Andrä Rupprechte

Andrä Rupprechte, 2014

Andrä Rupprechte (born May 31, 1961 in Brandenberg ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). He was Minister for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management from 2013 to 2017 .

Life

Rupprecht, the eleventh child of a Tyrolean farming family, studied agricultural economics at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna . After working as an assistant to the director of the Austrian Farmers' Union , Rupprechter worked in the office of the then Minister of Agriculture Franz Fischler from 1989 . In the ministerial office he was responsible for international affairs and, as an expert in the field of agriculture, he was a member of the negotiating group for Austria's accession to the EU . From 1995 Rupprecht was head of department in the Ministry of Agriculture and acted in the EU Council as the Austrian spokesman in the Special Committee on Agriculture (SAL). He held this position until 2002, during the first Austrian Council Presidency in 1998 he was also Chairman of the SAL. From 1998 to 2000 he was first deputy section head, then section head for international and EU affairs in the Ministry of Agriculture. From 2007 Rupprecht worked in the European public service, and in 2013 he was appointed Director of Communication and Transparency in the EU Council. In December 2013 he was elected Secretary General of the Committee of the Regions, but renounced it and was sent by the ÖVP to the Faymann II cabinet as Minister of Agriculture .

After the National Council election in Austria in 2017 , Rupprechter was initially a member of the National Council . At the end of January 2018, he resigned his mandate, and Josef Lettenbichler took his place . Since then he has been working again at the EU level in the General Secretariat of the European Council . Until the end of 2018 he was assigned as special advisor for the Austrian EU Council Presidency 2018 . In November 2019 it was announced that he would become Director of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union on December 16, 2019 .

From 2016 until he left the National Council, Rupprecht was President of the European Federalist Movement in Austria (EFB_Austria) and Vice-President of the European Movement in Austria.

Political commitment

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During his studies Rupprecht was active in student politics. He was a mandate of the BOKU action group and deputy chairman of the student body and deputy chairman of the student body at BOKU.

As a schoolboy, he took part in a campaign to “save the Brandenberger Ache” when a power plant was planned to be built in 1974. In 1978 he took part in the campaign against the nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf and in 1984 he was actively involved in the occupation of the Hainburger Au.

From 1994 to 1995 Rupprecht took an active part in the government campaign for the EU accession referendum and gave a large number of lectures. He played a key role in implementing the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (GAP) in Austria. The coordination with the Land Conference on Agriculture and Agriculture (LARK) is highlighted as a prime example of functioning multi-level governance . A few years later he was also involved in the negotiations on the reform of the CAP.

As Section Head for Agriculture and Food in the BMLFUW, Rupprechter was also responsible for overseeing the Austrian paying agency AMA and the newly created food authority AGES. Various information campaigns were developed under his responsibility, in particular the project “Genuss Region Österreich”, which was set up in cooperation with local and regional authorities and participants.

In 2003 he was responsible for organizing an EU conference for regional and rural development in cooperation with the European Commission. This conference in Salzburg was attended by around 1,500 participants and high-ranking representatives from European institutions and EU candidate countries.

Private

In December 2013, on the occasion of his swearing-in , he caused a sensation with an unusual formula: "Mr. Federal President, I promise, so help me God and before the sacred heart of Jesus Christ."

Rupprechte openly - and against the party line - advocates adoption rights for homosexuals and against the exclusion of gays and lesbians.

Rupprecht is married and has four children.

honors and awards

• 2012: Admission to the Brotherhood of Santa Maria dell'Anima ("Anima Brotherhood")
• Knight of Honor of the Habsburg Order of St. George .
• Holder of the French order of command, Ordre du Mérite agricole , awarded by the French Minister of Agriculture, Michel Barnier
• Lieutenant of the Brandenberg Rifle Company
• Large gold medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria for his work in the federal government

Fonts

• Andrä Rupprechte: BTX as an aid for investment and financing decisions: Development of dialogue programs in MUPID-BASIC for credit and capital cost accounting . Diploma thesis University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 1987.

literature

• Andrä Rupprechte , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 12/2014 from March 18, 2014, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Andrä Rupprechter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andrä Rupprechte on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Andrä Rupprechter in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ministry of Life: Portrait ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} tirol.orf.at: Rupprechter becomes Minister of Agriculture , December 13, 2013.
3. ↑ Kurier: The new and old heads in the government ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 12th 2013. 
4. ↑ Andrä Rupprechter becomes an EU advisor and leaves the National Council. In: The press. January 24, 2018, accessed January 25, 2018 . 
5. ^ Courier: Brandstetter received a call from Brussels . Article dated March 17, 2018, accessed March 17, 2018.
6. ↑ Ex-Minister Rupprecht returns to EU agricultural policy. In: ORF.at . November 7, 2019, accessed November 7, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Kurier.at online: Sworn: "Before the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ" , December 16, 2013.
8. ^ Adoption law: Rupprecht confirms initiative for homosexuals. In: kurier.at. March 3, 2014, accessed December 29, 2017 .