Kurt Fischer (politician, 1963)

Kurt Fischer (2019)

Kurt Fischer (born July 12, 1963 in Lustenau ) is an Austrian entrepreneur and politician ( ÖVP ). From 2004 to 2014 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament . Since 2010 he has held the office of mayor of his home community Lustenau.

education and profession

Kurt Fischer was born on July 12, 1963 as the son of Kurt and Hedi Fischer in the market town of Lustenau. He attended elementary school in his home community and then from 1973 to 1981 the Dornbirn secondary school , where he graduated in 1981 . Immediately after his school education Kurt Fischer began in 1981, the Teacher Training Program of English literature and philosophy at the University of Innsbruck . In 1986 he graduated as a Magister philosophiae (Mag. Phil.), Whereupon Fischer immediately followed up with a doctorate at the Universities of Innsbruck and Freiburg im Breisgau . This was briefly interrupted in 1987/88 as it the in this time community service ableistete. In January 1989 Kurt Fischer was finally at the University of Innsbruck for Philosophiae Doctor (PhD.) PhD .

After completing his community service, Kurt Fischer began teaching as a high school professor at the Bundesgymnasium Dornbirn in September 1988 while he was still studying for his doctorate , where he worked as a teacher until July 1996. In September 1996 he took up a position as a high school professor at the newly founded high school Lustenau. Fischer held a teaching position until 2000, before joining and taking over his father's company, Kurt Fischer KG , a digital printing company . From 2000 to 2010 he subsequently worked as an entrepreneur. Before he took up the post of mayor of the market town of Lustenau full-time on April 10, 2010, he resigned from the management of his own company.

Political activity

Community level

From 2000 to 2005, Fischer was a member of the municipal council and council for education in Lustenau. From 2005 to 2010 he held the office of Vice Mayor of Lustenau and was a consultant for education and youth. After the municipal council and mayoral elections in Vorarlberg in 2010 , in which the ÖVP was able to recapture the mayor's chair in Lustenau from the FPÖ for the first time in 50 years, Kurt Fischer became mayor of Austria's largest market town. In the direct mayor elections in 2015 , he achieved a two-thirds majority and was thus clearly confirmed in office.

State level

Kurt Fischer ran for the Vorarlberg People's Party in the constituency of Dornbirn in the regional elections in Vorarlberg in 2004 . On October 20, 2004 he succeeded his party colleague Manfred Rein , who was elected to the regional council, and was thus sworn in for the first time as a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament . In the 28th state parliament, he was initially area spokesman for the ÖVP state parliament club for spatial planning, music schools and voluntary work, and in 2007 he became area spokesman for economic issues. In the 29th legislative period of the state parliament, from 2009 to 2014, Fischer was again area spokesman for the ÖVP club for economic issues and chairman of the integration committee in the Vorarlberg state parliament. In February 2014, Fischer announced that he would no longer stand as a candidate for the upcoming state elections in Vorarlberg 2014 and left the state parliament with the inauguration of the new state parliament on October 15, 2014.

Private life

Kurt Fischer has been married since 1990 and has two daughters. He lives with his family in Lustenau.

Web links

Commons : Kurt Fischer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kurt Fischer's biography in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ With dialect pop for a change of power . Article on DiePresse.com from March 16, 2010.
2. ↑ Lustenau mayor clearly confirmed . Article on vorarlberg.ORF.at from March 15, 2015.
3. ↑ Fischer is no longer running for the state parliament . Article on vorarlberg.ORF.at from February 14, 2014.