Norbert Hofer

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Norbert Hofer (2019)

Norbert Gerwald Hofer (born March 2, 1971 in Vorau , Styria ) is an Austrian politician and federal party leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). On June 1, 2021, he announced his resignation from this position.

From March to October 2020 he was regional party leader of the FPÖ Burgenland . He is a member of the Austrian National Council . Since 2019 - as from 2013 to 2017 - he has also been its third president . From 2017 to 2019 was Hofer Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology in the federal government short-I . He was his party's candidate in the 2016 federal presidential election and the FPÖ's top candidate in the 2019 National Council election in Austria .

Life

origin

According to the family history, his grandfather was born the son of Burgenland emigrants in Chicago ( Illinois , USA ) and was a successful manufacturer . The ancestors on the paternal side came from Styria . His father Gerwald Julius Hofer was director of the E-Werke from Pinkafeld in Burgenland and for a long time he was active for the ÖVP , for which he sat on the council of Pinkafeld. Norbert Hofer grew up in a middle-class family with three siblings in Pinkafeld. After Hofer's sister died of cancer at the age of sixteen, the father initially withdrew from politics. A few years later, however, he ran against the pressure of the owner of the E-Werke as a party freelancer for the FPÖ. To protest against this behavior, Norbert Hofer became active for the FPÖ in 1993. The father eventually became FPÖ councilor and chairman of the liberal senior citizens' ring in Burgenland.

education and profession

Hofer attended the elementary school Pinkafeld (1977-1981), the Bundesrealgymnasium Oberschützen (1981-1983) and the secondary school Pinkafeld (1983-1985). After graduating from the higher technical college in Eisenstadt (HTBLA) in the aviation technology department in 1990 and military service in 1990/91 with the armed forces - he was stationed at the Hungarian border as part of the border surveillance assistance mission - he worked for several months as a facility advisor and technical draftsman employed at the Pinkafelder E-Werken , which included a sales activity at trade fairs .

Hofer then worked from 1991 to 1994 as an on -board and systems engineer for engines and auxiliary gas turbines (flight technician) and as a contract negotiator at Lauda Air Engineering and at the same time obtained the second and first class aircraft inspection certificate. He also joined the Association of Austrian Engineers (VÖI).

From 1995 to 1999 he completed behavioral seminars and in 1999 he trained as a communication and behavior trainer. He received instructions from the rhetoric trainer Géza Molnár .

In 2000 he passed the service examination for the higher accounting and administrative service for civil servants at the administrative school of the Burgenland provincial government . From 2010 to 2015 Hofer was employed in the office of the Burgenland Provincial Government ( Provincial Government Niessl III ) in social controlling ; 2011 took place the unpaid leave , he was taken out of service thus 2012/13/14.

Political career

Political party

Hofer was organizing Speaker by Helmut Haigermoser led advocacy Freiheitlicher Ring economy Driving (1994), campaign manager and organizational consultant of the FPÖ Burgenland (1994-1996) and city party chairman in Eisenstadt (1994 to 2006) and member of the national party executive (since 1994). From 1996 to 2007 he was state party secretary of the FPÖ Burgenland; he experienced the regional party leaders Wolfgang Rauter , Stefan Salzl and Johann Tschürtz . Also in 1996 he became a member of the state party presidium. After the state elections in Burgenland in 1996 , he was press spokesman for the FPÖ regional councilor Wolfgang Rauter ( regional government Stix II ) until 2000 . As part of the Burgenland State Election, 2000 , he was to 2006 club -Director of the FPÖ parliamentary clubs under Stefan Salzl. From 2004 to 2009 he was district party chairman for the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district . In 2006 he became regional party chairman under Johann Tschürtz and finance officer of the FPÖ Burgenland. Géza Molnár , son of an acquaintance of the same name and rhetoric trainer , is considered to be his “ protégé ” in Eisenstadt and Burgenland .

In 2005 Hofer was one of those party functionaries who did not join Jörg Haider in the split off Bündnis Zukunft Österreich (BZÖ) , then rose to become a member of the federal party presidium and board of the FPÖ and in 2005 became one of the deputies of the new federal party chairman Heinz-Christian Strache .

In the FPÖ he has also been a board member of the FPÖ educational institute founded in 2006 under the presidency of Hilmar Kabas , for which he has been a trainer and lecturer since 1996 , instead of the former party academy ( Freedom Academy ) headed by Ewald Stadler . He was also the author of the FPÖ party program , which was corrected by Andreas Mölzer , Member of the European Parliament and which was adopted on June 18, 2011 during the 30th Ordinary Federal Party Congress in Graz. This will include, among other things. expresses commitment to the "German national community ". In addition, Hofer has been responsible for the manual of liberal politics since 1997 (at that time still under the federal party chairman Jörg Haider) , the fourth edition of which was published in 2013 by the FPÖ educational institute. Scientists attest the manual an Islamophobic discourse.

