on the SPÖ regional list in the 2002 National Council election and thus failed to make it into the National Council. From January 2006 Horn has been a regional chamber councilor for the SPÖ in the Styrian Chamber of Agriculture. There he exercises the function of the chairman of the control committee and, together with the entire committee, checks the conduct of the chamber as a whole as well as the individual departments and institutions. On November 4, 2008, Horn was awarded the professional title of Economics Council. In January 2011, Horn ran as parliamentary spokesman for the SPÖ farmers for the Styrian Chamber of Agriculture and has again been entrusted with the management of the control committee. Horn has been a local councilor in his home town of Rottenmann since April 2013, as well as being the mayor of the Bärndorf district. For his more than 25 years of voluntary work as a harvest reporter for Statistics Austria, Horn was appointed by the BPR in October 2013. awarded the gold medal of merit of the Republic of Austria.

Private

Horn is widowed after the death of his wife Theresia in February 2011, father of three children and grandfather of seven grandchildren.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kleine Zeitung : ÖGB with new structure, May 10, 2008
  2. ↑ Kleine Zeitung : District SPÖ surprises with Anita Fleckl as a candidate, October 3, 2002

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personal data
SURNAME Horn, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Singsdorf