Josef Ostermayer

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Josef Ostermayer (2008)
With the then Federal President Heinz Fischer and Defense Minister Gerald Klug at the opening of the memorial for those persecuted by the Nazi military justice on Ballhausplatz , 2014

Josef Ostermayer (born March 12, 1961 in Schattendorf , Burgenland ) is a former Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). From 2008 to 2013 he was State Secretary , then Federal Minister in the Austrian Federal Chancellery until 2016 .

Life

After graduating from the Bundesrealgymnasium Mattersburg , Ostermayer began studying law and graduated in 1985 as Dr. iur. from. From 1987 he worked as a legal advisor and representative at the Austrian Tenants' Association , where he became a senior lawyer in 1988, and in 1994 he was appointed managing director of wohnfonds_wien (formerly the Vienna Land Provisioning and Urban Renewal Fund ). When Ostermayer's supervisor at the time, the incumbent City Councilor for Housing, Housing and Urban Renewal Werner Faymann , was appointed Minister of Infrastructure in 2007 , Ostermayer became his head of cabinet .

From 2 December 2008 was Ostermayer Secretary of State in the Federal Chancellery for government coordination and media of the first faymann government . He was considered the “right hand man” of Federal Chancellor Faymann, as a politician he was, among other things, a negotiator at the federal level in the Carinthian local sign dispute , which was ended in 2011.

From December 16, 2013, Ostermayer was Chancellery Minister in the Federal Government Faymann II , on March 1, 2014 he took over the office of Federal Minister for Art and Culture, Constitution and Public Service; the area of ​​responsibility “public service” was subsequently handed over to the new State Secretary in the Federal Chancellery Sonja Stessl in December 2014 .

On May 17, 2016 it was officially announced that Thomas Drozda was planned by the newly sworn Chancellor Christian Kern as the successor to Ostermayer; On May 18, 2016, Ostermayer was dismissed from the government by the Federal President at the suggestion of Kern.

On September 14, 2016 it was announced that Ostermayer will be one of four board members of Sozialbau AG , a non-profit housing construction company, from November 1, 2016 .

Private

Josef Ostermayer is married to a teacher, he has a daughter and a son.

A great uncle of Ostermayer is Josef Grössing . Grössing was a brother of Ostermayer's grandmother and was shot dead by members of the front-line fighters in Schattendorf in 1927 at the age of six as part of a confrontation between the Republican Protection Association and the Association of German-Austrian soldiers. The acquittal of the accused in the so-called “ Schattendorfer Verdict ” subsequently led to the Vienna Justice Palace fire .

honors and awards

literature

  • Oliver Pink : Josef Ostermayer: The most powerful State Secretary of all time . In: Die Presse , print edition, February 7, 2009 ( online )

Web links

Commons : Josef Ostermayer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Grössing. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
  2. ↑ "I obviously spare myself the intoxication" - Double interview with Josef Ostermayer and Paulus Hochgatterer derStandard.at
  3. ↑ Official Carinthia celebrates the standard.at signpost solution, August 16, 2011
  4. ↑ Ceremonial event for the Carinthian local sign solution photo service of the Federal Chancellery, August 16, 2011
  5. ↑ Order for the government: "Where was my achievement?" ( Memento from April 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Kleine Zeitung , January 24, 2012
  6. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB) parlament.gv.at
personal data
SURNAME Ostermayer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ)
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Schattendorf