Peter Rosenstingl

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Peter Rosenstingl (born September 6, 1951 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian politician ( FPÖ ). Rosenstingl was a member of the National Council from 1990 to 1998 .

education and profession

Rosenstingl attended elementary school between 1957 and 1961 and then secondary school from 1961 to 1965. He then learned the trade of industrial clerk from 1965 to 1968 and did military service in 1970. Rosenstingl worked from 1968 to 1978 as an employee with training in tax law and from 1978 was authorized signatory in a tax consultancy firm. In 1981 he started his own business as an entrepreneur.

politics

Rosenstingl began his political career from 1990 to 1993 as a local councilor in Gießhübl and from 1992 to 1998 he held the function of regional party chairman of the FPÖ Lower Austria. From 1989 to 1998 he was provincial chairman of the Ring of Freedom Economists of Lower Austria (RFW), from 1991 to 1998 federal deputy chairman of the RFW and from 1990 councilor of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Rosenstingl represented the FPÖ from November 5, 1990 to May 10, 1998 in the National Council and was traffic spokesman and treasurer of the FPÖ parliamentary club. He was then until September 30, 1998, until his mandate was withdrawn, a non-club member.

"Rosenstingl Affair"

After losing over a hundred million schillings in his brother's company and the bankruptcy of his chartered accountant firm, Rosenstingl moved to Brazil on April 28, 1998. Within the FPÖ, references to Rosenstingl's goings-on had been ignored for a long time. Heinrich Haltmeyer , the then vice regional party leader in Lower Austria, informed Haider and the party secretary general Walter Meischberger of his concerns about Rosenstingl and was removed from his offices shortly afterwards. An official working as a lawyer at a bank stated in an affidavit that he had already given a reference to Rosenstingl's malversations in 1997. The then Lower Austrian regional party leader Gratzer then removed the whistleblower from his functions. After his disappearance became public on May 3rd in connection with initial reports on fraud, the FPÖ reacted on May 4th by removing Rosenstingl from all his political functions. Shortly afterwards, the Ring of Freedom Business Drivers of Lower Austria, whose regional chairman Rosenstingl had been, discovered during an audit that several million schillings were missing. In addition, during the audit of the FPÖ party fund, the lack of further funds was discovered. As a result, the FPÖ ruled Rosenstingl out of the party on May 7, 1998, and Rosenstingl himself was arrested on June 5, 1998 with his escapee in Fortaleza . Lengthy extradition negotiations followed, which ended on June 19, 1999 with Rosenstingl's transfer to Vienna. After his extradition, Rosenstingl was taken into custody and the trial against him was opened on December 14, 1999. After 24 days of trial at the Vienna Regional Court, he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for serious commercial fraud and breach of trust with total damage of ATS 51.5 million. On February 19, 2002, Rosenstingl was released from custody due to a "progressive heart disease" due to unfit for prison sentence.

The Rosenstingl affair led to a political earthquake and drew wide circles within the FPÖ of Lower Austria. Bernhard Gratzer , regional party leader of the FPÖ Lower Austria, had to resign from all his offices, while Erich Schreiner , Member of the National Council of the FPÖ from Lower Austria, resigned his mandate in May 1998. He was also professionally connected to Rosenstingl through two companies. Also Hermann Mentil , Finance Officer of the FPÖ Lower Austria, first put back his National Council mandate, but did not want to completely do without it. He was eventually expelled from the FPÖ and was a “wild” member of the National Council for a year.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WirtschaftsBlatt : “Five-member ÖBB board from August. Helmut Draxler remains chairman - Hoser, Stindl new ”, May 24, 1997
  2. ^ Walter Ötsch: Haider light. Handbook for demagogy. Czernin Verlag, Vienna: 2000, p. 155
  3. ↑ Basler Zeitung : “Head rolls among the« Freedom »”, May 14, 1998
  4. ^ Upper Austrian news : FP-Bauernopfer: Schreiner, May 13, 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Rosenstingl, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna