Mathias Reichhold

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Mathias Reichhold (born July 5, 1957 in Klagenfurt , Carinthia ) is an Austrian politician of the FPÖ and former Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology from February 2002 to February 2003.

Life

Mathias Reichhold attended the Federal College for Agricultural Engineering in Wieselburg from 1971 to 1976 . The federal seminar for agricultural education followed with the teaching examination . From 1981 to 1985 he taught agriculture at the school office and administrative Sankt Georgen am Längsee , in their community, he mainly since 1985 as a sideline a 80 hectares large organic farm leads. He bears the status of engineer.

Mathias Reichhold's rural origins also brought him to politics. From 1979 to 1981 he was rural youth officer at the Chamber of Agriculture for Carinthia. During his function as a member of the municipal council of St. Georgen am Längsee from 1985 to 1990, he followed the call to Vienna in 1988 as general secretary of the FPÖ. He resigned from this position in 1990 when he moved to the National Council for the FPÖ .

In 1992, Reichhold on the initiative was Haider Governor -Stellvertreter of Carinthia. He held this office until 1994 when Jörg Haider asked him to clear the seat for Karl-Heinz Grasser . He then went back to the National Council until 1998 and as Vice President of the Carinthian Chamber of Agriculture, then returned in 1998 - after the resignation of Karl-Heinz Grasser - as Deputy Governor in the provincial government. In between he was also a member of the European Parliament in 1995 . During his time as Deputy Governor (1998–2001) he was a. a. State sports advisor.

In 2001 he again left the Carinthian state government at his own request to devote himself to his agricultural business. However, he soon returned when he succeeded Monika Forstinger for twelve months as Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology and in the same year after Susanne Riess-Passer's resignation, he even became Federal Party Chairman of the FPÖ for a short time. Reichhold said openly at the special party conference of the FPÖ: "I'm here because Jörg Haider has decided not to run for party chairman." After 40 days he was replaced by Herbert Haupt , Mathias Reichhold retired in spring 2003 for health reasons Organic farm back. Together with Jörg Haider, he was honored by the Research Center for Austrian German for “resigning from his resignation” for his saying of the year “I'm already gone! I'm back! ”, Which, in the opinion of the research center, is“ ironic in two ways ”and also reminds of puppet theater.

Shortly afterwards he became a manager at Magna Steyr , Frank Stronach's automotive supplier group . From 1 July 2006 Mathias Reichhold has been approved by the Supervisory Board of ASFINAG appointed as the third member of the board. The entire board of directors gave up this office at the end of 2007. The amount of the special severance payments of € 280,000 from taxpayers' money for his short-term work as Asfinag board member led to public criticism. In 2011, a payment from Telekom Austria also caused criticism, see Telekom affair . In 2010 he was on the supervisory board of Klagenfurt Stadtwerke and the subsequently bankrupt football club Austria Klagenfurt , as well as adviser to the mayor of Klagenfurt, Christian Scheider .

Private

Mathias Reichhold is married and has two sons.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://ktnlandjugend.at/ueber-uns/geschichte-der-landjugend Rural Youth Carinthia - History of Rural Youth
  2. ^ The Austrian word of the year 2002 at oedeutsch.at
  3. ^ Die Presse : On the road to nowhere , February 19, 2007
  4. ↑ a b orf.at clearance and fat bonus
  5. ↑ http://derstandard.at/1314652654803/Portraet-Mathias-Reichhold-der-Hendlbauer-der-Telekom-Affaere Mathias Reichhold, the chicken maker of the Telekom affair
personal data
SURNAME Reichhold, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt