Martin Strutz

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Martin Strutz (born March 20, 1961 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) is an Austrian politician ( FPK ). He was a member of the Carinthian provincial government Haider III and was the 3rd president of the Carinthian state parliament from 2006 to 2009 .

education and profession

Martin Strutz attended elementary school and grammar school in Klagenfurt , where he graduated in 1981. He then studied journalism and communication science with a focus on public relations and political science at the University of Salzburg . In 1987 Strutz received his doctorate .

From 1987 Strutz was club secretary of the Freedom National Council faction in parliament. As a speaker, he mainly worked in the areas of constitution, home affairs and the public service. He also entrusted individual agendas to the then federal party chairman Jörg Haider . After Jörg Haider was elected Governor of Carinthia in 1989, Strutz moved to Carinthia as the governor's personal secretary and has since been part of the so-called Haiders Buberlpartie .

politics

With his professional move to Carinthia, Strutz took over a mandate as a member of the state parliament in 1989. In 1989 he also became the press spokesman for the FPÖ Carinthia. In 1991 he rose as the successor to Jörg Freunschlag to the full-time club chairman of the FPÖ Carinthia. Strutz was first from 1989 to 2004 member of the state parliament of the FPÖ and from 1989 to 1991 chairman of the committee for tourism and trade. From 1991 to 1994 he was chairman of the finance and economic committee and from 1999 to 2004 chairman of the committee for legal, constitutional, ethnic group and immunity matters. From 2001 to 2005 he was regional party leader of the FPÖ in Carinthia.

In 2005 Jörg Haider brought him into the state government in place of the resigned Karl Pfeifenberger . Strutz was sworn in on February 21, 2005 and took over the departments of schools and education, labor market, housing, culture, nature conservation, state planning, spatial and community planning law, state teachers and state employees, animal protection law and mountain rescue. Strutz joined the BZÖ in the spring of 2005, like almost all of the Carinthian FPÖ mandataries, and from 2005 he was the first  deputy governor . On November 9, 2006, Strutz resigned from the state government and moved back to the state parliament. On December 13, 2006 he was elected third President of the Carinthian Parliament.

Martin Strutz was appointed General Secretary of the BZÖ from 2008 to 2009 together with Stefan Petzner , Petzner held this position until 2010 with a brief interruption.

Strutz has numerous functions in the public and private sector. He was or is a member of the supervisory board of the Kärntner Landes- und Hypothekenbank Holding , a member of the Kärntner Krankenanstaltenfonds , a board member of the Sir Karl Popper Foundation , the supervisory board of the hospital operating company and the board of the Kärntner Bildungswerk and the Freedom Academy .

Strutz succeeded Gernot Darmann as a member of the National Council on November 23, 2010 and was a member of the National Council until October 28, 2013.

On December 16, 2009, the Carinthian BZÖ split off from the Federal BZÖ and, as the FPK, is striving for close cooperation with the FPÖ. Both parties remained independent with their own bodies until the FPK rejoined the FPÖ.

After leaving the National Council, he became the office manager of the Mayor of Klagenfurt, Christian Scheider , and after his election, Strutz worked in the Klagenfurt municipal administration until October 2015. According to his own statements, he has been an independent PR consultant since 2011.

Offices (selection)

Private

Martin Strutz is divorced.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Strutz and Petzner: Your Career ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), article in the Kleine Zeitung from August 12, 2008
  2. ^ ORF Carinthia regional government: Uwe Scheuch replaces Martin Strutz, November 6, 2006
  3. ↑ a b Dr. Martin Strutz on parlament.gv.at from February 6, 2014. Member of the BZÖ club March 31, 2009 - December 27, 2009, without club membership until November 22, 2010, in the FPÖ club until October 28, 2013.
  4. ^ Klagenfurt: Martin Strutz's contract not extended . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on April 11, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Dr. Martin Strutz, biography. Retrieved April 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Strutz, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPK), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee