Styrian People's Party
| Styrian People's Party | |
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| State party chairman | Hermann Schützenhöfer |
| Club hostess | Barbara Riener |
| Member of the state parliament |
18/48 ( LTW 2019 / MPs ) |
| Country Managing Director | Detlev Eisel-Eiselsberg |
| Regional councils |
Barbara Eibinger-Miedl Christopher Drexler Johann Seitinger Juliane Bogner-Strauss |
| Headquarters | Karmeliterplatz 6, 8010 Graz |
| Website | Styrian People's Party |
The Styrian People's Party (STVP) is the state organization (also state party ) of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) in the Austrian state of Styria . It consists of the sub-organizations Bauernbund, Wirtschaftsbund, Arbeiterbund, Seniorenbund, Women's Movement and Young People's Party. The party has its seat ("state party leadership") on Grazer Karmeliterplatz .
After the state elections in 2019 , the STVP has 18 mandates in the Styrian state parliament and sends four representatives to the Federal Council .
history
The STVP was founded on May 18, 1945 in Graz. The first party executive committee included Alois Dienstleder , Josef Hollersbacher and Anton Pirchegger . Just a week later, the party statute was approved by the Soviet occupying power and the People's Party assigned the Palais Galler on Karmeliterplatz as its office. Dienstleder was elected chairman because other leading representatives of the Christian social camp, such as Alfons Gorbach and Karl Maria Stepan , had not yet returned from concentration camp detention and were therefore not available. In addition, the positioning of the new party was still largely unclear. In the first state elections on November 25, 1945, the STVP achieved an absolute majority with 53% of the votes, Pirchegger was elected governor, while the new party chairman Alfons Gorbach went to Vienna to join the National Council . Since Governor Pirchegger was accused of not being able to prevail against the SPÖ enough, he resigned on July 6, 1948 and was replaced by Josef Krainer senior , the previous State Councilor for Agriculture and Forestry. In the post-war years, the STVP (as well as the political competition) tried to win over members of the " Third Camp " or former National Socialists . The Ennstaler Kreis and Ernst Strachwitz's “Junge Front” , as well as various returnees and amnesty committees, were used for this purpose. Succeeded largely, the electorate of the former Agrarian League to open up, after the occurrence of VdU the party lost in the state elections in 1949 but massively votes and remained in 1953 only because of the electoral arithmetic mandate strongest party.
In the state elections in 1957 , a personality campaign around the popular “father of the country” Krainer was first used and landslide-like profits were recorded. In the following elections, the party always achieved a larger share of the vote than in the respective National Council elections and repeatedly won an absolute majority of votes and mandates. Krainer's strong position within the party was also expressed through criticism of the federal party leadership under Julius Raab and later of Gorbach, in whose overthrow Krainer played a key role. Under Friedrich Niederl , who became governor and party chairman after Krainer's death in November 1971, the STVP achieved its best result to date in the 1974 election with 53.27 percent and 31 seats. On July 4, 1980, Josef Krainer junior was elected as the new governor and at the same time became regional party chairman, a position he had already held in an executive position under Niederl. Politically, the 1980s were mainly shaped by the crisis of the nationalized industry and the fight against the stationing of the Saab 35 Draken interceptors in Zeltweg . In 1987 the party's own daily newspaper Südost Tagespost , which had been published since 1945 (until 1951 as Das Steirerblatt ), was discontinued.
In 1991 the STVP lost the absolute majority of the mandate for the first time since 1957, but Krainer was unanimously re-elected as governor with the votes of all three state parliament parties. After another heavy defeat in the 1995 state elections , Krainer resigned, and state party chairman and governor Waltraud Klasnic became a woman for the first time in Austria's history. Klasnic was elected in the state parliament against the candidate of the same mandate SPÖ with the votes of the FPÖ and - like Krainer before - maintained good relations with Jörg Haider . After the National Council election in 1999 , the Styrian People's Party appeared in Vienna as an advocate of a black-blue coalition that was finally formed in February 2000 under Wolfgang Schüssel . In the state elections in 2000 , the party was able to gain over 11 percentage points, which can be attributed not least to Klasnic's popularity as the “ mother of the country ” after the 1999 Lassing mine accident . The following years, however, were marked by political affairs (including the misuse of public funds by the Herberstein zoo ) and internal party disputes over Regional Councilor Gerhard Hirschmann , so that the People's Party lost the relative majority in the 2005 election and thus the office of governor to the SPÖ for the first time.
