Rudolf Federspiel

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Rudolf Federspiel (born July 26, 1949 in Zams ) is an Austrian travel agent and politician ( ÖVP / FPÖ ). Federspiel was a member of the Tyrolean state parliament from 2003 to 2008 and from 2013 to 2018 .

education and profession

Rudi Federspiel attended elementary school in Kappl from 1955 to 1959 and then from 1959 to 1963 the secondary school in Zirl . He then switched to high school, where he passed his Matura in 1968. Federspiel then studied business administration from 1970 . In 1974 he passed the travel agency license exam, and in 1976 the tour guide license exam .

Federspiel was managing director of the travel agency "F & F" between 1974 and 1983 and between 1984 and 1994 managing director of the travel agency "Insider". He has been a full-time politician since 1994.

politics

Federspiel was a member of the Innsbruck municipal council from 1989 to 1992 . He then worked as a city councilor in the state capital until 2000, after which he moved back to Innsbruck's municipal council. In 1994 he initiated the Innsbruck Mountain New Year's Eve .

After his exclusion from the FPÖ , Federspiel founded the citizens' movement List FREI in 2000 and was placed on the ÖVP list for the Tyrolean state parliament under Governor Herwig van Staa . Federspiel was sworn in as a member of the Tyrolean state parliament on October 21, 2003, after he had been elected in the state elections in 2003 through the state election proposal of the ÖVP. He was then a member of the committees for federalism and European integration as well as economy, tourism and technology. Federspiel is known for his calls for stricter surveillance measures in the state capital Innsbruck and his right-wing populist migration policy.

In 2006 he ran as mayoral candidate against Marie-Luise Pokorny-Reitter, Eugen Sprenger, Georg Willi and Hilde Zach in Innsbruck's municipal council elections and was able to double his mandate, but did not receive enough votes to get a seat in the city senate.

Federspiel resigned from the state parliament on July 1, 2008, after he had not received a secure place on the list for the 2008 state elections in Tyrol . He entered the municipal council elections in Innsbruck in April 2012 for the third time with his own list of citizens and won 3 seats. In autumn 2012, Federspiel was accepted back into the FPÖ and appeared in the state elections in 2013 as a top candidate in the regional constituency of Innsbruck as well as in second place on the state list, whereupon he moved back into the state parliament and worked there as club chairman of the Freedom Party after Gerald Hauser left . Since the state party congress in 2013, he has held the function of deputy state party chairman within the party and since April 2016 that of Innsbruck city party chairman. After the state elections in Tyrol in 2018 , he left the state parliament.

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Individual evidence

  1. ORF Tirol state election: at least 13 members resign, May 15, 2008