Michael Spindelegger

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Michael Spindelegger (2013)

Michael Spindelegger (born December 21, 1959 in Mödling ) is a former Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). From 2008 to 2013 he was Austrian Foreign Minister , from April and May 2011 also Vice Chancellor and ÖVP federal party chairman. From 2013 until his resignation in August 2014, he was Minister of Finance . Since 2016 he has headed the Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).

Life

Spindelegger attended elementary school in Hinterbrühl , where he grew up and where he lives today. He then attended high school in Mödling, where he was in the same class with sports manager Ronnie Leitgeb . 1977 to 1978 he did his service as a one-year volunteer in the Austrian Armed Forces . As part of a career as a militia officer, Spindelegger holds the rank of first lieutenant . From 1978 he studied law at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1983 with a doctorate . He also worked as an assistant at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Vienna. He then did a legal internship at various courts.

After completing his doctorate, Spindelegger began a professional career in the service of the Province of Lower Austria and in the district authorities of Gmünd and Baden . He is a member of the KAV Norica in the ÖCV , also honorary philistine of the K.Ö.aV Floriana St. Pölten and the Ö.KaV Theresiana in the ÖCV as well as the K.Ö.St.V. Tuistonia Mödling in the MKV. Spindelegger has been a member of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem since 2009 .

Spindelegger is married to an employee of the audit office and has two sons.

Since November 17, 2014, he has been a member of the supervisory board of Industrieliegenschaftsverwaltung AG, which is owned by the Turnauer family . From 2015 he was director of the Agency for the Modernization of Ukraine (AMU) based in Vienna. Together with international experts, Spindelegger aimed to promote and support Ukraine and its further development towards the EU. The fact that the Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtasch is also involved in the financing of the agency led to criticism of Spindelegger's involvement in the agency.

Since January 2016 he has been Director General of the Vienna-based International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).

politics

In 1987 he went into politics following the example of his father, Erich Spindelegger . First he headed the secretariat of his mentor Robert Lichal in the Federal Ministry for National Defense, with whom he was involved in the Oerlikon scandal and was suspected of having been involved in banned party funding for the ÖVP. The relevant proceedings were discontinued after three years of investigation.

From 1990 he worked closely with the then ÖVP Foreign Minister Alois Mock . Spindelegger still describes both politicians as role models. In 1990 Spindelegger switched to the private sector and completed a trainee program at the Federation of Industrialists . He worked in the legal department of Alcatel , at Siemens in sales, in the Verbundgesellschaft , in Germany at the Confederation of German Employers' Associations and in the board secretariat of GiroCredit Bank AG der Sparkassen .

From 1991 Spindelegger was Federal Deputy Chairman of the ÖAAB , from 2009 to 2011 its Federal Chairman. He was a member of the Federal Council for a short time in 1992 and a member of the National Council from 1993 . In 1995 and 1996 he was a member of the European Parliament . In 1996 Spindelegger returned to the Austrian National Council, where he worked until December 2008. He became the foreign policy spokesman for the ÖVP and parliamentary group leader in the foreign policy committee. In addition, from 2000 to 2006 he was a deputy club chairman of the ÖVP in the National Council.

From 2006 Spindelegger was second President of the National Council . On October 28, 2008, he was re-elected second President of the National Council with 142 of 170 valid votes. Michael Spindelegger was nominated as Foreign Minister by Josef Pröll a little later in the coalition negotiations with the SPÖ after the incumbent Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik announced shortly before the conclusion of the coalition pact that she would no longer be available for the office. Spindelegger took office on December 2, 2008. His successor as the second President of the National Council was Fritz Neugebauer on December 3, 2008 .

After Josef Pröll resigned as ÖVP chairman and vice chancellor in April 2011, Spindelegger was designated by the party executive on April 14, 2011 as his successor in both positions. On April 21 he was sworn in as Vice Chancellor, and on May 20 he was officially elected federal party chairman. As a result, Spindelegger drew a line under various ÖVP scandals. ÖVP officials and mandataries must now undertake to comply with the ÖVP code of conduct, which the ÖVP Ethics Council monitors.

