Petr Baxant

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Petr "Peko" Baxant

Petr "Peko" Baxant (born February 3, 1977 in Karlsbad , Czechoslovakia ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ), member of the Vienna State Parliament and member of the Vienna City Council and President of the Vienna Basketball Association .

School and professional career

After emigrating from Czechoslovakia in 1984, Petr "Peko" Baxant attended the elementary school of the Komensky School Association (1984–1986), the elementary school on Herderplatz (Vienna-Simmering) and then the Bundesrealgymnasium Klosterneuburg , which he graduated in 1996 with the Matura . After doing civilian service as an emergency paramedic at the Red Cross Klosterneuburg in 1997/98, he worked as a volunteer emergency paramedic for two more years, during which Baxant completed the college for multimedia between 1998 and 2000 and completed the diploma project Tape.at (virtual label for electronic music ) from. From 2000 to 2001 he attended the course for computer music and electronic media at the Electroacoustic Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . Baxant has been studying political science at the University of Vienna since 2000 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2011.

After graduating from school in 1996, Baxant worked as a freelance sound designer, composer and camera and lighting assistant in the advertising and film industry between 1997 and 2001, in addition to his further training. He got involved with Greenpeace Germany and founded the AG EUattac as part of attac Austria. Baxant has also been involved in civil society in the IG-Eurovision initiative since 2000. From 2006 to 2008 he was managing director of the SPÖ-Mariahilf. From March 2004 to April 2011 he was youth coordinator of the SPÖ Vienna. From 2012 to 2016 managing director of the Social Democratic Business Association Vienna.

Political career

Petr "Peko" Baxant became involved in the board of the Socialist Youth in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus from 2001 , where he temporarily held the position of deputy chairman. Since 2006 he has been active in the SPÖ-Mariahilf, whose district party chair he has been since 2013. On November 18, 2005 he was sworn in as a member of the SPÖ in the Vienna State Parliament and thus also became a member of the Vienna City Council. Baxant is a member of the Association of Social Democratic Freedom Fighters and a member of the Christianity and Social Democracy Working Group (ACUS).

As the youth election campaign manager of the SPÖ Vienna, Baxant drew attention to himself with the youth campaign “Ich bin Wien”, in which he inspired important personalities for the election campaign. So he was able to convince the boxer Gogi Knezevic not to support the FPÖ, but the SPÖ. Furthermore, together with the Austrian rapper Nazar, he is responsible for the YouTube video “Meine Stadt”, in which artists such as Chakuza, Kamp & Raf Camora also appeared. Under the direction of Baxant, the SPÖ Vienna and the Austrian DJ Federation produced a rap collabo song with video under the motto “I am Vienna”. The hip-hop magazine The Message supported the project in the form of a media cooperation. In addition to the Viennese dialect rappers A.Geh and Dauawizzy from the Rooftop Clique, Funke and Deph Joe were represented together on one track for the first time since their band "Die Symbiose" broke up. Also with them are MAdoppelT from Floridsdorf, Deputy Director of Herbe Mixture, the Viennese Balkan rapper Kid Pex and Nora MC & Mag-D from Vienna's female MC combo MTS. Katharina Schiehsl contributed the chorus, DJ Crum was responsible for the cuts and the production came from the Highenders (Björn Lentföhr, Jonas Wachholz, Alexander Clarenz) in cooperation with Hertz & Kopf.

Baxant initiated the Vienna Cage Championship in 2009.

As the youth election campaign leader of the SPÖ-Vienna, Baxant was in the intense fight against the FPÖ and Heinz-Christian Strache for the votes of the first and young voters in Vienna.

He caused a stir in the Vienna election campaign in 2010 in view of the strength of the right-wing populist FPÖ with the statement:

“ It's like the battle of Stalingrad : either we fight back the Nazis or they roll over us. "

- Petr Baxant : The standard

Since 2000, Baxant has been committed to democratic innovations in the European Union, Austria, the city of Vienna and within the SPÖ. At the federal and state level he advocates "complementary democracy".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Standard : Youth Election Campaign in Vienna: Sex and Hard Sayings , September 9, 2010
  2. ↑ Der Standard : Stalingrad comparison: FP wants SP-Baxant to resign , September 10, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Baxant, Petr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baxant, Peko (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlovy Vary , Czechoslovakia