Sepp Rieder

Sepp Rieder (2015)

Josef Rieder, known as Sepp Rieder (born December 25, 1939 in Vienna ), is a former Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). From 1989 to 2007 he was a member of six Viennese city senates and provincial governments as the executive city councilor or vice mayor and has been an honorary citizen of Vienna since October 2, 2007 .

Life

education and profession

After attending primary school and high school (Matura 1957), Sepp Rieder studied law at the University of Vienna from 1957 to 1961 (doctorate in 1961) and was then a candidate judge from 1962 to 1965. In 1965 he was appointed district judge and assigned to the Ministry of Justice. In his last role there - he was head of the criminal legislative and public relations departments - he worked closely with Justice Minister Christian Broda . During this time, Sepp Rieder was involved in the reform of the criminal law .

At the Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg , Rieder was a lecturer for media law and professional law for journalists at the journalism institute.

Private

Sepp Rieder has been married to Anita Rieder for around 40 years and has two grown-up children.

Political functions

• 1983–1989 Member of the National Council and judicial spokesman for the SPÖ (see National Council election in Austria 1983 and 1986 )
• February 1988–1991 State Party Secretary of the Vienna Social Democrats
• December 15, 1989 to December 14, 2000 Acting City Councilor for Health and Hospitals (see state government and city senate Zilk II , Zilk III and Häupl I )
• November 7, 1994 to November 27, 1996 Vice Mayor of Vienna (see provincial government and city senate Häupl I )
• December 14, 2000-25. January 2007 Acting city councilor for finances, economic policy and Wiener Stadtwerke (see provincial government and city senate Häupl II , Häupl III and Häupl IV )
• April 27, 2001–25. January 2007 again Vice Mayor of Vienna (Häupl III and IV)
• 2000-23. March 2007 President of the Vienna Tourism Association

In 2007 Sepp Rieder retired.

During his tenure as the official city councilor for health and hospitals, the establishment of the Vienna Hospital Association was completed and the first independent and independent patient advocacy in Austria was created.

Other functions

• 1990 to 2002 President of the Association of Social Democratic Academics, Intellectuals and Artists (BSA)
• since 1993 second president of the Austrian-Israeli Society
• since 1999 first president of the Austrian-Israeli Society

Honors

• Gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria
• Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna (2001)
• Large Viktor Adler badge
• Grand Officer's Cross Pro Merito Melitensi of the Sovereign Order of Malta
• Large gold medal of honor from the Federal Association of Israelite Religious Communities in Austria
• Commander's Cross of the Order of Gregorius
• Honorary Citizen of the City of Vienna (2007)
• Honorary Senator of the Medical University of Vienna (2007)

Works

• The new tenancy law , Dr. Karl Renner Institute (around 1982)
• Criminal Law and Society , History and Politics Publishing House, 1988, ISBN 3-7028-0282-7
• Rudolf Hartmann and Sepp Rieder: Commentary on the Media Act , Manz
• Rudolf Hartmann and Sepp Rieder: Media Act including the relevant basic rights provisions, the Broadcasting Act, Journalists Act, the guidelines and the rules of procedure of the Austrian Press Council, the ORF program guidelines, etc. a., Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei
• Christoph Mayerhofer and Sepp Rieder : Ancillary criminal law : MilStG , publishing house of the Austrian State Printing House
• Christoph Mayerhofer and Sepp Rieder: The Austrian criminal law , publishing house of the Austrian state printing company
• Christoph Mayerhofer and Sepp Rieder: Criminal Code , Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei
• Christoph Mayerhofer and Sepp Rieder: Criminal Procedure Code §§ 1-270 , Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei
• Christoph Mayerhofer and Sepp Rieder: Criminal Procedure Code §§ 271-506 , Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei
• Christoph Mayerhofer and Sepp Rieder: Ordinances and decrees: on material and formal criminal law , publishing house of the Austrian State Printing House

Web links

Commons : Sepp Rieder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Vienna City Hall correspondence about Sepp Rieder (with photo)
• Sepp Rieder. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
• Sepp Rieder on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Literature by and about Sepp Rieder in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

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