Karl-Werner Rüsch

Karl-Werner Rüsch (1981)

Karl-Werner Rüsch (born September 29, 1937 in Tehran ) is a former Austrian politician ( FPÖ ) and civil engineer . Rüsch was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 1969 to 1974 and a member of the Vorarlberg state government from 1976 to 1984 as a regional councilor .

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Karl-Werner Rüsch was born on September 29, 1937 as the son of the civil engineer Werner Rüsch from Dornbirn and his wife Helene Karoline in the Iranian capital Tehran. After his family returned to Vorarlberg, Rüsch attended elementary school and the Dornbirn secondary school in his hometown of Dornbirn , where he graduated from high school in 1956 . After completing basic military service in the Austrian Armed Forces in Innsbruck, he studied construction at the Technical University of Munich from 1957 to 1962 . In April 1962 he became the completion of his studies in Munich to engineer graduated . He then became assistant to Professor Pönninger in Vienna for a year before he was hired in 1963 as head of the technical department for the construction of the Kops reservoir dam . In 1966 he became head of the civil engineering department at Hinteregger and in 1968 he switched to self-employment as a civil engineer.

In the state election on October 19, 1969 , Karl-Werner Rüsch, who had only become a party member of the FPÖ in 1968, was elected to the Vorarlberg state parliament as a member of the Dornbirn electoral district . After a legislative period, he resigned from the state parliament in 1974, but on November 17, 1976 he was appointed by the state parliament to succeed his party colleague Hans Sperger as the regional councilor for spatial planning and building law, hydraulic engineering, water supply systems, sewerage, sewage treatment and waste disposal. He remained in the Vorarlberg regional government until April 20, 1984, after which he was appointed Vice President of the Austrian National Bank on April 23 .

In November 1995, Karl-Werner Rüsch resigned from the Freedom Party, where he was temporarily deputy state party leader and member of the federal party leadership. When the OeNB changed its business structure in 1999, Rüsch became a member of the National Bank's General Council. He left this position on July 31, 2004 and became an independent civil engineer again before retiring in 2010.

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Commons : Karl-Werner Rüsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography of Karl-Werner Rüsch in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.