Member of Parliament and the Presidium of the National Council

Norbert Hofer in the Austrian parliament on the occasion of the open day on the national holiday in 2016

From 1997 to 2007 he was a member of the Eisenstadt municipal council .

After the 2006 National Council election - he ran for Manfred Kölly in second place on the list - Hofer became a member of the Austrian National Council . In contrast to other candidates with disabilities, "[he] made it as a member of Parliament immediately". He was a. Deputy Head of the Family Committee and Secretary of the Environment Committee. In 2008 , this time as the top candidate on the FPÖ list in Burgenland, he moved in again. During this period he was among others. Chairman of the permanent subcommittee of the Court of Auditors committee, vice chairman of the environmental committee and secretary of the family committee. From 2006 to 2013 he was also deputy chairman under Heinz-Christian Strache of the Freedom Parliamentary Club .

Since the XXV. Legislative period 2013 is / was a. Deputy chairman of the permanent subcommittee of the main committee and the main committee as well as deputy chairman of the committee of rules of procedure, chairman representative of the Hypo investigation committee, deputy chairman of the study commission on strengthening democracy in Austria, secretary of the committee for labor and social affairs and the environmental committee.

In the constituent session of the National Council after the National Council election in 2013 , he was elected as the third party president of the National Council on October 29, 2013 as a nominee for the third largest party by mandate . At the time, all FPÖ MPs wore a blue cornflower on their lapels . His office manager is Schimanek's son Rene Schimanek, FPÖ city councilor in Langenlois .

Since 2014 he has been the deputy chairman of the Austrian Parliamentary Society .

At the constituent meeting for the opening of the 26th legislative period of the Austrian National Council on November 9, 2017, Hofer was re-elected as the third President of the National Council. With 132 of 158 valid votes of the MPs, he received the most votes of all presidents who were elected in this legislative period (83.5 percent). Since he was appointed Minister of Infrastructure in the Federal Government Short I on December 18, 2017 , he resigned as the third President of the National Council.

Since May 24, 2019 he has been a member of the National Council again ( XXVI legislative period ), he took over the mandate from Christian Ries .

Election of the Federal President in 2016

Norbert Hofer with Alexander Van der Bellen (2016)

From FPÖ federal party leader Heinz-Christian Strache in advance of the election as Austrian president in 2016 several times as a possible candidate of his party for the federal president called Hofer rejected the first by pointing out he felt too young and striving not to, even on its own . The FPÖ federal party executive was ultimately able to convince him of the candidacy and presented him as a candidate for election on January 28, 2016. The statement in an interview caused irritation: “You will still be surprised what is possible!” During the election campaign, “many people perceived it as an undisguised threat that the rights of the Federal President should be expanded in a previously completely unusual way to achieve a level of power similar to that of the French and American presidents. ”The statement was voted Unspruch des Jahres 2016 by the Research Center for Austrian German at the University of Graz .

In the first round of the election, the topics of the refugee crisis and the candidates' understanding of office and how to deal with the competencies of a Federal President dominated the election campaign. Hofer, for example, was an opponent of the transatlantic free trade agreement (TTIP) and announced that, as Federal President, he would not sign the treaty. The population should decide on a referendum . On the subject of the refugee crisis, Hofer rejected a numerical upper limit for refugees, as it was only a "sedative pill" for the population. Hofer spoke out in favor of further controls at the state borders within the Schengen area and advocated more benefits in kind instead of cash for those entitled to asylum. Similar topics dominated the runoff election. In the referendum in Austria on joining the European Union in 1994, Hofer voted against joining the EU. In the election campaign he confirmed this decision and would also vote against joining the EU today if Austria were not a member of the EU. According to Hofer, Austria today has bilateral agreements with the EU similar to Switzerland .

In the first ballot on April 24, 2016, he received the most votes with 35.05 percent, ahead of the independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen ( The Greens ), who achieved 21.34 percent. In the subsequent second ballot ( runoff ) on May 22, 2016, he was defeated by just under 49.65 percent of the votes cast. This ballot was challenged by the FPÖ with an election challenge and overturned by the Constitutional Court due to formal deficiencies in the counting of the postal votes. With the end of the term of office of Federal President Heinz Fischer on July 8th, the College of the three National Council Presidents, in addition to Hofer, National Council President Doris Bures (SPÖ) and Second President Karlheinz Kopf (ÖVP), took over the office of the Federal President in accordance with Article 64 of the Federal Constitutional Act . When the second ballot was repeated on December 4, 2016, he was again defeated by his opponent Alexander Van der Bellen with 46.21% of the vote.

Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology

After the ÖVP and the FPÖ were able to grow strongly in the 2017 National Council elections , they formed a joint government coalition . Norbert Hofer was nominated by the FPÖ as Minister of Infrastructure and finally appointed and sworn in by Federal President Van der Bellen as Minister in the Federal Government Brief I on December 18, 2017 .

As a result of the video scandal surrounding Heinz-Christian Strache and the dismissal of Federal Interior Minister Herbert Kickl , Norbert Hofer was removed from his ministerial office by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen at his own request on May 22, 2019.

In February 2020, the Economic and Corruption Prosecutor applied for Hofer's parliamentary immunity to be lifted . The reason given is the suspicion of accepting gifts during his time as Minister of Transport.

Federal party leader of the FPÖ

On June 4, 2019, Hofer was unanimously nominated by the party presidency as the top candidate for the 2019 National Council election in Austria . At this point he was already designated party chairman.

He has been the elected federal party leader of the FPÖ since September 14, 2019. After his party had received 16.17 percent of the vote in the 2019 National Council election, Hofer initially did not want to have any concrete exploratory talks with Sebastian Kurz and the ÖVP because the FPÖ did not receive a government contract from Hofer's point of view.

On March 7, 2020, Hofer was elected regional party chairman of the FPÖ Burgenland with 100 out of 132 valid votes . Opposing candidate Manfred Haidinger received 32 votes. In October 2020 he handed over the chairmanship of the FPÖ Burgenland to Alexander Petschnig .

On June 1, 2021, Hofer resigned as party chairman.

Political positions

Hofer advocates a change from representative to direct democracy “based on the Swiss model”. He appears as an opponent of the transatlantic free trade agreement (TTIP) and has announced that if he is elected president, he will use his veto and force a referendum. In other areas, too, he wanted to maintain a new understanding of office that was not limited to representation. Hofer is co-author of the party program of the FPÖ and the “Handbook of Liberal Politics” and welcomed the resumption of the commitment to the “German language and cultural community” , which was pushed through by Heinz-Christian Strache , whose deputy he was, under Jörg Haider . He rejects immigration and registered partnerships for homosexuals .

In the run-up to the federal presidential election in 2016, Hofer repeatedly expressed understanding for the fact that the Austrians were increasingly applying for gun ownership cards in view of the refugee crisis ; people “always tried to protect themselves in uncertain times”. Hofer is a gun owner and marksman himself.

As head of the FPÖ, Hofer announced his intention to make environmental protection a priority and described " climate protection and human-induced climate change" as "the greatest challenges of our time ". Unlike his predecessor Heinz-Christian Strache, he would not doubt that global warming is man-made . Before the National Council election in 2019 , however, he said in a panel discussion with reference to the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg : “What's next? The climate martial law? We don't want a Zöpferl dictatorship. "

In May 2020, Hofer described the coronavirus as "a flu virus that is not dangerous for over 80 percent of the population". He accused the government of having abused the extensive power it had been given to create “unconstitutional decrees and ordinances” and warned of a “second wave of record unemployment and bankruptcies”. On June 16, 2020, Hofer made the statement at an election campaign event “I'm not afraid of Corona. Corona is not dangerous. The Koran is more dangerous there. ”He was then charged with sedition.

Transport policy

In 2018 Hofer spoke out in favor of the introduction of Tempo 140 on two thirds of all Austrian motorways. His proposal contradicts the recommendations of an expert committee commissioned by the Ministry of Transport, which had the task of developing measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The committee spoke out in favor of lowering the maximum speed to 100 km / h on all motorways and expressways for all cars. This proposal is rejected by Hofer, as climate targets in the transport sector can be achieved through the creation of incentives and not through bans. A pilot project initiated by Hofer at the beginning of 2019 for three road crossings in Linz on “turning right at red” has been criticized by the Research Society Road - Rail - Transport , the Association of Austrian Municipalities and the Austrian Transport Club.

Other activities

Hofer is active in environmental policy. Since 2010 he has been deputy chairman of the Austrian section of the non-profit European association for renewable energies Eurosolar e. V. (EUROSOLAR). In 2011 he became a member of the advisory board of the interest group of the sector associations for renewable energy, Renewable Energy Austria (EEÖ).

In financial year 2010/11 he was a member of the supervisory board of the charter airline Mapjet AG and 2011/12 of International Sky Services AG and from 2010 to 2012 chairman of the board of the majority owner of mapjet (PAF private foundation ).

Private

Life and family

Norbert Hofer with Hans Peter Doskozil at an exhibition opening in the Stadtmuseum Pinkafeld (2018)

Hofer is married for the second time and has four children, three of which are from the first marriage. A daughter was born from his current marriage to Verena Hofer. Hofer describes himself as a believer. He left the Catholic Church in 2009 and became a Protestant. His main residence is in Pinkafeld in Burgenland .

Accident and volunteering

In 2003 Hofer fell with a paraglider in Stubenberg am See in Styria and sustained severe spinal injuries. This injury led to an incomplete paraplegic syndrome . Since then he has been dependent on the support of a walking stick.

Since then he has been involved in disability policy on a voluntary basis . Hofer has been a member of the Federal Disability Advisory Council since 2007 and of the Austrian Council for Voluntary Work since 2009. From 2008 to 2012 he was Vice President of the Burgenland regional group of the Austrian Civil Invalid Association (ÖZIV).

Student connection

Hofer is an honorary member of the student association “pennal-conservative fraternity Marko-Germania zu Pinkafeld” in the CDC. The Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) attests to the connection between “ völkisch nationalism ” and “democracy skepticism”. The fraternity has a "political mandate".

Honors

Publications

Hofer is the author or editor of several papers published by the FPÖ Educational Institute :

  • Disability and need for care in Austria. A guide [measures to ensure legal, affordable and practical care and support]. 3. Edition. Freedom Academy, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902720-05-4 .
  • (Ed.): Michael Howanietz: For a free Austria. Sovereignty as a future model. Freedom Parliament Club, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902720-11-5 .
  • (Ed.): Michael Howanietz: Only self-sufficient means sovereign. Those who have water, food and energy are given freedom. FPÖ-Bildungsinstitut, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902720-07-8 .
  • Handbook of Liberal Politics. A guide for management officials and elected officials of the Freedom Party of Austria. 4th edition, FPÖ-Bildungsinstitut, Vienna 2013.
  • with Elisabeth Schwetz, Mario Arnhold: Life after paraplegia. Advice for disabled people and people in need of care. A guide. FPÖ-Bildungsinstitut, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902720-18-4 .
  • (Ed.): Dietrich Wertz, Michael Howanietz: Energy and food - foundations of freedom. 3. Edition. FPÖ Educational Institute, Vienna 2015.

The following articles also appeared:

  • with Hannes Swoboda and Stephan Pernkopf : Party politics has no place here. In: Barbara Schmidt (Ed.): Current upwards. 10 years of liberalization of the electricity market in Austria (= energy industry. Volume 1). Lit, Vienna et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50296-4 , pp. 205 ff.

See also

  • List of members of the Austrian National Council ( XXIII. , XXIV. , XXV. And XXVI. Legislative period)

literature

Web links

Commons : Norbert Hofer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Norbert Hofer  - Quotes

Individual evidence

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  16. ↑ Farid Hafez : Islamophobic Populism. Mosque and minaret building bans by Austrian parliamentary parties (= VS research ). With a preface by Anton Pelinka , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17152-4 , p. 108; See Michal Krzyzanowski : From Anti-Immigration and Nationalist Revisionism to Islamophobia: Continuities and Shifts in Recent Discourses and Patterns of Political Communication of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) . In: Ruth Wodak , Majid KhosraviNik, Brigitte Mral (Eds.): Right-Wing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse . Bloomsbury, London et al. 2013, ISBN 978-1-78093-343-6 , pp. 135–148, here: p. 142.
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  21. ^ Kurier: Christian Ries (FPÖ) has to vacate space in the National Council again . Article dated May 24, 2019, accessed May 24, 2019.
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  30. ↑ See Nina Horaczek , Claudia Reiterer : HC Strache. His rise, his backers, his enemies. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-8000-7417-4 , p. 139; see Rainer Nowak , Christian Ultsch: Norbert Hofer: “Is integration still possible?” (Interview). In: Die Presse , May 17, 2016.
  31. ^ BP election: Hofer would vote against joining the EU. In: diepresse.com. April 10, 2016, accessed June 22, 2016 .
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  42. ↑ Austria: Shortly before comeback - coalition with FPÖ again? In: Fr.de , September 30, 2019.
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  54. ↑ By women with “brood care” and immigrants as “wasp larvae that eat maggots from within”. In: sosmitmensch.at. SOS Mitmensch , November 15, 2016, accessed on July 12, 2019 (with quotes from the book and associated page numbers).
personal data
SURNAME Hofer, Norbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofer, Norbert Gerwald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian engineer, politician (FPÖ) and third President of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH March 2nd 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Vorau , Styria