Norbert Gugerbauer

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Norbert Gugerbauer (born February 11, 1950 in Schwanenstadt ) is a former member of the Austrian National Council and a former politician of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ).

Professional background

Norbert Gugerbauer studied law and received his doctorate in 1977 from the University of Vienna . He has been an independent lawyer since 1981, worked for several years in Brussels and is now a senior partner in a law firm in Vienna . He founded the Internet legal information service JUSLINE. Gugerbauer has been teaching at the University of Applied Sciences Management Center Innsbruck (MCI) , the University of Vienna (Institute for Economic Law) and the University of St. Gallen and has been honorary professor for competition law at the Institute for Corporate Law at the University of Linz since 2006 .

From February 2018 he was a member of the Supervisory Board of ÖBB-Holding AG . He resigned his mandate on March 19, 2018, and Gilbert Trattner took over .

In April 2019 insolvency proceedings were opened against Gugerbauer; his pension was attached to the subsistence level.

Political career

He began his political career as Deputy Chairman of the Austrian Students' Union , was a member of the municipal and city council of Schwanenstadt from 1979 to 1986 and a member of the National Council from 1983 to 1993, including chairman of the Club of the Freedom Party of Austria from 1989 to 1992 In 1986 he supported Jörg Haider against Norbert Steger . In the National Council election in 1990 , he ran as a liberal top candidate. In the course of time he moved away from Haider programmatically, as he was always assigned to the economically liberal wing. He was also said to have ambitions for the FPÖ chairman post. When Jörg Haider threatened to boycott Heide Schmidt's presidential election campaign in 1992 , Gugerbauer resigned all of his political functions and, as a result, his mandate as a member of parliament.

He held other party functions as General Secretary of the FPÖ from 1986 to 1988, as Deputy Federal Party Chairman of the FPÖ from 1988 to 1992 and as FPÖ Regional Party Chairman of Upper Austria from 1989 to 1992.

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Individual evidence

  1. orf.at: ÖBB supervisory board newly constituted . Article dated February 28, 2018, accessed February 28, 2018.
  2. ÖBB-Holding with a new controller . trend , edition 13/2018, page 9.
  3. Haider's companion Norbert Gugerbauer is broke , accessed on May 14, 2019
  4. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)