Robert Lugar

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Robert Lugar (2016)

Robert Lugar (born July 9, 1970 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian politician and self-employed entrepreneur. He started his political career in the FPÖ . In 2008 he moved to the BZÖ and moved to the Austrian National Council in 2008 until he left in 2011. In 2012 he switched to Team Stronach and was re-elected as a member of the National Council in 2013, temporarily as club chairman . In August 2017 he left the Stronach team's parliamentary club and switched back to the FPÖ. After the National Council election in 2019 , he resigned from the National Council.

education and profession

Lugar attended elementary and secondary school in Innsbruck from 1976 to 1984 and then attended the polytechnic course until 1985. Lugar completed his apprenticeship between 1985 and 1989 at Stadtwerke Innsbruck as an electrician. From 1989 to 1990 he did military service and until 1992 was a regular soldier and member of the national judo team at the federal sports center in Südstadt. Between 1993 and 1999 he was a technical employee in Baden . From 1995 he attended the higher technical federal teaching and research institute Wiener Neustadt for electrical engineering in Wiener Neustadt , where he graduated in 2000 with the Matura. Lugar also studied political science, journalism and communication studies between 2001 and 2003, albeit without a degree.

Lugar set up his own company in the field of water treatment in Sooss in 1999 .

politics

Lugar joined the FPÖ Baden in 1999 and was a member of its board from 2000. In 2001 he was elected district chairman of the Ring of Freedom Economists (RFW), and in 2002 he became regional chairman of the RFW Lower Austria. In addition, from 2003 Lugar was deputy district chairman of the FPÖ Baden and between 2004 and 2006 worked for the Freedom Academy in the training area. In the course of the split in the FPÖ, Lugar joined the BZÖ and ran for this party in the 2008 National Council election .

He was sworn in on October 28, 2008 as a member of parliament for the constituency of Lower Austria. In the BZÖ parliamentary club, Lugar held the position of area spokesman for environment and economy. On September 14, 2011, he announced his resignation from the BZÖ, but remained a wild member of the National Council.

In August 2012, Lugar announced that he would be moving to the Stronach team of industrialist Frank Stronach , for which he also stood in the 2013 National Council election. He was also the party's club chairman from November 2012 to October 2013, until he was replaced by Kathrin Nachbaur . From February 2015 he was the leader of the Stronach team in the parliamentary Hypo committee of inquiry . From August 2015 to August 2017 he was again club chairman, replacing club chairwoman Waltraud Dietrich .

Lugar caused a sensation when, in an emotional speech in parliament on March 16, 2016, in the course of the refugee crisis in Europe, he disparagingly compared the worldview of many refugees with that of Neanderthals . Greens and NEOS then demanded his resignation.

At the beginning of August 2017, Lugar resigned from his position as club chairman, which means that the party only had four members and thus lost club status in parliament with the simultaneous resignation of Team Stronach MP Martina Schenk . Just two days after leaving the Stronach team, Lugar was presented by Heinz-Christian Strache as a candidate for the FPÖ federal list for the 2017 National Council election . This caused quite a stir, and Strache described Lugar in 2012 as "Once a traitor, always a traitor" after he, as a former FPÖ functionary, changed sides again when he switched to the Stronach team.

Lugar has been a local councilor in Perchtoldsdorf since 2020 .

Private

Robert Lugar is married and has two children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at: Lugar and Schenk leave the Stronach team . Article dated August 9, 2017, accessed August 9, 2017.
  2. ^ Christian Böhmer: Robert Lugar goes to the FPÖ. kurier.at, August 10, 2017, accessed on August 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Lugar is going "wild": BZÖ loses mandate again , Diepresse.com , September 14, 2011. Accessed on September 14, 2011.
  4. ↑ Stronach brings in Robert Lugar the third member of parliament - the next election is fixed. In: derstandard.at. August 23, 2012. Retrieved August 23, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt: Hypo-U Committee: All facts, all names - all hope ( Memento from March 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated February 24, 2015, accessed March 7, 2015.
  6. ↑ derStandard.at - Stronach confirms: Lugar becomes club chairman . Article dated August 4, 2015, accessed August 4, 2015.
  7. ↑ derStandard.at: Neos and Greens demand the resignation of Stronach club chairman Lugar . Article dated March 17, 2016, accessed May 17, 2018.
  8. ↑ derStandard.at: Lugar and Schenk resign, Team Stronach loses club status . Article dated August 9, 2017, accessed August 13, 2017.
  9. ↑ derStandard.at: Strache presents FPÖ federal list with Lugar in eighth place . Article dated August 11, 2017, accessed August 13, 2017.
  10. ↑ derStandard.at: Political defectors: From love to betrayal . Article dated August 13, 2017, accessed August 13, 2017.
  11. ↑ parlament.gv.at Parliament correspondence No. 829, October 28, 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Lugar, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (TS, BZÖ, FPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck