Martin Graf

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Martin Graf (2004)

Martin Graf (born May 11, 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer and politician ( FPÖ ). From 1994 to 2002 and from 2006 to 2013 he represented his party as a member of the National Council . From October 28, 2008 to October 29, 2013 he was the third President of the National Council. Graf also held several high-ranking positions in Austrian companies and works as a publicist. Since November 2017 he has been a member of the National Council again.

Life

education

Graf attended elementary school in the Vienna district of Donaustadt from 1966 to 1970 and then from 1970 to 1975 the grammar school in the Leopoldstadt district and until 1979 the federal upper level grammar school in Krems . From 1979 to 1980 he did basic military service as a paramedic in the Austrian Armed Forces . Graf completed his law studies at the University of Vienna in 1987 with the degree Mag. Iur. and then in 1994 with the degree Dr. iur. completed.

Fraternity members

Graf is a member of the Academic Burschenschaft Olympia , which is classified as right-wing extremist by the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW). In return, Graf describes the DÖW as “an organization that is very left-wing”, for which “every position that is not left is already right-wing extremist”. Today he is the Old Lord of Olympia.

In 2002 Graf was one of the founders of the fraternity initiative SOS Fundamental Rights and Democracy.

Graf was portrayed in 2013 by the fraternity member Odin Wiesinger in front of the colors of the German flag. Graf "is proud" that Wiesinger "is his friend."

Non-political professional activities

Graf held the following offices and posts during his career:

  • From January 1987 to December 1987 legal practice at the BG for criminal matters Vienna, BG Floridsdorf, LG for ZRS Vienna, HG Vienna
  • From January 1988 to April 1992 employment at Bank Austria
  • January 1991 to November 1994 member of the Appeals Senate of the City of Vienna
  • March 1992 to March 2003 trainee lawyer
  • From November 1999 chairman of the Mariazeller Technology Talks
  • December 2000 to April 2006 member of the board of the pension insurance company
  • January 2002 to December 2003 counsel at Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG
  • May 2003 to October 2006 sole managing director of the then ARC business service GmbH
  • June 2004 to December 2004 member of the supervisory board at via donau-Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH for telematics and Danube shipping
  • January 2005 to April 2006 deputy Chairman of the supervisory board of via donau Österreichische Wasserstraßen Gesellschaft mbH
  • July 2006 to October 2006 member of the management of Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC
  • Graf has been the 1st president of the FC Hellas Kagran football club since spring 2007
  • From October 2007 managing partner of GM Consulting KG

Political activity

Martin Graf's political career began in 1981 when he became a member of the Ring of Freedom Students (RFS). Six years later he joined the FPÖ, in 1990 he became a member of the district party leadership Vienna-Donaustadt. A year later he became part of the Vienna regional leadership, and in 1994 he got a seat in the federal party leadership. Graf has been a member of the Vienna State Party Board since 2003. From 1991 to 1994 he was the deputy head of the district in Vienna- Donaustadt .

From 1994 to 2002 he was a member of the FPÖ to the National Council, and since 2006 he has held a seat again. In 2008 he ran for the Freedom Party (FPÖ) on the Vienna state party list in third place.

In an interview with Armin Wolf on the ORF broadcast Zeit im Bild 2 on November 8, 2006, he confessed to the "German people and culture community". He justified this with the fact that after the Second World War the maternal family was expelled from the Sudeten area , which was then populated by German-speaking countries .

Graf is the area spokesman for research, science and education in the FPÖ. He is also a member of the Incompatibility Committee and the Immunity Committee. He was chairman of the committee of inquiry FMA , BAWAG , Hypo Alpe-Adria and other financial service providers and the Science Committee.

On September 30, 2008, he was proposed by the Federal Party Executive of the FPÖ for the office of the third President of the National Council.

Despite severe criticism, he was elected on October 28, 2008 with 109 out of 156 valid votes , 27 votes for the opponent Alexander Van der Bellen , who was nominated by the Greens , and another 20 for other people.

Graf publishes various political comments on the website Unzensuriert.at , which is largely designed by Graf's office employees.

On June 27, 2013 Graf announced that he would no longer run in the 2013 National Council election and would withdraw from politics. He justified this with the fact that he wanted to protect the party and family from planned “ dirty campaigning ” by the SPÖ in the election campaign against him.

Private

Martin Graf is married and has two daughters and a son.

Discourses and allegations

Relationship to right-wing extremism

On November 26, 1987, Graf was a member of the RFS at a performance by the German neo-Nazi Reinhold Oberlercher at the University of Vienna. Regarding the current state borders of Germany, he said that these “were drawn at random; the German nationality must be able to develop freely in Europe. "

Between 2003 and 2007 Graf was chairman of the ethnic- oriented Sudeten German association Witikobund , in which the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution repeatedly noted "a concentration of indications for right-wing extremist efforts".

On April 15, 2009, Graf engaged Walter Marinovic, who was classified by the DÖW as “on the right edge of right-wing extremism”, as a speaker for a book presentation by Andreas Mölzer in parliament.

Staff appointments in the ARC

In connection with his work in the ARC, Graf was accused of arbitrarily assigning posts to fraternity members close to him.

National Council presidency candidacy

In the autumn of 2008, Graf's candidacy for the office of the third President of the National Council met with fierce criticism. There were calls from many quarters to the members of the National Council not to vote for Graf: Mauthausen Committee Austria , DÖW, Israelitische Kultusgemeinde , Verein Gedenkdienst , ÖH and GPA-djp .

On October 16, Graf gave a press conference in which he declared that he was "based on the values ​​of the revolution of 1848" and that "neither his ideology nor his national beliefs could disqualify him for offices in Austria."

Staff appointments as third President of the National Council

Graf was repeatedly criticized for having employed members of striking fraternities, some of which had contacts with right-wing extremist organizations or companies.

The office manager Walter Asperl is a member of the Olympia fraternity .

Graf's IT officer Sebastian Ploner was a member of the Olympia fraternity and co-organizer of the right-wing extremist summer camp Jugendbund Sturmadler. Ploner to the neo-Nazi Shipping turmoil right-wing books and clothing have ordered. T-shirts with National Socialist symbols such as the imperial eagle and a cipher for the Hitler salute are said to have been among the items ordered . Ploner is said to have given the National Socialist name for Austria, " Ostmark ", as the delivery address . In 2008 and 2009, according to reports from Standard, Graf's former employees were involved in violent attacks by neo-Nazis on a demonstration against Graf's election and an event organized by the Socialist Youth.

Marcus Vetter and right-wing extremist Gottfried Küssel took part in a parade at the grave of the German Air Force fighter pilot Walter Nowotny . Vetter is also said to have ordered right-wing articles from Aufruhr -Shipment. Hubert Keyl, Graf's driver and adviser in committees, was a member of the Silesia fraternity until a brawl in a brothel at a fraternity party on March 12, 2010. Keyl had previously been a member of the beating Albia fraternity, from which he had also been expelled. On May 27, 2009 the departure of Ploner and Vetter from the Grafs office was announced. In 2011, another employee of Graf resigned himself after he had been expelled from the party for attempting to recruit skinheads for the FPÖ, according to Gerhard Kurzmann , Styrian state party leader of the FPÖ.

FC Hellas Kagran

Graf was accused of having excluded players for political reasons in his role as president of the football club FC Hellas Kagran . On the board of the association, Graf had mainly appointed people close to the FPÖ, which his deputy office manager, who is also chairman of the association, justified with the fact that there are other associations “that are entirely red or black”. The granting of the buffet operator rights to one of his employees in the office of the third President of the National Council also met with criticism.

Waiver of immunity

In February 2009, the Vienna Public Prosecutor submitted an application to the National Council for the waiver of immunity, as investigations had been initiated against Graf on suspicion of fraudulent Krida and infidelity in connection with his work at the ARC. On March 12, 2009 Graf's immunity was lifted by the National Council with the votes of the Greens, SPÖ and ÖVP. In August 2014 the investigation was closed.

Ariel Muzicant

After Ariel Muzicant had accused the FPÖ General Secretary Herbert Kickl in May 2009 of engaging in “agitation” that reminded him of Joseph Goebbels , Count Muzicant indirectly referred to the FPÖ party newspaper Neue Freie Zeitung as “the foster father of anti-fascist left-wing terrorism” and threw him also propose to endanger democracy and freedom of expression. This provoked protests from the SPÖ , ÖVP and the Greens . Among other things, Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann (SPÖ) and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger (ÖVP) called for Graf's resignation as the third President of the National Council. Graf rejected the demands for resignation and invited to a "reconciliation dialogue" and a personal conversation with Muzicant. He made several demands, including that Graf should resign from the Olympia fraternity. In this case, Muzicant would stop operating the website www.kellernazisinderfpoe.at . Finally, Muzicant declared that he did not want to accept the invitation, whereupon Graf accused him of “refusing to talk”.

Gertrud Meschar Private Foundation

In May 2012, the case of the 90-year-old Viennese Gertrud Meschar became known, who Graf had accused of acting to her disadvantage as a director of her private foundation. Graf rejected all allegations; the FPÖ saw the allegations as incorrectly presented.

Subsequently, Graf resigned from the board of directors of the private foundation. He rejected the demand put forward by the other parliamentary parties for a resignation as the third President of the National Council. In September 2012, the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office started an investigation, which was discontinued in August 2014. The resolution necessary for the infidelity could not be ascertained, and also a deception necessary for fraud could not be proven.

Awards

Publications

  • Bankruptcies, fraud and BAWAG. Relentlessly uncovered - the revelations of the banking committee of inquiry (= Currently - Edition. Volume 11). W3-Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-900052-13-3
  • (Ed.): 150 years of fraternities in Austria. Yesterday Today Tomorrow. Ares-Verlag, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902475-82-4
  • with Anneliese Kitzmüller (Ed.): The reconstruction work of the old Austrians in the Second Republic. Uncensored / Association for the Promotion of Media Diversity, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502849-1-1

Web links

Commons : Martin Graf (politician)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e website of Martin Graf: Presentation ( Memento from June 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Heribert Schiedel & Martin Tröger: On the German national corporation system in Austria . Website of the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (PDF; 164 kB)
  3. ↑ Martin Graf in the chat: "Scale lengths are timeless" . In: The press . October 29, 2008
  4. ↑ Freedom of the press: Graf: Platform “SOS Fundamental Rights and Democracy” . May 2, 2002
  5. ↑ FP fraternity students no longer want to be considered neo-fascists . In: The Standard . May 2, 2002
  6. ↑ Der Staatskünstler, Profile No. 21, May 19, 2019, pp. 20 ff.
  7. ↑ Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology: Query response GZ. BMVIT-12.500 / 0006-I / PR3 / 20 (PDF; 38 kB)
  8. ↑ FC Hellas Kagran: Data and History ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fchellaskagran.at
  9. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior : National Council election 2008, applicants for state party lists and regional party lists: Vienna (PDF; 109 kB)
  10. ↑ Harald Walser : Why Martin Graf is not eligible! October 21, 2008
  11. ↑ Regina Pöll: A constant Graf hike . In: The press . 4th June 2012
  12. ↑ Martin Graf's website: Parliament ( Memento from April 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ a b Freedom Parliamentary Club - FPÖ : Press release - NAbg Dr. Martin Graf on his candidacy for the office of 3rd President of the Austrian National Council . October 16, 2008
  14. ↑ List of articles on Unzensuriert.at ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / unzensuriert.at
  15. ^ Exchange of blows between Graf and Prammer , article on ORF .at from May 30, 2013
  16. ↑ Graf is no longer running for the FPÖ , on orf.at, accessed on June 27, 2013
  17. ↑ Christa Zöchling: Graf was hall protection for German neo-Nazi . In: profile . October 4, 2008
  18. ↑ Fuck off, please . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1997, pp. 54-55 ( online ).
  19. ↑ Michaela Witte: Alienation - Speechlessness - Reconciliation? Books on Demand, 2002, pp. 360 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  20. ↑ Wolfgang Fischer: Heimat-Politiker ?: Self-image and political action of expellees as members of the German Bundestag 1949-1974 . Droste, 2010, p. 479 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  21. ^ Maria Fekter : Parliamentary response to questions regarding the "right-wing extremist Witikobund". (PDF) Federal Ministry of the Interior, April 13, 2011, accessed on March 6, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Assessment of the "Witikobund" and the "Witikobrief" by the federal government. (PDF) German Bundestag , December 13, 2001, accessed on March 6, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Assessment of the "Witikobund" by the federal government. (PDF) German Bundestag, November 3, 2008, accessed on March 7, 2017 .
