Matthias Köchl

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Matthias Köchl in 2014

Matthias Köchl (born August 30, 1977 in Klagenfurt ) is a former Austrian politician ( GREEN ) and entrepreneur. Since his retirement from politics in December 2018, Köchl has been organizing a non-profit media project. From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the National Council . From April 2018 to February 2019 he was the honorary state spokesman for the Greens in Carinthia .

Life

From 2000 to 2017, Köchl, son of the painter Alois Köchl , was an entrepreneur in the field of online advertising and electromobility. From 2010 to 2013 he was also managing partner (CEO) of SMI Solarmobil Innovations GmbH and developed a solar vehicle. In 2012 he planned and financed a house for orphans and homeless people in Gambia.

Journalistic activity in the media sector

From 1999 Köchl studied journalism and media studies at the Alpen-Adria University in Klagenfurt. In December 2018, he announced his complete retirement from party politics to return to his roots in media and journalism. For a charitable initiative, he works on the international model for the first Carinthian street newspaper kaz. Kärntner Allgemeine Zeitung. The kaz. is a newspaper that is intended to help people in need help themselves. Social topics and a lot of culture are announced as content. The planned circulation is 10-17,000 copies with a monthly publication from June 2019.

Career as an entrepreneur

Matthias Köchl founded his first company in 2000, an advertising agency for Internet and online marketing.

With various advertising networks such as the banner exchange service austrobanner.com and the advertising marketer WebsiteSponsor.at, Köchl was a factor in the Austrian online advertising market. Austrobanner.com existed from 2001 to 2009 and was later sold. WebSiteSponsor.at paid ATS 1 per banner click to website operators and marketed this advertising space. Back then, customers included Ebay and other big names in the young Internet industry. In 2002, Köchl's agency established the Cash4Surf provider EarnBar.de, which paid users to watch Internet advertising. EarnBar.de was sold in 2010.

In December 2001 the advertising network Activesponsor.de was acquired and expanded into the German market. In January 2003, Köchl founded the webmail provider MPX.at. This provided free webmail addresses and financed itself with advertising. MPX.at ceased operations at the end of 2004 because the new statutory monitoring measures for email addresses were not supported.

In October 2006, Köchl founded the news portal energiewende.com, a website for renewable energy.

Electromobility

Köchl is one of the pioneers of electromobility in Austria. His website Elektromobil.com was a leading platform for electromobility in German-speaking countries in 2006 and 2007. In 2006 he founded EUROSOLAR Carinthia, this association organized the alternative energy star trip from 2006 to 2013 with Köchl's participation, at that time the largest electric vehicle meeting in Central Europe. In 2009, Köchl organized the first take-off of an electric aircraft in Austria. He later served as President of the European Center for Solar Mobility.

In December 2009 he was able to enforce the introduction of "free parking for electric cars" in the Klagenfurt municipal council with an amendment to the parking fee ordinance; this was subsequently adopted by several other Carinthian communities (Villach, Wolfsberg, St.Veit / Glan)

politics

From 1997 to 2007, Köchl was chairman of the city green in the Carinthian state capital Klagenfurt. From 2001 to 2003 he was part of a coalition of PLUS (Platform for Independent Students) and Green & Alternative Students in the chairmanship of the Austrian Students' Union at the University of Klagenfurt. From 2003 to June 2014, Köchl was a Green Councilor in Klagenfurt.

In the national elections in 2006 , 2008 , 2013 and 2017, Köchl was the top candidate for the Greens in Carinthia. In 2013 the Carinthian Greens were able to set up a national council for the first time with Köchl. In 2017, the Greens missed their entry into the National Council.

Matthias Köchl has lived in Krumpendorf on Lake Wörthersee since October 2014 . His appearance in the direct mayor election on March 1, 2015 brought the local Greens a four-fold increase from 1 to 4 mandates and the first time they moved into the municipal board of the small Wörthersee community.

Köchl's area of ​​interest is energy policy, in the Green Parliament Club he worked in the field of self-employed / one-person entrepreneurs. In the National Council, he was a member of the Environment Committee, the Committee for Innovation and Research, the Tourism Committee and the Committee for Economy and Industry.

In 2014 Köchl was at the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva (World Assembly of Parliaments) and gave the speech for Austria ( 130th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, IPU)

Together with Eva Glawischnig, Köchl applied to the National Council for an action for annulment by the Republic of Austria against the competition-distorting feed-in tariff of the British nuclear power plant project Hinkley Point, which was submitted to the European Court of Justice in January 2015 together with Luxembourg. The lawsuit brought by the Republic of Austria is considered a milestone in the fight against nuclear power in Europe.

In the summer of 2015, the municipality of Krumpendorf am Wörthersee and Köchl, as a refugee officer, demonstrated an exemplary approach to dealing with refugees.

From 2013 to 2017, Köchl donated parts of his politician salaries to a social account, from which he supported people in need. As a member of the National Council, he refrained from paying increases and donated these funds for social purposes. This social account was transparently disclosed on his website.

In April 2018 he succeeded Rolf Holub as state spokesman for Green Carinthia. At the beginning of February 2019, he publicly announced that he would no longer run as country spokesman at the party congress in March, but resigned his position prematurely after his arrest in Italy became known on February 18, 2019. Olga Voglauer succeeded him as state spokeswoman in June 2019.

In mid-February 2019 it became known that Köchl had been arrested on February 11 at the Austrian-Italian border crossing while driving from Austria to Tarvisio on suspicion of favoring illegal migration under Italian law. He had an Iraqi man with him in his car without documents when he was stopped for an inspection by Carabinieri and he was nervous. On October 4, 2019, Köchl announced that in his criminal proceedings he had agreed with the Italian judiciary on a conditional fine of EUR 10,000 and that there would therefore be no trial. A few days later, however, it turned out that Köchl had been sentenced to a five-year prison term of eight months. Through an agreement with the court, he was able to achieve a reduction in the sentence, since the minimum sentence under Italian law for promoting illegal migration would otherwise have been one year and a maximum of 5 years. The asylum seeker had testified that he had asked Köchl in a cafe in Villach to take him to Italy to submit an asylum application and had paid nothing for it. According to state spokeswoman Olga Voglauer, Köchl had not been guilty of anything under Austrian law and had also resigned, which closed the case for the Greens.

family

Matthias Köchl is married and has one daughter.

Web links

Commons : Matthias Köchl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

credentials

  1. ↑ Green country spokesman: "Sitting in a circle is no work". Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Matthias Köchl will change sides, set up and oversee a media project. " Retrieved on February 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ As of now, Carinthia also has a street newspaper: Die kaz. . Article dated May 29, 2019, accessed October 30, 2019.
  4. ↑ Two-seater electric trike runs on electricity from the solar roof ". Retrieved on July 27, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Help Buba ". Archived from the original on December 19, 2014 ; retrieved on December 19, 2014 .
  6. ↑ "Facebook". Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ "Carinthia's first social newspaper is coming soon!" Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ "AdWebMedia.net". Archived from the original on March 1, 2001 ; accessed on March 28, 2019 .
  9. ^ "Austrobanner.com". Archived from the original on December 4, 2000 ; accessed on March 28, 2019 .
  10. ↑ WebSiteSponsor.at ". Archived from the original on April 1, 2001 ; accessed on March 28, 2019 .
  11. ↑ "EarnBar.de". Archived from the original on July 13, 2009 ; accessed on March 28, 2019 .
  12. ↑ "AdWebMedia.net". Archived from the original on March 31, 2002 ; accessed on March 28, 2019 .
  13. ↑ "MPX.at". Archived from the original on July 22, 2003 ; accessed on March 28, 2019 .
  14. ↑ "MPX.at ceases operations on December 31, 2004". Archived from the original on February 6, 2005 ; accessed on March 28, 2019 .
  15. ↑ "Energiewende.com". Archived from the original on October 12, 2007 ; accessed on March 28, 2019 .
  16. ↑ "EUROZEM". Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  17. ↑ "Elektromobil.com". Archived from the original on February 7, 2006 ; accessed on March 28, 2019 .
  18. ^ "Carinthia ORF: Electric car meeting around the Wörthersee". Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  19. ↑ "Youtube Electric Motor Glider". Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  20. ↑ "EUROZEM". Archived from the original on September 4, 2013 ; Retrieved September 4, 2013 .
  21. ↑ "mein-klagenfurt.at Parking electric cars in Klagenfurt for free". Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Klagenfurt Green chief Köchl resigned ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung , August 28, 2007
  23. ↑ a b GR members, Matthias Köchl (GRÜ) ( memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), members of the municipal council, state capital Klagenfurt, accessed: October 3, 2013
  24. ^ Carinthian mandates in the National Council , orf.at, September 30, 2013
  25. ^ Election results Krumpendorf 2015 ( memento from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung March 1, 2015
  26. ^ Matthias Köchl: The man with the electric car , Die Presse, September 21, 2008
  27. ↑ National Council: Greens define speaker roles , the standard, October 25, 2013
  28. ↑ Democracy causes peace: A demand for enhancing international communication ( Memento of May 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), 130th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Geneva, 16 - 20th of March 2014
  29. ↑ Parliament correspondence No. 839 of September 26 , 2014 , Greens against state funding for nuclear power
  30. ^ Austria under pressure because of nuclear power lawsuit
  31. ↑ Where refugees are welcome and animate the place , Kurier, August 16, 2015
  32. ↑ Willkommen am Wörthersee , gruene.at, July 28, 2015
  33. ↑ Tourism: Record numbers despite asylum seekers ( Memento from August 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Wirtschaftsblatt, August 25, 2015
  34. ↑ The camp will soon be dismantled ( Memento from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung, November 13, 2015
  35. ^ "Disclosure of social account". Archived from the original on March 28, 2017 ; accessed on March 28, 2017 .
  36. ↑ orf.at: Köchl new state spokesman for the Greens . Article dated April 28, 2018, accessed April 28, 2018.
  37. ↑ dossier Matthias Köchl , meineabgeordneten.at Transparency Database May 5, 2014
  38. ↑ State spokesman Matthias Köchl is no longer running - for family and professional reasons. " Retrieved on February 4, 2019 .
  39. ↑ 11 7 a.m., February 18, 2019: Matthias Köchl: Carinthian Greens chief resigned after brief arrest. February 18, 2019, accessed February 20, 2019 .
  40. ↑ Carinthian Green politician threatens imprisonment in Italy - derStandard.at. February 18, 2019, accessed on October 28, 2019 (Austrian German).
  41. ↑ Trafficking allegation: Green spokesman goes. In: ORF.at. February 18, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 .
  42. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Suspicion of smuggling: Carinthian Greens spokesman Köchl resigns. February 18, 2019, accessed February 20, 2019 .
  43. ↑ Fine on probation: Ex-Greens spokesman brought Iraqis from Austria to Italy. In: Small newspaper. October 4, 2019, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  44. ↑ Chronicle: Matthias Köchl condemned. In: ORF.at. October 8, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 .
  45. ^ Imprisonment for the Carinthian Greens. In: diepresse.at. October 9, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 .
  46. ^ ORF: Conditional imprisonment and fine. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Köchl, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (Greens), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt