Max Lercher

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Maximilian "Max" Lercher (born September 24, 1986 in St. Peter am Kammersberg , Styria ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). From December 2017 to September 2018 he was Federal Managing Director of the SPÖ. Lercher has been a member of the National Council (SPÖ) since October 2019.

He was a member of the Styrian state parliament from 2010 to 2018 and has been the coordinator of the party reform of the SPÖ Styria since 2012. From 2014 to 2017 he was regional manager of the SPÖ Styria.

education and profession

After attending primary and secondary school in St. Peter am Kammersberg (Murau district, Styria), Max Lercher moved to BORG Murau in 2002, where he graduated from school in summer 2005. During his school days, Lercher regularly worked as a construction site assistant in the summer months. After doing community service with the volunteer fire department in his hometown, he began studying political science at the University of Vienna in 2006. In 2012 he graduated with a bachelor's degree .

From March 2014 to May 2019 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Spectro non-profit society for scientific research . From September 2018 he was a member of the supervisory board of Leykam Medien AG in Graz and became its managing director at the end of January 2019. Since April 2019 he has also been the managing director of Leykam Events & Entwicklungs GmbH in Vienna. He is also the managing director of the Alfred Schachner Memorial Fund .

Political career

Lercher began his political work in 2005 in the Socialist Youth (SJ) Styria, of which he was state chairman from 2008 to 2013. After the Styrian state election in 2010 , he entered the state parliament via the SPÖ state list. With the election slogan "I like MAX LERCHER", he was able to win more than 1500 preferential votes as a youth candidate for the Social Democrats and on November 9, 2010 he became the youngest member of the Styrian state parliament. As SPÖ youth spokesman in the state parliament, he was involved in the negotiation of the new youth protection law, the introduction of the TOP TICKET for Styrian schoolchildren and apprentices and the introduction of a youth impact assessment for new state laws.

When the controversial begging ban was introduced by the Styrian reform partnership in 2011, he was the only member of the government coalition to vote against this ban. At the SPÖ state party conference in March 2012, his application for the nationwide abolition of the "small game of chance" was accepted, but the implementation failed both nationwide and in Styria.

At the end of 2012, Lercher was unanimously elected by the party executive of the SPÖ Styria to coordinate the large-scale reform of the state party. In this role he was responsible for opening up and reorganizing the Styrian SPÖ. Since 2014 he has been regional party chairman of the SPÖ Obersteiermark-West.

On December 21, 2017, he was elected to succeed Christoph Matznetter as Federal Managing Director of the SPÖ. Oliver Wieser succeeded him as regional manager of the SPÖ Styria . Wolfgang Moitzi succeeded him as a member of the state parliament in September 2018 . With the change of party chairmanship from Christian Kern to Pamela Rendi-Wagner , Lercher was replaced by Thomas Drozda as federal manager of the SPÖ on September 25, 2018 .

An article in the tabloid Austria dated October 18, 2019 caused disagreements within the SPÖ. It was stated that Lercher had received a consulting contract of 20,000 euros per month after he left the federal executive and switched to Leykam Medien AG . The leaked information came from an SPÖ board meeting. Andreas Kollross spoke of a "foul on Max Lercher from Löwelstrasse ". According to Lercher, there is a service contract between the SPÖ and Leykam Medien AG , and as managing director he receives a salary of 6,000 euros. He announced lawsuit against the reporting from Austria .

In the National Council election in Austria in 2019 , he ran as the SPÖ top candidate in the Upper Styria regional constituency , won a mandate and entered the National Council as a member of the National Council on October 23, 2019 .

Private

Lercher is married and has a sister. His father Maximilian is a council member for the SPÖ in St. Peter am Kammersberg.

Web links

Commons : Max Lercher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SPÖ region Upper Styria West. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 12, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.obersteiermarkwest.spoe.at
  2. ↑ Drozda becomes the new SPÖ federal manager. In: orf.at. September 25, 2018, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  3. ^ SPÖ Styria party reform. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 12, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stmk.spoe.at
  4. ↑ a b Marktgemeinde St. Peter am Kammersberg (Ed.): From St. Peter a. Kbg via Graz to Vienna . No. 1 , April 2018, p. 13 ( online [PDF; accessed October 26, 2019]).
  5. ↑ a b c d It went stupid for Max Lercher. In: mein district.at . September 30, 2018, accessed on October 22, 2019 (Styria, Murtal region ).
  6. ^ Marie-Theres Egyed, Conrad Seidl : The mysterious contract of an unpopular party critic . In: The Standard . October 22, 2019, p. 7 ( online [accessed October 22, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Commercial register . In: Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung . No.  91 , May 9, 2014, p. 39 , Sp. 3 ( Commercial Register No .: 335783z [accessed on October 22, 2019]).
  8. ↑ orf.at: Max Lercher becomes Leykam boss . Article dated February 1, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019.
  9. ↑ Commercial register . In: Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung . No.  52 , March 14, 2019, p. 41 , col. 3 ( Commercial Register No. 059529v [accessed on October 22, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Leykam Events & Development GmbH. In: firmenmonitor.at . April 16, 2019, accessed on October 22, 2019 ( Commercial Register No. 510098w).
  11. ↑ Online association register query. Federal Ministry of the Interior , accessed on October 22, 2019 (ZVR number 985261879).
  12. ↑ Less rigid party, more lively movement. In: Journal Graz. April 2019, pp. 8, 9 , accessed on October 26, 2019 .
  13. ^ Herwig G. Höller: Zitterpartie for the free mandate . In: Falter . No. 8 , February 23, 2011, p. 39 ( online [accessed October 22, 2019]).
  14. ↑ Gerlinde Pölsler: Our gold donkey . In: Falter . No. 7 , February 12, 2014, p. 44, 45 ( Paywall [accessed October 23, 2019]).
  15. ↑ orf.at: SPÖ elects Lercher as federal manager . Article dated December 21, 2017, accessed December 23, 2017.
  16. ↑ orf.at: Oliver Wieser new SPÖ regional manager . Article dated December 22, 2017, accessed October 23, 2019.
  17. ^ Social welfare associations: Schützenhöfer for reform talks . Article dated September 18, 2018, accessed October 23, 2019.
  18. ↑ orf.at: SPÖ: Wolfgang Moitzi receives state parliament mandate . Article dated August 28, 2018, accessed October 23, 2019.
  19. ↑ Rendi-Wagner is rebuilding: Schieder and Lercher have to go. In: kleinezeitung.at. September 26, 2018, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  20. ↑ 20,000 euro contract for party rebel. In: oe24.at . October 18, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Eva Konzett, Josef Redl: The attack from within your own ranks . In: Falter . No. 43 , October 23, 2019, p. 15 ( Paywall [accessed October 23, 2019]).
  22. ^ Theo Anders, Michael Völker: Cabal and friendship . In: The Standard . October 22, 2019, p. 7 ( online [accessed October 23, 2019]).
  23. ↑ orf.at: Max Lercher promises "edgy" politics . Article dated May 30, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019.
  24. ↑ Maximilian Lecher, biography. In: parlament.gv.at . October 21, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  25. ↑ What is the SPÖ doing wrong, Mr. Lercher? In: Kronen Zeitung . October 26, 2019, p.  30 ( online [accessed October 26, 2019] Vorarlberg edition).
  26. ↑ Municipal Council. In: st-peter-kammersberg.gv.at. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lercher, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lercher, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Murau , Styria