In terms of content, Michael Spindelegger put a lot of emphasis on the topic of “economy and jobs”, although he was confronted with the criticism that as an ÖAAB member he had too little economic competence. Therefore, the ÖVP boss had economic policy proposals drawn up by an economic platform he had initiated called “Enterprise Austria 2025”.

In the 2013 National Council election , Spindelegger stood as the top candidate of his party with the claim to become Federal Chancellor after the election. He often proclaimed an unleashing of the economy , which he imagined more flexible working hours and more liberal work regulations. With 23.99%, the ÖVP only received the second most votes in this election and, after two months of coalition negotiations with Spindelegger as chief negotiator on the side of the People's Party, entered into a government with the first-placed SPÖ . Spindelegger himself took over the office of finance minister , his successor in the foreign ministry was Sebastian Kurz, then 27 years old .

On August 26, 2014, Spindelegger announced his resignation from all offices. The reason for this was internal party criticism, especially in the area of ​​tax reform. As federal party leader of the ÖVP and vice chancellor, he was followed by the Minister of Economics and Science Reinhold Mitterlehner , as Minister of Finance by Hans Jörg Schelling .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spindelegger with 95.5 percent new ÖVP boss. In: oesterreich.orf.at. May 20, 2011, accessed October 28, 2018 .
  2. ^ Resignation in the Salzburger Nachrichten , accessed on August 26, 2014
  3. ↑ a b c d Benedikt Narodoslawsky / Date (No. 12/2010, p. 37f): Der Immerbrave ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.date.at
  4. ↑ : Federal Association of Militia Associations: 25 years of the Federal Association of Militia Associations and their military activities. Register of authors, Milizverlag, Salzburg 2010, 152.
  5. ^ "Jerusalem: Foreign Minister Spindelegger in the Austrian Hospice" , KAP, February 19, 2010
  6. ↑ "Foreign Minister Spindelegger became a grave knight" ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , kathweb.at, June 24, 2009, accessed on March 12, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / scoop.at
  7. ↑ derStandard.at - Spindelegger has a new job as a member of the supervisory board . Article dated November 27, 2014, accessed November 27, 2014.
  8. ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20150513_OTS0149/amu-team-beginnt-programm-arbeit-bild
  9. ↑ derStandard.at - Spindelegger becomes director of the Ukrainian modernization agency . APA notification dated March 3, 2015, accessed March 3, 2015.
  10. ↑ orf.at - New job for Spindelegger . Article dated September 30, 2015, accessed September 30, 2015.
  11. ↑ diepresse.com: How Michael Spindelegger got his new job - modernization of Ukraine canceled . Article dated September 30, 2015, accessed October 2, 2015.
  12. ^ Courier: Europe from the inside: Spindelegger is back . Article from January 28, 2016, accessed on January 28, 2016.
  13. ^ The ammunition affair from the archives , Der Standard, May 17, 2011
  14. ↑ Der Spiegel: Lilac bush for the wife , January 15, 1990
  15. ↑ Austria has a new government
  16. ↑ orf.at: New ÖVP government team sworn in
  17. ↑ ÖVP Code of Conduct ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ÖVP homepage, accessed on August 30, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oevp.at
  18. ^ ÖVP ethics council
  19. ↑ Profile weakness , Wiener Zeitung, April 20, 2012
  20. ^ Enterprise Austria 2025
  21. ↑ Austria 2025 - The Land of Successes ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.3 MB), results paper, October 8, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unternehmen-oesterreich2025.at
  22. ↑ Spindelegger wants to become chancellor , accessed on February 21, 2016
  23. ↑ Spindelegger wants to unleash the economy ( memento from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 21, 2016
  24. ^ Fixed coalition: “Don't have to reinvent Austria” ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 21, 2016
  25. ^ Coalition is in place: Spindelegger becomes finance minister, briefly foreign minister , accessed on 21 February 2016
  26. ↑ derstandard - "Spindelegger: 'I'm resigning from all offices'"
  27. ^ Austrian Parliament , accessed on June 11, 2009.
  28. ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.6 MB)
  29. ↑ Order for the government: "Where was my performance?" ( Memento from April 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung , January 24, 2012

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SURNAME Spindelegger, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling