Reinhold Mitterlehner

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Reinhold Mitterlehner (2019)

Reinhold Mitterlehner (born December 10, 1955 in Helfenberg ) is a former Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) who served as Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria from 2014 to 2017 . From 2008 to 2017 he was Minister of Economic Affairs and from 2013 also responsible for science and research. After the resignation of the then Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann , Mitterlehner carried out the business of the head of government on an interim basis from 9 to 17 May 2016, i.e. until Christian Kern was sworn in.

From 2014 until his resignation in May 2017, he was federal party leader of the ÖVP. Between 2002 and 2017 he was district party leader of the ÖVP in his home district of Rohrbach .

education and profession

Reinhold Mitterlehner grew up in Ahorn , attended elementary school in Helfenberg from 1962 to 1966 and then switched to the Realgymnasium in Rohrbach , where he graduated from high school in 1974. Mitterlehner then did military service from 1974 to 1975 and began studying law at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz in 1974 . In 1980 Mitterlehner completed his studies with the academic degree Dr. iur. from. In 1990 he completed the post-graduate course for association management in Freiburg im Üechtland .

After completing his studies, Mitterlehner completed his court internship in Linz in 1980 and was then employed between 1980 and 1992 in the Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce as a department head in marketing. From 1992 to 2000 he was managing director of the Austrian Economic Association . From 2000 to 2008 he was Deputy General Secretary of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce.

Mitterlehner started his own company in September 2017. In accordance with the articles of association, Mitterlehner offers "management consulting, strategy consulting and internationalization consulting". Since the end of 2017 he has been a member of the supervisory board of Oberösterreichische Versicherung and since 2019, as the successor to Leo Windtner, chairman of the supervisory board.

At the end of June 2018, he was elected President of the Austrian Research Foundation (ÖFG) to succeed Karlheinz Töchterle .

politics

Mitterlehner was a member of the Ahorn municipal council between 1991 and 1997 and was elected district party chairman of the ÖVP Rohrbach in 2002.

Mitterlehner has been a member of the Austrian National Council since February 8, 2000 and since 2001, with one interruption, chairman of the parliamentary economic committee.

On November 24, 2008 Mitterlehner was presented by the then managing ÖVP party chairman Josef Pröll as the future Federal Minister for Economics, Family and Youth and on December 2, 2008 Faymann I was sworn in together with the other members of the federal government . After the elections in September 2013, Mitterlehner was again sworn in as Federal Minister by Federal President Heinz Fischer on December 16, 2013. In the Faymann II federal government , Mitterlehner's business agendas were joined by the science and research department. A separate ministry was set up for family agendas under Family Minister Sophie Karmasin .

After Michael Spindelegger's surprising resignation as finance minister, vice chancellor and ÖVP chairman on August 26, 2014, Mitterlehner was unanimously appointed federal party chairman of the Austrian People's Party and vice chancellor on the same day. On September 1, 2014, he was sworn in as Vice Chancellor and on November 8, at the ÖVP federal party conference, he was elected federal party leader of the ÖVP with 99.1 percent of the delegate's votes.

On May 10, 2017, Mitterlehner announced that he would resign both as federal party leader of the ÖVP and from his offices as minister and vice chancellor. He named the date May 15, 2017. His successor, initially designated ÖVP chairman, became Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz on May 14, 2017 , who immediately called for new elections but refused to take over the office of Vice Chancellor in the government. After a conversation with Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen , Mitterlehner agreed on May 15, 2017 that he would initially continue to exercise his government offices until his successor in the federal government was clarified. On May 17, 2017, Justice Minister Wolfgang Brandstetter was sworn in as Mitterlehner's successor as Vice Chancellor. The then State Secretary Harald Mahrer took over the business, science and research agendas.

Political opinions

Social policy

According to the media and analysts, Mitterlehner has unusually liberal views for a chairman of the ÖVP, which strikingly distinguish him from his predecessor Spindelegger. Shortly after taking office, he started a broad-based liberalization and modernization process in his party, also in view of the competitive pressure of the new bourgeois-liberal party of the NEOS . The ÖVP is to become “younger and more feminine”, for example with a “zipper system” for women on the list. Against great opposition from the Catholic Church and the Christian conservative wing, he pushed through pre-implantation diagnostics and artificial insemination for homosexual couples in the National Council in January 2015. Mitterlehner also caused a sensation with statements: At a club conference of the ÖVP in January 2015, he described Austria as a “secular and multicultural society”, and Islam was part of it, whereby Mitterlehner also distinguished himself from political Islamism . Mitterlehner no longer wants to lead a discussion about the deadline solution ; in an interview with the bourgeois daily newspaper Die Presse , he describes this topic as "done throughout Europe". He keeps his distance from the Catholic Church: he is an “active Christian”, but the ÖVP is not a “branch of the official church”. In contrast to his predecessor, Mitterlehner also wants to talk about other variations of schools beyond the grammar school - such as the comprehensive school - but there is no complete change of course to the comprehensive school either.

Health policy

After long resistance from the economic association to a smoking ban in the catering sector, Mitterlehner supported a general smoking ban in 2015 as the first party chairman of the ÖVP. Following an amendment to the Tobacco Act, such a ban should come into force from May 2018. However, the already decided smoking ban in the catering trade was stopped again shortly before the planned entry into force by the subsequent ÖVP-FPÖ federal government. On November 1, 2019, the ban on smoking in restaurants came into effect due to a new resolution by the National Council.

Private

Mitterlehner is a member of the Catholic academic association Austro-Danubia Linz ( couleurn name Django ) in the ÖCV and the MKV association K.Ö.St.V. Mühlgau Rohrbach .

The bank manager Andreas Mitterlehner was his brother.

Publications

  • 2019: Attitude: Showing the flag in life and politics , Ecowin / Benevento Publishing, Elsbethen near Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7110-0239-6

honors and awards

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Web links

Commons : Reinhold Mitterlehner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Don't mess around” - Mitterlehner threatens the end of the coalition. In: Upper Austrian news . September 30, 2015, accessed September 30, 2015 .
  2. ^ Kurier: Mitterlehner becomes head of the supervisory board of Upper Austria Insurance . Article dated February 1, 2019, accessed February 2, 2019.
  3. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Mitterlehner becomes head of supervision in Upper Austria insurance . Article dated February 1, 2019, accessed February 2, 2019.
  4. ^ In Upper Austria: Supervisory board job for ex-Vice Chancellor Mitterlehner. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Reinhold Mitterlehner elected as the new President of the Austrian Research Association . OTS bulletin of July 3, 2018, accessed July 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ Mitterlehner at handover: Strengthening science and research, exploring new opportunities. APA-OTS , December 16, 2014, accessed January 10, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Hellin Sapinski: "Record": Mitterlehner with 99.1 percent new ÖVP boss. DiePresse.com , November 8, 2014, accessed January 10, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Salzburger Nachrichten : [1] , May 10, 2017
  9. ↑ Oliver Pink : Mitterlehner's Neo Party. In: The press. May 10, 2015, accessed June 11, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Dietmar Neuwirth: ÖVP - Church: A difficult long-term relationship. In: The press. February 12, 2015, accessed June 11, 2015 .
  11. ^ Ronald Posch: ÖVP exam: "Islam is part of our society". In: The press. January 19, 2015, accessed June 11, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Oliver Pink: Mitterlehner: "SPÖ just doesn't watch how we distinguish ourselves". In: The press. February 11, 2015, accessed June 11, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Comprehensive school: Mitterlehner wants to "move discourse in another direction". In: Tiroler Tageszeitung online edition. December 9, 2014, accessed March 8, 2020 .
  14. ^ Gernot Bauer : ÖVP: Conservative resistance to Mitterlehner's liberal course. In: Profile. January 14, 2015, accessed June 11, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Smoking ban in restaurants from May 2018. In: DiePresse.com . April 10, 2015, accessed June 11, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Resolve the smoking ban . In: profil.at . March 22, 2018 ( profil.at [accessed November 14, 2018]).
  17. ↑ National Council fixes smoking ban in restaurants from November 2019. Accessed on September 21, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Dietmar Mascher: Django is deeply rooted in Rohrbach. In: Upper Austrian news. August 28, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2017 .
  19. ↑ posture. Retrieved April 17, 2019 .
  20. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
  21. ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 29, 2016 N 29 “On Awarding the State Awards of the Russian Federation” (Russian)
  22. ↑ Rosa “Handtaschl” goes to the Minister of Economics . In: derstandard.at of February 1, 2009, accessed on April 21, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Mitterlehner, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council a. D., Vice Chancellor (ÖVP)
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Helfenberg