Rudolf Vouk

Rudolf Vouk (2008)

Rudolf "Rudi" Vouk (born March 19, 1965 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian lawyer , former politician and a member of the Slovene-speaking ethnic group in Carinthia .

After graduating from the federal high school for Slovenes , he studied law at the University of Vienna and began working as a lawyer in Carinthia. In particular, he campaigned for the rights of the Carinthian Slovenes.

As part of these political activities, Vouk was elected to the Presidium of the Enotna Lista in 1991 . From 1997 he was a councilor in Eberndorf . In 1999 Vouk became the executive chairman of the Council of Carinthian Slovenes . From 2000 to 2003 he was chairman of the national assembly of the Council of Carinthian Slovenes, from 2003 its deputy chairman. In these functions, Vouk obtained numerous decisions from the Constitutional Court and other bodies on how to deal with the Slovenian-speaking minority in Carinthia in accordance with the law.

Vouk achieved Austria-wide fame in the place-name sign dispute , in which he obtained the Constitutional Court to recognize a place-name sign of St. Kanzian am Klopeiner See as illegal because of its monolingualism.

With Vouk as the top candidate for Carinthia, the LIF received 1.5% of the vote in the 2008 National Council election .

Rudolf Vouk is married and has two daughters.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait on ORF.at, July 30, 2008
2. ↑ Election 2008 ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Ministry of the Interior