Karl Baron

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Karl Baron
Karl Baron 2020
Nation: AustriaAustria Austria
DTM
First race: Hungaroring 1988
Last race: Hungaroring 1988
Teams (manufacturers)
1988  Werginz (BMW)
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR
1 (1) - - -
Podiums: -
Overall wins: -
Points: -
Template: Infobox DTM driver / maintenance / old parameters

Karl Baron (born April 21, 1962 ) is an Austrian politician of the HC Strache team - Alliance for Austria , (formerly FPÖ ) and a transport company as well as a former racing car driver . Since November 2010 he has been a member of the Vienna City Council and State Parliament .

job

Baron has been the managing director of a transport and trading company and its shareholders since 1988. This company is particularly involved in the rental of construction containers and the disposal of construction waste .

politics

Baron's political career began in the Chamber of Commerce and district politics, with Baron being involved in the Vienna Chamber of Commerce in the list “Freedom and independence for Austrian medium-sized companies (FPÖ) - List of independent entrepreneurs and freelancers”. There he is president, member of the board of the regional group Vienna and division spokesman for transport and traffic. In the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, Baron works as a committee member of the regional guild of motor vehicle technicians, committee member of the transporters specialist group and is deputy head of the freight transport sector. In local politics, he was active as a district councilor for the FPÖ Donaustadt from 1989, and he also temporarily served as the club chairman of the FPÖ district councils Vienna-Donaustadt. Between June 27, 1999 and November 26, 2010 he was deputy district chairman in Vienna-Donaustadt before he was sworn in as a member of the Vienna City Council and member of the Vienna State Parliament on November 25, 2010 and switched to state politics.

Baron is considered a supporter of Heinz-Christian Strache , who had to resign from his office in the wake of the Ibiza affair and subsequent allegations of incorrect expense reports. After speculation that Baron Strache could enable a return to politics by running for the Chamber of Commerce elections, he was voted out of office as President of the Freedom Economy in Vienna in December 2019 . In the course of the following internal party conflicts, Baron and two other mandataries ( Klaus Handler and Dietrich Kops ) resigned from the Vienna FPÖ state parliament club and founded an independent club under the name Die Allianz für Österreich .

Motorsport

Baron was also active in motorsport. He started in 1987 in the European Touring Car Championship and the World Touring Car Championship. In 1988 he drove in the German Touring Car Championship . In 1998 he competed in the FIA ​​GT Championship in the GT2 class. In 2002 he drove in the Euro GT Series and finished 14th in class C. In 2003 he stayed true to this series and finished 6th in the NGT class. In 2005 he drove in the Italian (34th place) and the European (12th place) Ferrari Challenge. In 2007 he finished 19th in the Italian Ferrari Challenge.

Career stations

Web links

Commons : Karl Baron  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strache supporter Baron loses position. In: ORF.at . December 9, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  2. ^ FPÖ Vienna: Strache supporters found their own club. In: orf.at. December 12, 2019, accessed December 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Baron, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian transport company and politician (FPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1962