Michael Ludwig (politician, 1961)

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Michael Ludwig, 2018

Michael Ludwig (born April 3, 1961 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and has been the mayor and governor of Vienna since May 24, 2018 . He has been President of the Austrian Association of Cities since 2018 .

From 2007-2018 he was the leading Vienna City Councilor for Housing, Housing and Urban Renewal, and between March 2009 and October 2010 he was the second Vice Mayor and Deputy Governor of Vienna.

Life

After completing his primary school years, Michael Ludwig attended the lower level of a general high school in Vienna from 1971. He then attended the commercial academy from 1975 to 1980 and graduated from it with the Matura . After military service 1981-1982 he graduated in political science and history at the University of Vienna and in 1992 with a dissertation on the East German state party SED Dr. phil. PhD. 1984–1986 he was course and project leader in adult education, 1986–1991 educational assistant at a Viennese adult education center. In 1991 he became regional office manager of the Dr. Karl Renner Institute Vienna and education secretary of the SPÖ Vienna. From 1995 he was chairman of the Association of Viennese Adult Education and Vice President of the Austrian Adult Education Centers, and since 2008 he has been honorary chairman of the supervisory board of Wiener Volkshochschulen GmbH. Ludwig is also the chairman of the Bruno Kreisky Archive.

Michael Ludwig grew up in a community building in Jedlersdorf (in the 21st district of Floridsdorf ), which, as he himself says, “shaped” him. He names Bruno Kreisky as a political role model. His motto in life: "Talking brings people together."

In August 2018 he married his longtime partner Irmtraud Rossgatterer.

Political career

Michael Ludwig began his career in local politics in Vienna from 1994–1995 as a district councilor in Floridsdorf . 1996-1999 he worked as a representative of Vienna Member of the Austrian Federal Council , and from 1999 he became a deputy in the Vienna legislature and municipal council, in the transformation of the Vienna city government , he was appointed official leading Councilor for Housing, Housing Construction and Urban Renewal on January 22 of 2007. He succeeded Werner Faymann.

After the resignation of Grete Laska , Ludwig became the second Vice Mayor of the City of Vienna and Deputy Governor on March 26, 2009. After the municipal council election in 2010 on October 10, 2010, Maria Vassilakou of the Greens took over these functions .

In 2010, Ludwig took over the chairmanship of the SPÖ Floridsdorf from Kurt Eder . On May 28, 2011, he was elected one of five deputy chairmen at the SPÖ Vienna state party conference . At the extraordinary state party conference of the SPÖ Vienna on January 27, 2018 , he was elected to succeed Michael Häupl as chairman of the SPÖ Vienna with 57 percent of the delegate votes in a vote against Andreas Schieder .

Alongside Andreas Schieder, he was one of the potential successors to Michael Häupl as Mayor of Vienna. Ludwig is said to have had support in particular from representatives of the Viennese SPÖ in the large districts of Floridsdorf and Donaustadt . In the run-up to the National Council election in Austria in 2017 , Ludwig spoke out against a possible red-blue coalition. The content overlaps are too small.

On May 24, 2018, he took over the office of Mayor of Vienna as successor to Häupl and was sworn in by the Federal President as Governor of Vienna on May 29, 2018 , and thus heads the state government and city senate Ludwig . He has been state party chairman of the SPÖ Vienna since January 27, 2018 . On June 7, 2018, he was elected President of the Austrian Association of Cities to succeed Michael Häupl .

Political work

During Ludwig's term of office as the Vienna City Councilor for Housing, several measures were taken that aim to strengthen the community in the residential area. He initiated the service facilities "wohnpartner" and "wohnpartner on the way "or" Ordnungsberater ". He was also responsible for the implementation of a modern Viennese caretaker model. Since his inauguration, he has dedicated himself to protecting Viennese municipal housing from privatization.

In his first term of office, the new Vienna Redevelopment Ordinance fell in 2009, in the second the new Vienna Building Code 2014, u. a. with a relaxation of the parking space requirement, relief for balconies and elevators as well as for loft extensions. Ludwig is the initiator of the Vienna SMART housing program (apartments with particularly low-cost equity contributions and rents) as well as the Vienna housing initiative (a model for additional low-cost new construction). He also calls for a new nationwide tenancy law including regulations for more transparency.

In 2012, the Italian book authors Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti published a house builder farce in five parts in the Augustin newspaper, partly based on a real case, in which Michael Ludwig is depicted under the name Ludwig van Beton .

Web links

Commons : Michael Ludwig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Ludwig: The Marxist-Leninist concept of the "New Type Party" using the example of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . 1992 ( univie.ac.at [accessed July 31, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Martin Stuhlpfarrer: "Michael Ludwig: A terribly nice politician" In: Die Presse newspaper , Vienna, print edition, March 28, 2009. Accessed January 10, 2015.
  3. ↑ orf.at: Mayor Ludwig got married . Article dated August 31, 2018, accessed August 31, 2018.
  4. ↑ Laska: “Full-time grandmother” instead of city councilor  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wien.orf.at  In: ORF . March 23, 2009
  5. ^ Anna Thalhammer: The camp fight in Vienna's SPÖ. In: The press. November 26, 2016. Retrieved November 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Josef Gebhard: Also Michael Ludwig against red-blue. In: Courier. June 9, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Ludwig elected as the new mayor - wien.ORF.at. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  8. ↑ 68th Association of Cities: Ludwig unanimously elected President . OTS notification dated June 7, 2018, accessed June 7, 2018.
  9. ↑ Imprimatur fan club: Monaldi & Sorti. The last days of the Viennese authorities. Tragic satire in 24 acts with prelude and epilogue. With the heavenly patronage of Karl Kraus (January 2, 2013)
predecessor Office successor
Michael Häupl Mayor of Vienna
2018– 		-
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna