Ring Freedom Business Owner

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The Freedom Economy (FW) or the Ring Freedom Economist (RfW) is an Austrian business association and represents the interests of the Freedom Party of Austria in the Austrian Chamber of Commerce .

Federal chairman is Matthias Krenn , who is also Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce. Federal Managing Director is Ernst Lengauer.

history

It was founded on November 14, 1959. In the constituent general assembly, Karl Bartsch (chairman), Hans Rader, Emil van Tongel and Willfried Gredler were elected to the federal board. In the following years, regional organizations were founded in all federal states. At the beginning of the 1980s, the then RfW was involved in the development of the FPÖ economic concept Liberal Market Economy 90 under the then federal party leader Norbert Steger . 1985 saw the first nationwide candidacy for the Chamber of Commerce elections. In 1990 important successes were achieved nationwide with 14.8%, and in 1995 even with 21.3%. In the last Chamber of Commerce elections in 2015, the RfW was the third-strongest force nationwide with 9.4%, but was able to maintain second place in the federal states of Carinthia , Upper Austria , Styria and Tyrol . In Vorarlberg , the RfW ran together with the Wirtschaftsbund as part of the Vorarlberger Wirtschaft electoral community .

Alignment

According to the statutes, the association's goals are to maintain the principles of economic freedom, private initiative and free competition as well as guaranteeing the inviolability of property. Furthermore, the maintenance of a healthy middle class , the implementation of a balanced financial economy, relief and reduction of bureaucracy are required.

National organizations

Name (abbreviation) Chairman Website
FW Burgenland Franz Stefan Haider https://www.fw.at/bgld/
FW Carinthia Mayor of KommR Matthias Krenn https://www.fw.at/ktn/
FW Lower Austria GR Reinhard Langthaler https://www.fw.at/noe/
FW Upper Austria NAbg. Mayor KommR Ing. Wolfgang Klinger https://www.fw.at/ooe/
FW Salzburg NAbg. Ing. Christian Pewny https://www.fw.at/sbg/
FW Styria KommR Dr. Erich Schoklitsch https://www.fw.at/stmk/
FWTirol KommR Winfried Vescoli https://www.fw.at/tirol/
FW Vorarlberg KommR Ing. Eduard Fischer https://www.fw.at/vbg/
FW Vienna Walter Ronny (designated) https://www.fw.at/wien/

Federal management / federal chairman

  • 1959–1960 Karl Bartsch (1911–2002), brickworks owner
  • 1960–1965 Hans Rader (1920–1965), businessman
  • 1965–1971 Ernst Walch (1919–2004), businessman
  • 1971–1975 Harald Prinzhorn (1914–1979), paper industrialist
  • 1975–1977 Georg Hanreich (* 1939), technician, craftsman
  • 1977–1979 Rupert Schiffrer (1924–2004), businessman
  • 1979–1988 Hermann Eigruber (1930–2013), technician
  • 1988–1998 Helmut Haigermoser (* 1940), businessman
  • 1998–2004 Maximilian Hofmann (* 1954), technician
  • 2004–2014 Fritz Amann (* 1950), electrical engineer
  • since 2014: Matthias Krenn (* 1960), hotelier

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Head of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved November 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Lengauer Ernst | Federation. Retrieved November 5, 2018 (American English).
  3. ↑ WKO elections: Economic Association with a two-thirds majority - derStandard.at. Retrieved November 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Vorarlberg entrepreneurs have a choice in March 2015 . In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten | VN.AT . ( vn.at [accessed on November 5, 2018]).
  5. ↑ RfW 50 Years of the Ring of Liberal Businesspeople ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.7 MB) 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rfw-ktn.com
  6. ^ The foundation of the RfW took place in 1959 and was represented by the following federal chairmen. RFW homepage, accessed November 14, 2015