Norbert Kapeller

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Norbert Karl Kapeller (born January 7, 1970 in Freistadt , Upper Austria ) is a former Austrian politician ( ÖVP ).

Life

Norbert Kapeller attended elementary school in Selker from 1976 and secondary school in Pregarten from 1980 . This was followed by the higher agricultural federal college in St. Florian , where he graduated in 1989 . This was followed by military service before he attended the gendarmerie school in Linz between 1991 and 1993 . Between 1998 and 2000 he trained as a senior police force. Norbert Kapeller has completed the first section of law studies at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz.

After his time as a gendarmerie officer from 1991 to 1999, he became an employee of the Federal Asylum Office in Linz (1999). In 2000, he moved to the Upper Austrian Security Directorate and since 2006 Kapeller has been a senior official in the Ministry of the Interior.

His political career began in 1997 as a member of the municipal council of the city of Freistadt. Since 2000, Norbert Kapeller was district party chairman of the ÖVP in the Freistadt district .

On December 20, 2002, Norbert Kapeller became a member of the Austrian National Council and remained so until October 29, 2006 (22nd legislative period). After Reinhold Mitterlehner's mandate changed , Kapeller moved back to the National Council on January 15, 2007. After the end of the 23rd legislative period on October 27, 2008, he resigned from the National Council for the time being, but was able to move up to its seat through the appointment of Reinhold Mitterlehner as Minister of Economics and was sworn in again on December 3, 2008.

In March 2011, Kapeller came under public criticism. He was accused of having misused a disability card. The police discovered a handicap ID in his vehicle parked in a disabled parking lot, which belonged to a relative who died in 2001. The politician stated that his wife had misused the ID; the fine for using someone else's identity card was paid, the district attorney had stopped the investigation.

As a result of political pressure from his own party, he resigned from all political offices on March 14, 2011, contrary to initial statements. He spoke of a "manhunt". The Federal Ministry of the Interior created a post for Kapeller on June 1, 2011 in the Department of Memorial Service and War Grave Care with an office in the Mauthausen Memorial .

In autumn 2011, however, Kapeller came under fire again after he had founded a security company as a part-time police officer on sick leave, but did not appear at his post. Because of this criticism, he left the ÖVP as a simple party member.

Private

Norbert Kapeller is married and lives with his family in Freistadt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SELBSTSCHUTZ eU Imprint accessed on October 26, 2015
  2. ↑ VP-Kapeller with handicapped ID from Totem in the car. In: derStandard.at. March 10, 2011, accessed December 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Disability ID misused. In: oesterreich.orf.at. March 10, 2011, accessed November 26, 2017 .
  4. ↑ ÖVP-Kapeller apologizes and donates. In: derStandard.at. March 11, 2011, accessed December 16, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Identity card affair: ÖVP defense spokesman Kapeller resigns. In: DiePresse.com. March 14, 2011, accessed March 3, 2018 .
  6. ^ Fritz Pessl: Parliamentarians: Company founded on sick leave ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Salzburger Nachrichten, September 2, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.salzburg.com
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / derstandard.at
  8. ↑ Kapeller resigned from ÖVP on ORF October 18, 2011, accessed on October 18, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Kapeller, Norbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kapeller, Norbert Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH 7th January 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Free City