Paul Burgstaller

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Paul Burgstaller (born July 4, 1945 in Rothwein ) is a former Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). Burgstaller was a member of the National Council from 1982 to 1994 .

education and profession

After compulsory school, Burgstaller graduated from the VOEST-Alpine AG factory school, where he worked as a research assistant in the metallurgical department of the Austrian Alpine Mining Company. He also studied as an extraordinary student at the Montan University Leoben and was employed as a materials tester from 1969. In 1978 he was promoted to head of the department for quality assurance and quality statistics in research at VOEST-Alpine AG at the headquarters in Leoben.

After the end of his political career, Burgstaller became managing director of the company Impera from Upper Austria, which produces gaming machines.

politics

Burgstaller worked from 1974 to 1980 as deputy works council chairman at VOEST-Alpine AG in Leoben and in 1980 took over the office of works council chairman. In addition, he worked between 1979 and 1989 as a member of the chamber council for workers and employees in Styria. In 1980, Governor Josef Krainer made Burgstaller deputy chairman of the ÖVP Styria, and he also supported him in the election to the National Council. As a result, Burgstaller took over the office of chief district party chairman of the ÖVP Leoben in 1982 and was sworn in as a member of the National Council on February 16, 1982. In the National Council, Burgstaller drew attention to himself in 1987 in the course of the anti-Iraq campaign with a motion of no confidence in his party friend, Defense Minister Robert Lichal . In addition, he often violently criticized the nationalized policy and the management of the SPÖ, which almost resulted in him being expelled from the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions.

The motion of censure against Lichal led to a break between Burgstaller and the ÖVP, and because of his criticism of the nationalized people, he burdened the coalition with the SPÖ. Furthermore, his proximity to the FPÖ led to his inner-party isolation. As early as 1992 he resigned from office as Styrian regional chairman and chief district party chairman of Leoben. After that, Burgstaller hit the headlines again in August 1993 when the news magazine Profil published sexist statements from the parliamentary interior committee that had fallen there two months earlier. The so-called " sucking affair" was triggered after Burgstaller is said to have thought of the Green Party MP Terezija Stoisits with the words "Put it in your mouth and suck it tight" when she took the floor and picked up the microphone. In the course of the following outrage, Burgstaller is said to have said that when he was asked to "put the thing in his mouth, he thought of an ice cream lolly": "A pig who thinks of a penis." Later, Burgstaller stated, he could not remember that this was said at all.

In a discussion with the chairman of the ÖVP parliamentary group Heinrich Neisser and the general secretary Ingrid Korosec , Burgstaller was introduced to the proposal to dispute the legal action in order to clarify the authorship of the statement. Burgstaller refused this, as well as an apology in the case of stoisits, and resigned from the ÖVP out of “consideration for the party”. In addition, he justified his step with "failures" of the vice-party leader Helga Rabl-Stadler against him. Burgstaller left the ÖVP club on September 7, 1993 and was a “wild member” in the National Council until November 6, 1994.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WirtschaftsBlatt , "Gert Schmidt:" We offer well over 30 million euros for the casinos "Gambling: Casinos Austria parted ways with eight arcades in the Czech Republic", October 16, 2007
  2. ↑ Paul Burgstaller . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1993 ( online - Aug. 30, 1993 ).
  3. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : “A strange exit from the ÖVP. Unexplained "sexist" derailment ”, September 1, 1993
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

literature

  • Upper Austrian news: "VP-Mann Paul Burgstaller: Uncomfortable to uninhibited", August 28, 1993

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personal data
SURNAME Burgstaller, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Red wine