Lukas Schnitzer

Lukas Schnitzer (2015)

Lukas Schnitzer (born February 2, 1988 in Hartberg ) is an Austrian politician of the ÖVP . He was sworn in as a member of the Styrian state parliament on June 16, 2015 .

education and profession

After primary school, Schnitzer attended the military high school at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt , which he graduated with the Matura in 2006 . In 2005 he was head of the school there and in 2006 deputy chairman of the Lower Austria Schools Union. He then began studying law , which he did not graduate.

During his studies, Schnitzer was a member of parliament for Reinhold Lopatka, member of the National Council .

Political career

The policy was put Schnitzer already in the cradle, because his grandfather Alois pack that it has strongly influenced personally and politically, was from 1969 to 1989 the city council in Hartberg.

Schnitzer made his first political contacts with the Junge ÖVP (JVP) Styria. In December 2007 he became local chairman of the JVP Hartberg. In December 2008 he was elected district chairman of the JVP Hartberg. From November 2009 to November 2012 he was deputy chairman of the JVP Styria. On November 17, 2012 he was elected chairman of the JVP Styria.

Schnitzer has been a member of the council in his home town of Hartberg since 2010.

Schnitzer gained national fame on January 10, 2015, when he was elected by 99 percent of the delegates to the JVP chairman Sebastian Kurz's deputy at the 25th Bundestag of the JVP in Linz .

In 2011 Schnitzer was elected deputy chairman of the ÖVP in the Hartberg district.

In the 2013 National Council election , Schnitzer ran for the promising fourth place on the Styrian state list of the ÖVP. Schnitzer also achieved 2,631 preferential votes, but due to the losses of the ÖVP, Beatrix Karl and Werner Amon moved into the National Council via the state list.

On April 18, 2015, the ÖVP's list of candidates for the 2015 state elections was presented. Schnitzer was ranked sixth on the state list at the request of state party chairman, Governor Hermann Schützenhöfer. He was sworn in on June 16, 2015 as the youngest member of the current ÖVP state parliament club. He was also the first JVP chairman in 30 years to enter the state parliament.

In the state parliament, Schnitzer is a member of the committees for education (education, school, child care, youth, women, family and sport), Europe (European integration and development policy) and the constitution .

By changing from MMag. Barbara Eibinger-Miedl in the Styrian state government was elected as one of his deputy club chairmen in May 2017 at the suggestion of the newly elected club chairman of the People's Party in the Styrian state parliament Karl Lackner Lukas Schnitzer.

Schnitzer, who was JVP Federal Deputy Chairman under Sebastian Kurz, was confirmed in this position under the new Chairman Stefan Schnöll in November 2017.

Others

Schnitzer also made a career in sport. In 2003 he became the state champion for students over 800 meters in Kapfenberg . In addition, there are state championship titles of the students over 800 meters and the youth over 1,000 meters (both 2003) as well as the Lower Austrian state championship title and victory in the federal state cup for youth over 2,000 meters obstacle (both 2004).

Web links

Commons : Lukas Schnitzer (politician)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lukas Schnitzer Landtag Club of the Styrian People's Party
• Lukas Schnitzer at www.meineabektiven.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ My Parliament: Lukas Schnitzer (accessed on July 2, 2015)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} My MPs: Lukas Schnitzer ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 2, 2015) 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} ÖVP Styria: JVP regional chairman Schnitzer sworn in as a member of the state parliament (accessed on July 2, 2015)
4. ↑ Styrian People's Party: Lukas Schnitzer ( memento from July 2, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on July 2, 2015)
5. ^ Grizzly: curriculum vitae of Lukas Schnitzer, member of the state parliament. In: Landtag Club of the Styrian People's Party. Accessed November 6, 2019 (German). 
6. ↑ ÖVP Styria: Eibinger-Miedl welcomes three new VP MPs (accessed on July 2, 2015)
7. ↑ My week of January 13, 2015: JVP regional chairman Lukas Schnitzer elected as federal deputy chairman (accessed on July 2, 2015)
8. ↑ Kleine Zeitung of October 1, 2013: No mandate for Lukas Schnitzer (accessed on July 2, 2015)
9. ↑ ORF Steiermark from April 18, 2015: State election: ÖVP relies on young faces (accessed on July 2, 2015)
10. ↑ Landtag Styria: Committee on Education ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document, 13 KB; accessed July 2, 2015) 
11. ↑ Landtag Styria: Committee for Europe ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document, 89 KB; accessed on July 2, 2015) 
12. ↑ Landtag Styria: Constitutional Committee ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document, 89 KB; accessed on July 2, 2015)