Rudolf Hundstorfer

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Rudolf Hundstorfer (2013)

Rudolf Hundstorfer (born September 19, 1951 in Vienna ; † August 20, 2019 in Brač , Croatia ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ), ÖGB - trade union official and from 2006 to 2008 president of the ÖGB. Hundstorfer was Federal Minister for Labor, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection from December 2008 to January 2016 . On November 4, 2016, he was elected President of the Austrian Federal Sports Organization (BSO). He ran for the 2016 federal presidential election , but failed in the first ballot.

Life

Hundstorfer was since 1966, after the completion of secondary school , the magistrate concerned the City of Vienna, where he also the profession of office merchant learned. Since the early 1970s he has been involved in the union of community workers (GdG), of which he was chairman from May 2003.

From 1990 he was also a member of the Vienna City Council and State Parliament, and from 1995 also Chairman of the City Council. After Hundstorfer was elected President of the ÖGB, he resigned from the Vienna State Parliament and City Council on January 25, 2007.

In October 2003, Hundstorfer became Vice President of the ÖGB . On March 27, 2006, following the resignation of Fritz Verzetnitsch in the course of the BAWAG affair , he took over the ÖGB presidency on an interim basis. After the federal congress of the ÖGB, which was supposed to take place in June 2006, was postponed to 2007, Hundstorfer became ÖGB president beyond June. After being designated Federal Minister for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection in the Faymann I government , he resigned from the office of ÖGB President. On December 1, 2008, Erich Foglar was elected as his designated successor by the ÖGB board.

On September 8, 2005, as a representative of all three BAWAG shareholders (trade union foundation, asset management and ÖGB), he personally signed that BAWAG's liabilities of 1.53 billion euros would be transferred to the ÖGB. Hundstorfer kept this silent until June 2006 and then justified himself when he was confronted by the media with his actions with the words: “I was sent there on very short notice to represent the then ÖGB President Verzetnitsch. I was not presented with an opening balance sheet, but all the auditors, the BAWAG management board and the supervisory board president were there, so I saw no reason to doubt the correctness of the resolutions and procedures. " Statement by Hundstorfer: "I cannot read everything that was presented to me for signature."

Rudolf Hundstorfer (2016)

On January 15, 2016, it was announced that he would be running for the 2016 federal presidential election . In the election on April 24th, as a candidate for the strongest party represented in parliament, he only achieved 11.28%, thus fourth place, and could no longer run for the runoff election.

On May 16, 2018, Volkshilfe in Vienna announced that Hundstorfer had been elected as the new chairman of the Viennese partial organization of welfare aid.

On August 20, 2019, he died of a heart attack on the Croatian island of Brač at the age of 67 .

He was buried on September 3, 2019 in a grave of honor of the City of Vienna in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 14C number 50). In November 2019, Hans Niessl was elected as his successor as President of the Austrian Federal Sports Organization (BSO). Karl Lacina took over his agendas as President of Volkshilfe Wien on an interim basis , and Michael Häupl was designated as his successor in August 2020 .

Grave of Rudolf Hundstorfer

Private

Hundstorfer was married for the third time. He leaves behind a daughter and two stepchildren.

criticism

In 2015 Hundstorfer was awarded the negative Big Brother Award in the Lifetime Award category, representing nominations in the past few years in the social area, for example for access by the Public Employment Service to information on the citizenship of its customers.

honors and awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rudolf Hundstorfer died . Die Presse on August 20, 2019, accessed on August 20, 2019.
  2. ↑ ORF at / Agencies red: 1951–2019: Rudolf Hundstorfer is dead. August 20, 2019, accessed on August 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hundstorfer elected the new BSO President , Der Standard of November 4, 2016, accessed on December 4, 2016
  4. ↑ Der Standard , June 16, 2006, article online .
  5. ↑ derStandard.at - Fix: Rudolf Hundstorfer goes into the presidential race for SPÖ . Article from January 15, 2016, accessed on January 15, 2016.
  6. ^ Official final result of the first ballot for the Federal President , Federal Ministry of the Interior April 2016, accessed on April 27, 2016.
  7. ^ Rudolf Hundstorfer new chairman of Volkshilfe Wien. In: kurier.at . May 16, 2018. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  8. ^ The younion union mourns Rudolf Hundstorfer. In: ots.at . August 20, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
  9. ^ Ex-ÖGB boss Rudolf Hundstorfer died in Croatia . Krone.at from August 20, 2019, accessed on August 20, 2019
  10. ^ Hundstorfer funeral on September 3rd. In: wien.ORF.at. August 27, 2019, accessed August 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Rudolf Hundstorfer buried. In: ORF.at . September 3, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .
  12. ^ Burgenland's ex-governor Niessl new BSO president. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . November 8, 2019, accessed November 8, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Ex-Mayor Häupl becomes President of Volkshilfe Wien. In: DerStandard.at . August 25, 2020, accessed August 26, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Michael Häupl becomes the new President of Volkshilfe Wien. August 25, 2020, accessed August 26, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Big Brother Awards go to Mikl-Leitner and Facebook . In: derstandard.at . October 25, 2015, accessed October 25, 2015.
  16. ↑ Lots of medals for politicians before the Opera Ball . Article in the Wiener Zeitung on January 24, 2012.
  17. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).

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personal data
SURNAME Hundstorfer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian trade union official and politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the national council
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 2019
Place of death on Brač , Croatia