Michael Häupl

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Michael Häupl (2017)

Michael Häupl (born September 14, 1949 in Altlengbach , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and was Mayor and Governor of Vienna from November 7, 1994 to May 24, 2018 and President of the Austrian Association of Cities from 1995 to 2018 . From 1993 to 2018 he was regional party leader of the SPÖ Vienna . Currently he is still deputy party chairman of the SPÖ.

With a term of office of 23 years, 6 months and 16 days, Häupl was the longest serving democratically elected mayor in the history of Vienna , surpassed only by Josef Georg Hörl (mayor 1773–1804).

Life

Childhood and youth

As a middle school student , Michael Häupl was a member and spokesman for the striking student association of the Krems junior high school students Rugia Krems . According to his own account, however, at the age of 19 after a “ Damascus experience ” he left the association.

Studies and political beginnings

After completing his Matura at the Bundesrealgymnasium Krems and completing the basic military service as a radio operator in Mautern an der Donau , he studied biology and zoology at the University of Vienna . His dissertation deals with the kinetics of the skull in Gekkonides . From 1975 to 1983 Häupl was a research assistant in the herpetological collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna .

During his studies he got involved with the Association of Socialist Students in Austria (VSStÖ), of which he was federal chairman from 1975 to 1978. Since 1978 he is a member of the Social Democratic Party - District Party Committee of Vienna- Ottakring .

Rise to mayor and loss of an absolute majority

From 1983 to 1988 he was a member of the Vienna City Council and State Parliament , then until 1994 City Council and State Councilor for Environment and Sport. In 1993 he succeeded Hans Mayr as state party chairman of the SPÖ and on November 7, 1994 Helmut Zilk as mayor and governor.

In the state parliament and municipal council elections in Vienna in 1996 , the SPÖ under Häupl lost the absolute majority of seats for the first time in the second republic. Thereupon the party formed a coalition with the ÖVP, which provided the deputy mayor with Bernhard Görg . Previously, both a traffic light coalition and a red-black government with the participation of the Liberal Forum had been discussed, but not seriously considered.

Resurgence in 2001 and 2005

In the 2001 election, Häupl and the SPÖ regained an absolute majority in the local council. Häupl is Deputy Federal Party Chairman of the SPÖ and was a member of the Austria Convention from 2003 to 2005.

In 2005, the SPÖ was able to increase to just under 49 percent in the state and local council elections .

In the state and municipal council elections in 2010 , the SPÖ once again lost its absolute majority and gained 44.34% and 49 seats (out of a total of 100). The new city government was formed by the SPÖ in a coalition with the Vienna Greens .

2013 was his Sager "There is no budget hole. There are only incomes and expenses that are in disparity ” named Unspruch of the Year by the Research Center for Austrian German . He is playing down "the sudden, enormous deficit in the state budget and declaring it as a harmless difference between income and expenditure."

Election 2015

In the state and local council elections in Vienna, only 39.6 percent were in favor of the Viennese SPÖ. The city government was formed by the SPÖ and the third-placed Wiener Grünen. On April 5, 2017, Häupl announced that he would retire as mayor and SPÖ regional party chairman in Vienna after the next election to the National Council .

In October 2017 it was announced that Michael Häupl wanted to hand over his role as SPÖ regional party chairman in Vienna on January 27, 2018 as part of the SPÖ Vienna State Party Congress, the handover of the mayor's office was set for May 24, 2018. His legend “Mei Wien is net deppat!” Was named saying of the year by the Research Center for Austrian German in the same year. After the National Council election, in which his SPÖ won against the federal trend, Häupl "probably spoke from the heart of many Viennese."

Resignation as state party chairman

As announced, on January 27, 2018, Häupl resigned from his position as state party chairman at the state party conference. Häupl's successor was Michael Ludwig .

Private

A daughter was born from Häupl's first marriage. In his second marriage he was married to Helga Häupl-Seitz, from which a son emerged. On May 20, 2011, he married Barbara Hörnlein, who was the medical director of the Otto Wagner Hospital in 2015, was the medical director of the Wilhelminenspital until around June 2016 , and was then director of the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund .

In his younger years, Renate Brauner , who was the city councilor and former vice mayor until 2018, was his partner. The close friendship has persisted to this day, "only a few people can rely on", according to Die Presse in October 2010, "Häupl as blindly as he can rely on his deputy".

Häupl is chairman of the board of trustees of FK Austria Wien . As mayor of Vienna, he was a Vice President of the League Historical Cities ( League of Historical Cities ) , a sub-organization of the International Council on Monuments and Sites of, and President Council of European Municipalities and Regions .

After Rudolf Hundstorfer's death in August 2019, Karl Lacina took over his interim agendas as President of Volkshilfe Wien. Michael Häupl was designated as his successor in August 2020.

Awards

Publications

  • Michael Häupl, Marxism and Ecology. REFURBISHED DOGMA? in: Renate Marschalek, Peter Pelinka (Hrsg.): Red-Green Kick. Essay collection, with a foreword by Kurt Steyrer , Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-224-16510-3 .
  • Michael Häupl, Business for People. Alternatives to neoliberalism in the age of globalization. Löcker Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3854093947 .
  • Helmut Schneider (Ed.): “Others can fill cans cheaper.” Michael Häupl in an interview about politics, science, Vienna and culture. Echomedia, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902900-26-5 .
  • Michael Häupl, Patrick Horvath, Bernhard Müller, Thomas Weninger (eds.): Future City. Economic visions for the urban centers of tomorrow . New Academic Press, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7003-1932-0 .
  • Michael Häupl, Peter Ahorner, Michael Pammesberger : Bring the sparkling wine! The most legendary sayings by Michael Häupl , Ueberreuter, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-8000-7716-8 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Michael Häupl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Michael Häupl  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten of July 10, 2009: The greatest job ever ( Memento of September 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Thomas Prior: Fraternities: "Those were the wilder dogs'". In: The press. February 28, 2008, accessed April 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ The Military Service Careers of Our Politicians. In: DiePresse.com. October 9, 2010, accessed August 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Catalog list Austrian National Library
  5. ^ Anton Zaiser: Who will rule Vienna in the future. In: News. November 24, 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Görg on Häupl: "He can't say no" ( Memento from October 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ The Austrian word of the year 2013 at oedeutsch.at
  8. ↑ derStandard.at: At the end of January, Häupl hands over the chairmanship of the Viennese SPÖ . Article dated August 27, 2017, accessed August 27, 2017.
  9. ↑ orf.at: Häupl hands over party leadership on January 27th . Article dated October 16, 2017, accessed October 17, 2017.
  10. ↑ derStandard.at: Häupl wants to hand over his job as Mayor of Vienna at the end of May . Article from January 10, 2018, accessed on January 10, 2018.
  11. ↑ orf.at: Michael Häupl resigns on May 24th . Article dated February 15, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018.
  12. ^ The Austrian word of the year 2017 at oedeutsch.at
  13. ↑ [1]
  14. ↑ Mayor Häupl's wife becomes head of the WGKK , kurier.at, June 22, 2016, accessed on July 24, 2016.
  15. ↑ Köksal Baltaci: Asklepios-Chairman: "I should be silenced" . In: diepresse.com . July 14, 2015, accessed June 21, 2017.
  16. ↑ Rosemarie Schwaiger: Wiener SPÖ: A terribly nice family. In: Die Presse , print edition, October 10, 2010. Accessed May 10, 2012.
  17. ↑ Ex-Mayor Häupl becomes President of Volkshilfe Wien. In: DerStandard.at . August 25, 2020, accessed August 26, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Michael Häupl becomes the new President of Volkshilfe Wien. August 25, 2020, accessed August 26, 2020 .
  19. ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  20. ↑ MP 2012 poz. 393 - point 7.
  21. ↑ Red Cross Award for Häupl, Konrad and Kogler on the website of the WCC on December 15, 2016, accessed on December 18, 2016.
  22. ↑ If honored: Pröll leaves the future open on ORF from January 16, 2017, accessed on January 16, 2017.
  23. ↑ Press service: Häupl awarded the highest Czech medal . In: Press Service of the City of Vienna . October 29, 2017 ( wien.gv.at [accessed October 29, 2017]).
  24. ↑ Häupl turns 70: honorary citizenship awarded. In: ORF.at . September 13, 2019, accessed September 13, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Helmut Zilk Mayor of Vienna
1994–2018 		Michael Ludwig
personal data
SURNAME Häupl, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament, mayor of Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Altlengbach , Lower Austria