Martin Huber (politician, 1970)

Martin Huber (2013)

Martin Huber (born March 15, 1970 in Amstetten , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ ) and has been a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament since 2008 . From March 22, 2018 until the suspension of his party membership by the federal party chairman on September 21, 2019, he was the FPÖ club chairman in the Lower Austrian state parliament .

Life

Martin Huber lives in Blindenmarkt and is married. After primary school he attended secondary school and then graduated from the Francisco Josephinum in Wieselburg . After graduating from high school in Wieselburg, Huber attended a college for plastics technology at TGM Vienna and from 1990 worked in a technical office. In 1993 he took over the technical management of a company in the compound feed industry, from 2003 he was a project manager in automotive technology.

politics

Huber became regional managing director of the FPÖ Lower Austria in 2004 and has been the managing councilor in Blindenmarkt since 2005. From 2002 he held the position of local party chairman of Blindenmarkt and in 2001 became a member of the Melk district party leadership . From 2003 he was deputy district party chairman of the FPÖ in the Melk district, and from 2004 he was also a member of the state party leadership, the state party executive and the state party presidium. In 2005 he was elected as a member of the federal party leadership. From April 10, 2008, Huber represented the FPÖ in the Lower Austrian state parliament.

On March 1, 2018 it was announced that Martin Huber will succeed Gottfried Waldhäusl , who is moving into the Lower Austrian provincial government as regional councilor , in his previous function as club chairman in the Lower Austrian state parliament . On March 22, 2018, with the constitution of the Landtag of the XIX. Legislative period , Huber took office as FPÖ club chairman.

On September 21, 2019, Huber was suspended from the FPÖ by party leader Norbert Hofer (see criminal proceedings for violating the Prohibition Act ). Huber remained as a non-attached member of the state parliament. A party expulsion, which was initially announced for the first meeting of the federal party leadership after the 2019 National Council election , has not yet taken place (as of January 6, 2020). At the beginning of January 2020, Huber presented his new Plan B list for the municipal council election campaign, which also includes other former mandataries of the Blindenmarkter FPÖ.

Criminal proceedings for violating the Prohibition Act

On April 20, 2014, the 125th birthday of Adolf Hitler , Huber wrote on his Facebook profile at 12:14 a.m.: “Congratulations to those who have their birthday today”. Norbert Hofer suspended him from the FPÖ on September 21, 2019. According to a press release by the FPÖ, research showed that Huber did not express birthday wishes on any other day. In November 2019 it became known that the public prosecutor's office had investigated Huber on the basis of the posting and had submitted an extradition request to the Lower Austrian state parliament. However, he did not have to agree because Huber himself consented to the persecution.

Although he denied the allegation to the last, Huber was found guilty on August 19, 2020 by a jury with five to three votes for a violation of Section 3g of the Prohibition Act 1947 and sentenced to twelve months of conditional imprisonment. The judgment is not final, as its defender filed an appeal and an annulment complaint and the public prosecutor made no explanation.