Hermann Schützenhöfer has been chairman of the Styrian People's Party since March 18, 2006 and Governor of Styria since June 2015. After the National Council election in 2008 , the party under Schützenhöfer reappeared against a black-red coalition. The 2010 state election ended with a slight loss of votes for the People's Party, which continued to rule with the SPÖ under Governor Franz Voves until 2015 . In the subsequent state election in May of the same year, the SPÖ and ÖVP lost a lot - especially in favor of the Freedom Party. After brief coalition negotiations, however, red-black was reissued, with Schützenhöfer taking over the post of governor as the head of the second largest party.
In the state elections in November 2019 , Schützenhöfer emerged as the clear winner, with 36.05 percent of the votes he was able to recapture first place for the ÖVP. Just three weeks after the election, the new coalition with the SPÖ was sworn in in the state parliament, and the Styrian People's Party now governs with four state councilors.
Content positioning
For decades the party cultivated the image of the “innovation party”, which was characterized by international contacts (including with the then communist neighboring states) and regional cultural initiatives ( Styrian autumn ). In addition, there were public discussion processes about state political perspectives under the title “Model Styria”. During the time of the party chairmen Josef Krainer senior and Josef Krainer junior , the STVP tried to involve as many social groups as possible in the party structures , from liberals to German national camps. This strategy became known under the catchphrase “ Styrian breadth ” coined by Hanns Koren . The often tense relationship with the federal ÖVP has already led several times to considerations about an organizational detachment of the Styrian People's Party and the formation of a parliamentary group with the ÖVP based on the model of the Bavarian CSU .
The STVP regards itself as critical and reform-oriented and represents concepts that are clearly different from those of the federal party in various issues, such as in the area of the school system. According to the party program, the political focus is on ways for Styria to work, security, sustainability and community. The People's Party uses the national colors of white-green as party colors, the national coat of arms, the Styrian Panther, is included in the party logo . The party occasionally refers to itself in its publications as " The Styria Party ", which indicates its emphatically federalist attitude. The - within the party as a whole - rather liberal attitude of the STVP is often emphasized with reference to the reforms under Archduke Johann , in whose tradition the STVP often follows. Critics therefore speak of an inadmissible equation of party and Styrian national consciousness.
Party chairman and state manager since 1945
source
literature
- Alfred Ableitinger: From "Bad Start" in May to an absolute majority in November. The Austrian People's Party in Styria 1945 . in: Siegfried Beer (ed.): The "British Styria" 1945-1955 . (= Research on the historical regional studies of Styria, vol. 38), Graz, 1995, pp. 81–110.
- Alfred Ableitinger / Bernd Beutl (eds.), 60 years of the Styrian People's Party. Take sides for Styria! (= Styrian Yearbook for Politics), Graz 2005.
- Dieter A. Binder : Styrian or Austrian People's Party . in: Robert Kriechbaumer / Franz Schausberger (ed.): People's Party - Claim and Reality . Vienna-Cologne-Weimar, 1995. pp. 559-600.
- Dieter A. Binder / Heinz P. Wassermann: The Styrian People's Party or the return of the estates . Graz, 2008.
- Herwig Hösele : Prince and mother of the country: two characters, one goal . Graz, 2007.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Verwaltung-Land Steiermark, Michaela Leeb: LTW - historical review. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Ableitinger (1995), pp. 86f.
- ↑ Binder / Wassermann (2008), p. 46f.
- ↑ Binder / Wassermann (2008), p. 75ff.
- ↑ Hösele (2007), p. 124.
- ↑ Salzburger Nachrichten: Hermann Schützenhöfer - der Überbleiber ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The standard: Reactions: Schützenhöfer thinks about black-orange-green ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hösele (2007), p. 24f.
- ↑ Format: The Steiermark-Wahl: "I need ka big world"
- ↑ Hösele (2007), pp. 60f.
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Styrian ÖVP continues against government with SPÖ
- ↑ Styrian People's Party for "great success" instead of "stain carpet"
- ^ "That's not quite mine": ÖVP boss Hermann Schützenhöfer on his relationship to the FPÖ and Krone, his Styrian heart and hearty music ( memento from April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ STVP: Paths to community ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Binder / Wassermann, (2008), pp. 84f.
- ↑ Die Presse: No courage for a conservative project - or: The misery of the ÖVP
- ↑ Taking sides with Styria: 60 years of the Styrian People's Party ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.3 MB)
