ORF Board of Trustees
The Foundation Board of the ORF is an organ of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) and primarily serves to control and manage the broadcasting company. The Board of Trustees consists of 35 members and ensures the influence of the political parties in ORF. 24 of the 35 foundation councils are selected by the federal government (nine members), state governments (one member per federal state) and parliamentary parties (one member per party), 6 by the public council , which consists of 17 members appointed by the Federal Chancellor, and another five foundation councils are provided by ORF -Central Works Council. This means that 32 out of 35 foundation councils can be assigned to parties. Norbert Steger has been the chairman of the ORF Board of Trustees since May 2018 .
history
ORF supervisory board 1967 to 1974
The later ORF board of trustees replaced the previous supervisory board as the successor body . The legal basis was the Broadcasting Act 1966 . The Supervisory Board consisted of 22 members and comprised nine country representatives, a total of five representatives from the areas of churches and religious communities, science, art, education and sport. Six members were party representatives from what was then the SPÖ-ÖVP proportional representation , two members sent the works councils.
ORF Board of Trustees 1974 to 2001
The former body based on the Broadcasting Act 1974 was the ORF Board of Trustees. It took up its function on September 24, 1974 with the first meeting; after 27 years, with the end of its term on December 31, 2001, the Board of Trustees was replaced by the Board of Trustees. Like the latter, the board of trustees consisted of 35 members, six of whom were sent by the federal government, nine by the federal states, five by the ORF central works council and six members by the listeners 'and viewers' representatives (up to December 2001 the predecessor body of the ORF public council ).
ORF Board of Trustees since 2002
The tasks of the board of trustees are similar to a supervisory board in a stock corporation. The Board of Trustees elects the General Director with a simple majority and can vote him out again with a 2/3 majority and makes personnel decisions. He also sets the program fee and the amount of advertising fees. He is also responsible for deciding whether contracts with the ORF may be made public.
The foundation board exists on the basis of the ORF law, which was passed on July 5, 2001 by the Austrian National Council with the votes of the MPs from the ÖVP and FPÖ . This resulted in the creation of the three bodies General Director , Foundation Council and Public Council.
- Chairperson
- 2001–2010: Klaus Pekarek
- 2010–2014: Brigitte Kulovits-Rupp
- 2014–2018: Dietmar Hoscher
- since 2018: Norbert Steger
Members
The Board of Trustees was constituted on May 17, 2018. Norbert Steger was elected chairman and Franz Medwenitsch was elected vice chairman.
In 2020, seven of the 35 seats on the Board of Trustees were filled. Of the nine government mandates, five instead of the previous four went to the ÖVP, two to the Greens and two to independently selected individuals (Ruth Strondl and Bernhard Tschrepitsch). The Greens nominated Lothar Lockl and Andrea Danmayr. Four councilors nominated by the FPÖ, as well as Alfred Trendl, left the committee. Instead of Susanne Fengler (JETZT / PILZ) came Sigrid Pilz , who had been ordered by the Greens . Norbert Steger remained chairman. The central works council sent Marianne Schüttner to replace Gerhard Moser.
| Surname | posted by |
|---|---|
| Ewald Aschauer | ÖVP |
| Jürgen Beilein | Federal government |
| Gerhard Berti | Central Works Council |
| Andrea Danmayr | Federal government |
| Werner Dax | Burgenland |
| Herbert Fechter | Federal government |
| Alfred Geismayr | Vorarlberg |
| Hans Peter Haselsteiner | NEOS |
| Corina Heinreichsberger | Public Council |
| Katharina Hofer | Upper Austria |
| Herwig Hösele | Federal government |
| Christiana Jankovics | Central Works Council |
| Stefan Jung | Central Works Council |
| Norbert Kettner | Vienna |
| Andreas Kratschmar | Public Council |
| Heinz Lederer | SPÖ |
| Matthias Limbeck | Salzburg |
| Lothar Lockl | Federal government |
| Sophie Matkovits | Public Council |
| Franz Medwenitsch | Federal government |
| Helmut Miernicki | Lower Austria |
| Barbara Nepp | Public Council |
| Siggi Neuschitzer | Carinthia |
| Sigrid mushroom | The green |
| Klaus Poier | Styria |
| Josef Resch | Tyrol |
| Marianne Schüttner | Central Works Council |
| Gregor Schütze | Federal government |
| Norbert Steger | FPÖ |
| Gudrun Stindl | Central Works Council |
| Petra Stolba | Public Council |
| Ruth Strondl | Federal government |
| Bernhard Tschrepitsch | Federal government |
| Georg Watschinger | Public Council |
| Thomas Zach | ÖVP |
Individual evidence
- ↑ orf.at - Wrabetz remains ORF boss . Article dated August 9, 2016, accessed August 9, 2016.
- ↑ The-political-influence-on-ORF-has-solidified website of the daily newspaper Die Presse , Vienna, May 7, 2014
- ↑ a b derStandard.at: FPÖ-Steger is chairman of the ORF board of trustees . Article dated May 17, 2018, accessed May 17, 2018.
- ^ Kurier: Board of Trustees: Steger got the worst vote ever . Article dated May 17, 2018, accessed May 17, 2018.
- ↑ derStandard.at: Kulovits-Rupp - the first woman to head the board of trustees . Article dated April 22, 2010, accessed May 17, 2018.
- ↑ Dietmar Hoscher new Chairman of the Board of Trustees . Article dated May 7, 2014, accessed May 17, 2018.
- ^ ORF: Constitution of the Board of Trustees. In: APA-OTS. May 17, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 .
- ↑ The government appointed new ORF board members. In: orf.at. March 11, 2020, accessed April 9, 2020 .
Web links
- ORF customer service: Members of the Board of Trustees . Retrieved May 1, 2016.
- APA-OTS : The ORF Board of Trustees - Balance Sheet and Statistics (contains a complete list of all persons sent to the Board of Trustees 1974–2001), December 5, 2001. Accessed March 31, 2010.