  24. ^ Right-wing extremist, historical revisionist and anti-Semitic connections of the Federation of Expellees and its member associations and youth organizations. (PDF) German Bundestag, November 3, 2008, p. 9 , accessed on March 7, 2017 .
  25. ↑ Peter Mayr: Greens call for a ban on controversial speakers . In: The Standard . April 14, 2009
  26. ^ "Old man" has a blue career . In: The press . October 1, 2010
  27. ^ Mauthausen Committee Austria : No election of the “Olympia” fraternity member Graf as third President of the National Council . October 10, 2008
  28. ^ A b c d Mauthausen Committee Austria: Open letter to the members of the SPÖ, ÖVP, Greens . October 24, 2008
  29. ^ ÖH : Federal representation resolution against Graf as 3rd President of the National Council . October 27, 2008
  30. ^ ÖGB : GPA-djp youth: Martin Graf is not allowed to become the third President of the National Council . October 27, 2008
  31. ^ A b "Nazidreck": Graf wants to keep employees . In: The press . January 7, 2012
  32. ↑ Points of contact with right-wing extremists . In: ORF . June 23, 2012
  33. ↑ a b c d Greens attack Martin Graf's team . In: The Standard . December 29, 2008
  34. ↑ see counter-notification in the profile , No. 16, April 10, 2009, p. 30
  35. ↑ News from the far right: Boys in the “summer camp” (“Olympia”) . In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance . July 2005
  36. ^ Relevant post to Ploner in "Ostmark": Graf employees ordered from Nazi shop . In: profile . January 3, 2011
  37. ↑ a b National Council: "Free us from this Nazi filth!" In: Die Presse . January 21, 2009
  38. ↑ "I'm unhappy about the debate": Barbara Prammer on the Martin Graf case . In: profile . January 19, 2009
  39. ↑ Conflicts between left and right on parliamentary ramp . In: The Standard . October 29, 2008
  40. ↑ Michael Möseneder: Graf-Adlatus at right rampage . In: The Standard . June 14, 2009
  41. ↑ Graf's employees leave parliament . In: The Standard . May 27, 2009
  42. ^ A b Emil Bobi: Martin Graf's secretary was excluded from his fraternity . In: profile . September 18, 2010
  43. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 9, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.watv.at
  44. ↑ Graf employees leave parliament . In: ORF . May 27, 2009
  45. ↑ Controversial Graf employee has resigned . In: The Standard . December 9, 2011
  46. ↑ a b Wolfgang Zaunbauer: Who fouls whom at FC Hellas Kagran? In: Wiener Zeitung . January 22, 2009
  47. ^ Public prosecutor requests Graf's extradition . In: ORF . February 11, 2009
  48. ^ Third President Graf delivered . In: The Standard . March 12, 2009
  49. ↑ Investigations against Martin Graf posted on kurier.at from August 8, 2014, accessed on August 20, 2014
  50. ↑ "Foster father of anti-fascist left-wing terrorism" . In: The Standard . May 27, 2009 (with facsimile ; PDF; 164 kB)
  51. ↑ Florian Klenk : How Martin Graf confuses politics with criminal law ( memento of the original from September 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.florianklenk.com 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. . In: Florian Klenks explorations. June 3, 2009 (with a supplementary comment by Gerhard Oberschlick )
  52. ↑ Conrad Seidl & Michael Völker: Faymann and Spindelegger demand Graf's resignation - he wants to stay . In: The Standard . May 27, 2009
  53. ^ Muzicant: Conditions for meeting with Graf . In: ORF . June 3, 2009
  54. ↑ Muzicant ready for "Peace Summit": IKG President makes demands on Graf ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.profil.at archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: profile . June 3, 2009
  55. ^ Muzicant: No meeting with Martin Graf . In: The press . August 27, 2009
  56. ↑ 90-year-old accuses Martin Graf of deception. In: The press . May 23, 2012, accessed April 27, 2013 .
  57. ↑ Graf under fire: Foundation sum "unusually low". In: The press . May 23, 2012, accessed April 27, 2013 .
  58. ↑ Martin Graf leaves the Foundation Board after allegations. In: The press . June 4, 2012, accessed April 27, 2013 .
  59. ↑ Die Presse : Foundation Causa Foundation Causa: Public Prosecutor's Office investigates Graf , September 4, 2012
  60. ^ Proceedings against Martin Graf in the foundation case discontinued on orf.at, accessed on August 20, 2014
  61. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  62. ^ Graf's biography on Parliament's website
personal data
SURNAME Graf, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and politician (FPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna