Josef Türtscher
Josef Türtscher (born July 14, 1960 in Sonntag - Buchboden ) is an Austrian mountain farmer and politician ( ÖVP ). He lives in Sonntag and represented the ÖVP in the Vorarlberg state parliament from 1994 to 2019 . Türtscher is married and has five grown daughters.
Live and act
Türtscher graduated from the agricultural college at the rural school and education center for Vorarlberg in Hohenems and completed his training as an agricultural master. He also learned the job of a waiter. He has been involved in politics since 1983 and was regional chairman of the young farmers' rural youth. In 1986 he was elected to the Chamber of Commerce in the Vorarlberg Chamber of Agriculture , a mandate he held until 2016. In addition, he has been chairman of the Großes Walsertal regional planning association since 1997.
After the state elections in Vorarlberg in 1994 , Türtscher was sworn in for the first time as a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament on October 4, 1994. In the 1999 , 2004 , 2009 and 2014 state elections , Türtscher was re-elected each time and was most recently one of the three mandataries of the Vorarlberg People's Party from the Bludenz constituency .
In the state parliament, Josef Türtscher was the area spokesman for the ÖVP state parliament club for the issues of agriculture and family. In addition, Türtscher was chairman of the energy policy committee in the state parliament in the 30th legislative period and was deputy chairman of the agricultural committee. Josef Türtscher was most recently, with his more than 25-year term as a member of the state parliament, together with Ernst Hagen from the FPÖ, who also joined the state parliament on October 4, 1994, the longest-serving member in the Vorarlberg state parliament. After the state elections in 2019 , in which Türtscher no longer ran, he left the state parliament on November 6, 2019 when the new state parliament members were sworn in.
Web links
- Josef Türtscher ( Memento from November 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Vorarlberger Landtag.
- Biography of Josef Türtscher in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.
Individual evidence
- ^ Vorarlberg Landtag passes outgoing MPs. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). October 30, 2019, accessed November 6, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Türtscher, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sunday (Vorarlberg) |