Leopold Maderthaner

Leopold "Leo" Maderthaner (born September 9, 1935 in Hausmening ; † July 28, 2007 in Krems an der Donau ) was an Austrian politician of the ÖVP .

Life

After finishing school at the HTL St. Pölten, Leopold Maderthaner worked for Siemens in Linz from 1955 to 1959 , before starting his own business with Neon Maderthaner in 1959.

From 1972 to 1985 Maderthan was a city councilor in Amstetten .

From 1986 to 1990 he was President of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Commerce and then from 1990 to 2000 President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO). His tenure as WKO president was inextricably linked with the steadily increasing export successes of the Austrian economy over ten years. During his term of office, the expansion of the Economic Development Institute (WIFI) St. Pölten, the establishment of the start-up and technology centers in Austria, the promotion of the promotion of young apprentices, the establishment of the ecological management consultancy and the business assistance for entrepreneurs as well as the accession of Austria to the European Union in 1995 Union , to which he made a significant contribution as a negotiator.

Maderthaner was elected on September 30, 1989 at the 13th General Assembly of the Austrian Economic Association as the new President and thus the successor to Rudolf Sallinger and he was a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the ÖVP until 2000 .

From 1979 to 1989 he was a member of the Federal Council and from March 1, 1989 to June 30, 2001 a member of the National Council . Top politicians from different parties represented in parliament often described Maderthaner as a consensual social partner with a handshake quality, whose cooperation with the political opponent was always characterized by mutual respect.

Maderthaner was an honorary citizen of the city of Chicago . Since 1990 he has been an honorary member of the Catholic student association ÖkaV Rhaeto-Danubia Vienna in the ÖCV .

Monument for Leopold Maderthaner by Robert Kabas in front of the WKÖ in Amstetten

Until his death he was active as honorary president of the Austrian Economic Association , as a board member of the Economic Association of Lower Austria and as an honorary member in the economic parliament of the Lower Austria Economic Chamber and the Austrian Economic Chamber , whereby it was his primary concern to represent the Austrian economy abroad.

Awards

• Commercial Council (1989)
• Golden Commander's Cross of Honor for Services to the State of Lower Austria (1995)
• Large Silver Medal of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (1995)
• Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (1997)
• Large Silver Decoration on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria (2000)
• Bavarian Order of Merit (1999)
• Carinthian regional order in silver
• Commander's Cross of the Province of Burgenland
• Large Federal Cross of Merit with star and shoulder ribbon
• Belgian Order of the Crown
• Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold II.
• North Star Order
• Hungarian Order of Merit
• Grand Cross of the Spanish Order of Civil Merit

Web links

• Austrian Chamber of Commerce (pdf; 2.3 MB)
• Leopold Maderthaner on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Entry on Leopold Maderthaner in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Entry on Leopold Maderthaner in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Obituary in the Wiener Zeitung , July 29, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)