Karlheinz Töchterle

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Karlheinz Töchterle (2012)

Karlheinz Töchterle (born May 13, 1949 in Brixlegg , Tyrol ) is an Austrian classical philologist and politician . From 2007 to 2011 he was Rector of the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck and from April 21, 2011 to December 16, 2013 Federal Minister for Science and Research . From October 2013 to November 2017 he was a member of the National Council .

Life

Karlheinz Töchterle studied from the winter semester 1969/70 at the University of Innsbruck the subjects Classical Philology and German . Study visits also took him to the University of Konstanz and the University of Padua . In 1976 he was awarded a doctorate in Classical Philology for his work “ Cicero's State Writing in Classes”. phil. PhD . Two years later he completed the teaching examination in German and Latin and was awarded a Mag. Phil. sponded . Töchterle completed his habilitation in Classical Philology in 1986 with the work “ Seneca - Oedipus ” . From 1976 to 1997 he worked as a university assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Innsbruck. Substitute professorships led him to the University of Graz and the University of Munich .

In 1997, Karlheinz Töchterle was appointed to the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Innsbruck. (From 1987 to 1989 he was chairman of the Austrian study commission for Classical Philology.) From 2000 to 2007, Töchterle was also head of the Institute for Languages ​​and Literatures and head of studies at the Faculty of Philology and Cultural Studies at the University of Innsbruck. He was chairman of the board of the humanities faculty from 1998 to 2004. From 2005 to 2007 he was director of studies of the philological and cultural studies faculty.

From October 1, 2007 to April 21, 2011, he succeeded Manfried Gantner as Rector of the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck . On December 14, 2010, he was unanimously re-elected by the University Council and Senate for the period from 2011 to 2015. On April 19, 2011 it was announced that Töchterle Beatrix Karl will succeed as Federal Minister for Science and Research . Tilmann Märk was therefore elected on April 21, initially on an interim basis, and finally officially on December 13, 2011 as rector of the University of Innsbruck.

Töchterle's main research areas are ancient drama , literature from the imperial era , neo-Latin literature , reception history and specialist didactics . He is an advocate of tuition fees and access restrictions at universities. In 2011 Töchterle succeeded in bringing the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies to the University of Innsbruck, only the second research institution of its kind in the world.

From 2015 he was President of the Austrian Research Foundation , and at the end of June 2018 Reinhold Mitterlehner was elected as his successor.

politics

Karlheinz Töchterle (r., 2012)

In addition to his job, Töchterle drew attention to himself through his ecological commitment in state politics. Until he took office as rector of Innsbruck University, he was a councilor in Telfes im Stubai from 1992 , headed the environmental committee and was also engaged as a cultural advisor. In 1994 he was elected to the Tyrolean state parliament for Die Grünen Tirol , but for professional reasons he renounced the mandate in favor of the citizens' initiative . Two years later, he ran against Johannes Voggenhuber in the election for the top candidate of the Greens for the European elections in 1996 .

Töchterle is non-party .

Karlheinz Töchterle was nominated as Federal Minister for Science and Research on April 19, 2011. His inauguration as Federal Minister in the Federal Government Faymann I by Federal President Heinz Fischer took place on April 21, 2011.

Although not a party member, Töchterle ran for the ÖVP in the 2013 National Council election in Tyrol , received many preferential votes and accepted the mandate.

On December 12, 2013, it was announced that Töchterle would not be a member of the Faymann II federal government , as the ÖVP's cabinet no longer had an independent Ministry of Science. Töchterle criticized this decision made by the ÖVP chairman Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger and announced that he would vote against it in the National Council. The Viennese news magazine profil described it as probably the worst sin of the new coalition to abolish the science ministry in favor of a completely superfluous family ministry.

Private

Töchterle is married and has two children.

He has written several picture and text volumes about the Stubai Valley and Tyrol and has been a long-term employee of the Stubai cultural initiative. He plays the trumpet and flugelhorn in the brass band .

He has been a member of the Roman Catholic school association K.Ö.St.V. Sternkorona Hall in the MKV .

honors and awards

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literature

Web links

Commons : Karlheinz Töchterle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ iPoint - the information portal of the University of Innsbruck: Karlheinz Töchterle is the new Rector of the University of Innsbruck , August 8, 2007, accessed on April 22, 2011
  2. ^ ORF: Rector Töchterle unanimously re-elected , December 14, 2010, accessed on April 22, 2012
  3. ^ A b ÖVP team presents: Briefly "extraordinary solution" , Die Presse , April 19, 2011, accessed on May 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ Tyrolean universities want to choose their own students , Der Standard , September 27, 2010
  5. ↑ a b c Karlheinz Töchterle: Party-free Grüner buys ÖVP ticket ( memento from January 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), APA, April 19, 2011, accessed on April 22, 2012
  6. ↑ Reinhold Mitterlehner elected as the new President of the Austrian Research Association . OTS bulletin of July 3, 2018, accessed July 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ According to BMI , accessed on September 11, 2013
  8. ^ News magazine profil , No. 51, December 16, 2013, p. 40
  9. ↑ Office for Public Relations and Cultural Service of the University of Innsbruck: Rector celebrated 60th birthday . Retrieved March 24, 2011.
  10. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  11. ↑ derStandard.at: Karlheinz Töchterle receives Great Gold Medal of Honor . Article dated September 20, 2017, accessed September 21, 2017.
  12. ^ University of Innsbruck: honored distinguished personalities . Article dated October 19, 2018, accessed October 20, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Töchterle, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian classical philologist and politician, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixlegg , Tyrol , Austria