Robert Lichal

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Robert Lichal (born July 9, 1932 in Vienna ) is a retired Austrian politician ( ÖVP ).

Life

Robert Lichal passed his Matura in 1950 and then became a state official in Lower Austria . As a working student he studied law , in 1965 he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . As a so-called white vintage , he did not have to do military service.

He was politically active as an ÖAAB member in the public service union ( ÖGB ). From 1987 to 1991 he was federal chairman of the ÖAAB.

Lichal was a member of the Federal Council from 1976 to 1979 . From 1979 to 1987 he was a member of the National Council . From 1987 to 1990 he was Minister of Defense . During his tenure, the structure of the militia was enshrined in the constitution and Austria's armed forces received guided weapons . From 1990 to 1994 he was again a member of the National Council and Second President of the National Council .

Robert Lichal is a member of the Catholic student associations Ö.kaV Rhaeto-Danubia Vienna and K.Ö.HV Franco-Bavaria Vienna, both in the ÖCV , as well as the Catholic student association K.ö.St.V. Austria Purkersdorf in the MKV .

Oerlikon scandal

In 1987, according to a report by the news magazine Profil, it became known that Lichal had placed an order for 50,000 pieces of tracer ammunition for anti-aircraft guns worth 35 million schillings to the Swiss producer Oerlikon-Bührle , although the French supplier Matra Manurhin Defense had an offer for 15 million Schilling had submitted. At the time the contract was awarded, the armed forces had adequate ammunition reserves for 2 years. Lichal had instructed the armed forces at least three times to ignore the cheaper offer from Matra. In 1988 a preliminary investigation into abuse of office was initiated and the house of Lichal, his secretary Michael Spindelegger and Walter Schön, the then Oerlikon general representative in Austria , were searched . Lichal and Schön were close friends and, like Spindelegger, were members of the Cartell Association . A note with the note "Spindelegger: 1: party financing; two million; 2: order volume: 35 million" was found at Schön . The public prosecutor suspected that party funding for the ÖVP was prohibited, whereupon the non-party, but ÖVP-affiliated Justice Minister Egmont Foregger initiated disciplinary proceedings against the investigating public prosecutor and transferred the case to the senior public prosecutor, which closed the investigation in 1990.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Politicians in the Armed Forces - Unfit, unwilling, indispensable . Article from January 17, 2013, accessed October 25, 2015.
  2. ^ The ammunition affair from the archives , Der Standard, May 17, 2011
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel: Lilac bush for the wife , January 15, 1990

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personal data
SURNAME Lichal, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna