Peter Oberlehner

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Peter Oberlehner (2017)

Peter Oberlehner (born June 29, 1960 in Grieskirchen , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). He has been mayor of the Pötting community in the Grieskirchen district in Upper Austria since 1997 . From December 2013 to September 2018 he was a member of the Federal Council , and has been a member of the Upper Austrian State Parliament since September 2018 .

Life

Peter Oberlehner attended primary school in Pötting and the Episcopal Gymnasium Petrinum in Linz , where he graduated from high school in 1979 .

Parallel to his later political career, Oberlehner was also active in sports. He played fistball and was also used in the Austrian national fistball team. In 1984 he was part of the team that brought the European championship title to Austria. He was also Vice European Champion in 1991 and Vice World Champion in 1990 and 1992. Oberlehner was also six times Austrian national champion in fistball. In 2012 he was elected Vice President of the Austrian Fistball Association.

After his military service Oberlehner began in 1982 working in the personnel department in the Office of the Upper Austria pean state government where he is Deputy Chairman of the Central Staff Committee. In 1984 he and others founded the Young People's Party (JVP) in Pötting. Just a year later, at the age of 25, he entered the local council . After he took over the management of the ÖVP in Pötting in 1992, Oberlehner was elected mayor of the municipality of Pötting in 1997 .

In March 2013 Oberlehner took over the management of the ÖVP in the district of Grieskirchen , and in December he was sworn in as a member of the Federal Council in Vienna .

Since 2010 he has been Vice President of the Upper Austrian Association of Municipalities and since 2006 Chairman of the Federal Representation for the State Administration of the Public Service Union.

In September 2018 he was sworn in as the successor to Walter Aichinger as a member of the Upper Austrian state parliament . Anton Froschauer succeeded him in the Federal Council .

Oberlehner has been married since 1982 and has three children, two sons and a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Peter Oberlehner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Oberlehner is sworn in today in the state parliament . Article dated September 20, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018.