Roland Horngacher

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Roland Horngacher (* January 28, 1960 ) is a former member of the Austrian constabulary federal police and carried as a state police commander of the state police command Wien use designation General . Since August 9, 2006, he was suspended from this position because of his role as a key figure in the abuse of office affair of the Vienna police . After a final conviction of 15 months in conditional imprisonment, he lost his civil service status in October 2008 at the same time as his job with the police.

Career history

After completing his law degree in 1984, he completed his judicial practice until 1986 and was also a trainee judge. After completing his military service , he was still in 1986 in the service of the Vienna Police Department added, where his first job which a speaker in the Commissariat Ottakring was. He held this position until the end of 1989, during which time he completed basic training at the Federal Administration Academy .

At the beginning of 1990, Horngacher switched to the economic police, where he rose to the position of head of this department by 2002, from assistant manager to assistant manager. In 2002 Horngacher was appointed head of the Vienna Criminal Police Office, where he was responsible for combating serious crime in Vienna.

With the amalgamation of the Federal Gendarmerie , the Federal Security Guard Corps and the Criminal Police Corps in July 2005, Horngacher was appointed State Police Commander of Vienna. He thus switched to the guard body as a police lawyer, which until then in Vienna was almost always led by officers who rose from it themselves and were considered "trained police officers", in contrast to Horngacher, who never had basic police training.

On February 12, 2007, Horngacher was suspended from work because of serious charges under civil service law and criminal law. This was one of the last official acts of Wolfgang Schüssel "three hours before his resignation as Federal Chancellor and Minister of the Interior". The then police chief Stiedl ruled out Horngacher's return to the police. On October 17, 2007, Horngacher was sentenced to a 15-month conditional prison sentence by a jury at the Vienna Criminal Court for abuse of office and violation of official secrecy. On July 22nd, 2008 it became known that the Supreme Court confirmed the guilty verdict and that it is now final.

On July 29, 2008 Horngacher announced that it would withdraw the appeal about his change of employment, from the state police commander post to a far lower valued one. In doing so, regardless of further judicial or disciplinary judgments, he cleared the way for a new tender for the Vienna State Police Commander.

On October 6th, 2008 it was published that the Higher Regional Court Vienna is not reducing the sentence of 15 months. The judgment is final. As a result, Horngacher lost his civil servant status and his work in the police by law ( Section 27 (1) 1 of the Criminal Code ).

Today Horngacher works as a legal advisor for a casino company.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Causa Horngacher: A chronology. Vorarlberg online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.vol.at  
  2. ^ ORF : Judgment against Horngacher confirmed , October 6, 2008
  3. ↑ Ex-Police Commander Roland Horngacher is now an advisor to the 'Concorde Card Casinos'
personal data
SURNAME Horngacher, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian police officer (State Police Commander of Vienna)
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1960