Pius Strobl

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Pius Strobl (born June 28, 1956 in Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian entrepreneur , former politician and media manager . He was a co-founder of the party Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative and company spokesman for Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF).

Political and professional career

First, Pius Strobl got involved with the SPÖ . Among other things, he belonged to the group of young politicians around Josef Cap , who at the SPÖ party congress in 1982 brought three questions to the then Burgenland Governor Theodor Kery .

Later he was instrumental in founding the Austrian Greens. Even before the party was founded, he coordinated Freda Meissner-Blau's 1986 election campaign for the election of the Austrian Federal President.

He participated in the founding congress of the party on 13./14. February 1987 in Klagenfurt and was initially press officer. Together with Johannes Voggenhuber , he served as one of two federal managing directors of the Greens from 1988 to 1990 .

At the end of 1990 he withdrew from professional politics and moved to Günter Kerbler's real estate group as a member of the board of Conwert Immobilien Invest . However, he remained part-time with the Greens as regional manager Burgenland.

Strobl left Conwert AG in 1996 and founded an event and marketing agency. Well-known projects of this company were, for example, the Vienna Ice Dream , the Christmas market on Vienna's Spittelberg or as a pioneer in the public viewing area before the European Football Championship in 2008 .

ORF career

From 1989 to 1998 Pius Strobl sat for the Greens on the ORF board of trustees. His abstention made it possible for Gerd Bacher to be elected general manager of the ORF in 1990 . In 1994 he supported Gerhard Zeiler , in 1998 Gerhard Weis . Strobl's time on the Board of Trustees ended in 1999, followed by Sonja Puntscher-Riekmann .

In 2004, Strobl moved again to the ORF supervisory body, which was now called the Board of Trustees. He succeeds Wolfgang Zinggl and, as in the first period, was the only Board of Trustees nominated by the Greens. In the ORF election, he supported Alexander Wrabetz , who became the new general director (together with the board of trustees closely related to the SPÖ and FPÖ ) .

Wrabetz subsequently made Strobl the station's head of communications and marketing. Strobl was considered Wrabetz's most important confidante. In November 2010 he resigned from all offices at ORF as part of a bugging affair: he had commissioned an employee to record conversations between journalists and directors without their knowledge during a meeting of the foundation board. In the course of his departure, other allegations were made against him, primarily aimed at incompatibilities between Strobl's economic interests and his profession.

After his departure, Strobl is again working as a freelance entrepreneur and consultant, also on a consultant basis for ORF. He implemented the HD conversion of programs, the chip card exchange for the encrypted reception of the ORF offer and in 2015 he was in charge of organizing the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna.

At the end of 2015 Strobl became the ORF security officer and also took over the client's representation for the renovation and new construction of the ORF center as well as the agendas for optimizing the construction planning. In this context, the office of the media location was newly created, the head of which is Strobl.

Life

Pius Strobl grew up as an orphan with his grandmother and worked as a gendarme before starting his political career. In 1991, during his time as Burgenland's state manager of the Greens, he was briefly detained several times by the military police because he refused to give his order. Strobl was eventually sentenced to three months in prison for refusing to do military service.

He was in a relationship with the ORF presenter Eva Pölzl , with whom he has a son. Strobl has two children from a previous marriage.

Web links

Commons : Pius Strobl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Pius Strobl appointed head of the ORF facility management - der.ORF.at . In: der.ORF.at . ( orf.at [accessed September 28, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b c Wrabetz's most important man leaves the ORF . In: The Standard . November 19, 2010
  3. ↑ Green Burgenland: History of the Green Burgenland ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / burgenland.gruene.at
  4. ↑ Interview by Pius Strobl . In: Club career
  5. ↑ Causa wiretapping on ORF: PR boss Strobl takes his hat . In: Kronen Zeitung . November 19, 2010
  6. ↑ Doris Priesching: "It's over ...": Head of Communications Pius Strobl resigns . In: The Standard . November 19, 2010
  7. ↑ Isabella Wallnöfer: Scenes from an ORF crisis: Pius Strobl leaves the station . In: The press . November 19, 2010
  8. ^ Pius Strobl: The networking artist Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of January 27, 2015, accessed on June 26, 2016
  9. ↑ Pius Strobl becomes ORF security officer. profil.at, December 3, 2015, accessed on February 8, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Pius Strobl takes over client representation for the new ORF location. derstandard.at, November 4, 2015, accessed on February 8, 2018 .
  11. ↑ "Office of the media location" set up under the direction of Strobl. In: Planning stop for renovation and new construction of the ORF center canceled. derstandard.at, February 17, 2016, accessed on February 8, 2018 .
  12. ↑ APA Annual Review 1991 (Domestic Policy), December 9, 1991 (APA0028 5 II 0405)
  13. ^ ORF couple Eva Pölzl and Pius Strobl split up , derstandard.at
personal data
SURNAME Strobl, Pius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur and politician (The Greens)
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria