Siegfried Nagl

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Siegfried Nagl, 2014.

Siegfried Nagl (born April 18, 1963 in Graz ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and since 2003 mayor of the Styrian capital Graz.

Life and work

Siegfried Nagl was born the third of four children in a Graz family. Until 1982 he attended the Federal Commercial Academy Graz I, today's commercial academy . During his studies of social and economic sciences at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz , he became a member of the Catholic student union K.Ö.HV Carolina Graz in the ÖCV . In 1988 he completed his studies with a master's degree. Nagl became the managing partner of his parents' company, the Klammerth company in Grazer Herrengasse. In 1996 he became chairman of the Graz Inner City Initiative, a lobby group for the inner city retail trade.

Nagl is married and has four children.

In 2015, at the beginning of the rampage in Graz, Nagl, as a scooter driver in the Zweiglgasse, saw in the rearview mirror the SUV colliding with a person on the sidewalk.

politics

Nagl started his first political activities in 1996 as deputy chairman of the Graz Economic Association and in 1997 as regional chairman of the Styrian Economic Association.

From 1998 to 2003 he was City Councilor of the City of Graz and responsible for the areas of finance, real estate, culture and agriculture. Since January 2000 he has been city party chairman of the ÖVP-Graz, since 2002 chairman of the local political association of Austria and since 2003 mayor of the city of Graz. In 2003 Graz became the cultural capital, during which the Murinsel , the Kunsthaus and the Helmut-List-Halle also opened .

In 2003 Nagl won the Graz municipal council elections and was elected mayor by a coalition of ÖVP and SPÖ. In the municipal council elections in 2008 , the ÖVP under Nagl recorded slight gains and subsequently entered coalition talks with the SPÖ and the Greens. On March 3, 2008, for the first time in the history of the city, his party reached an agreement with the Greens on a labor agreement until 2013.

In the municipal council election on November 25, 2012, the ÖVP held first place with Nagl as the top candidate with 33.74% of the votes, but lost 4.63% of the vote compared to 2008. Nagl claims the mayor's office and was again mayor. In the early municipal council election on February 5, 2017, the ÖVP with top candidate Nagl was able to maintain its first place with 37.79%.

criticism

After the introduction of the registered partnership in Austria in 2010, Nagl came under fire when he refused to allow same-sex couples to carry out the ceremony in the town hall's wedding hall. He justified his decision by saying that a registered partnership is not a marriage and instead made the media center in the town hall available to homosexual couples. It was not until September 2013, after the Constitutional Court ruled that the “different treatment of people who marry and people who enter into a registered partnership is not permissible”, was the wedding hall of the Graz City Hall opened for same-sex couples. As early as 2003, Nagl had told the newspaper Die Presse that he refused to “declare homosexuality to be normal in our society” and expressed the hope that “for these people, belief might lead to them stopping this form of living together ".

In 2017 he publicly committed himself to the construction of the Mur power plant in Graz, which led to demonstrations of political opposition. Above all, the high costs of the Mur power plant, the clearing of around 8,000 trees along the banks of the Mur river in Graz and the lack of economic efficiency and environmental compatibility were criticized.

The application of the city of Graz as a candidate city for the 2026 Winter Olympics, which was initiated and pushed by Nagl, was also controversial. The political opposition warned above all of enormously high spending, did not believe in an IOC trend reversal and therefore called for a referendum, which Nagl, however, was opposed to.

Nagl has also been criticized for its involvement in the real estate business. Nagl's wife Andrea is a partner in SA Immobilien GmbH, which is active in the purchase, sale and management of real estate. SA Immobilien GmbH is wholly owned by JK Klammerth Josef Hahn's Erben KG, whose sole representative (personally liable partner) is Siegfried Nagl.

Clauda Babel, Siegfried Nagl's campaign manager for many years, was also criticized. She was convicted of a bribe affair. A dirt bucket campaign against the Shopping City Seiersberg is also attributed to her, according to media reports.

Web links

Commons : Siegfried Nagl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City portal of the provincial capital Graz, Sonja Tautscher: Curriculum vitae of Mayor Siegfried Nagl - city portal of the provincial capital Graz . In: www.graz.at . ( graz.at [accessed on July 17, 2018]).
  2. ^ City portal of the provincial capital Graz, Admin (Graz Press Service): GR-Wahl 2012: Seat allocation - city portal of the provincial capital Graz . In: www.graz.at . ( graz.at [accessed on July 17, 2018]).
  3. ^ City portal of the provincial capital Graz, Sonja Tautscher: Final result of the municipal council election 2017 - city portal of the provincial capital Graz . In: www.graz.at . ( graz.at [accessed on July 17, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Gay marriage: No ceremony in the Graz wedding hall . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Der Standard : VP-Nagl opens the wedding hall for lesbians and gays , August 19, 2013
  6. ^ Graz: excitement about Siegfried Nagl - derStandard.at. December 22, 2003, accessed June 19, 2019 .
  7. ^ Office of the mayor Siegfried Nagl: Mur power plant decision | Mayor's office Siegfried Nagl. November 22, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Murkraftwerk: "Brutally creating facts" . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed September 13, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Green light for Graz Olympic application 2026 - derStandard.at. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .
  10. ↑ elisabeth.holzer: Olympic Games 250 kilometers around Graz . ( kurier.at [accessed on September 13, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Olympia 2026: Little news at the information event in Graz . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed September 13, 2018]).
  12. ↑ http://www.xn--wir-brger-u9a.at/murkraftwerk-ein-buergermeister-und-ein-immo-netzwerk/
  13. ↑ https://www.firmenabc.at/sa-immobilien-gmbh_NpnS
  14. ↑ https://www.firmenabc.at/sa-immobilien-gmbh_NpnS
  15. ↑ https://www.firmenabc.at/jk-klammerth-josef-hahn-s-erbe-kg_VJZ
  16. ^ Telecom trial against VP Graz: Schönegger and Babel convicted. June 7, 2016, accessed February 26, 2020 .
  17. ^ Causa Babel: Shoppingcity Seiersberg defends itself. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nagl, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP)
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz