Thomas Steiner (politician)

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Thomas Steiner (2017)

Thomas Steiner (born January 27, 1967 ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and lawyer. Steiner has been a member of the Burgenland state parliament since 2010 and has been mayor of the Burgenland state capital, Freistadt Eisenstadt, since 2011 . In June 2015 he became regional party chairman of the ÖVP Burgenland .

From 1996 to 2010 Steiner was in the service of the Burgenland provincial government , where he most recently headed the office of the provincial governor's deputy.

Life

Steiner is the son of the primary school director Matthias Steiner and his wife Magdalena, nee. Karner. He grew up with his 5 siblings in Podersdorf and Loretto, before moving to Eisenstadt.

From 1973 to 1977 he attended elementary school in Loretto, then the Bundesrealgymnasium in Eisenstadt, where he also passed his Matura in 1985 . Steiner then studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna (Juridicum Vienna) and graduated in 1991 with the academic degree Mag. Iur. from.

After completing his studies, he did his military service in the Austrian army . Steiner lives in Eisenstadt, he has been married to Andrea Steiner since 1992 and has one son.

On April 7, 2017, Steiner was an eyewitness to the terrorist attack in Stockholm (Sweden) , in which four people were killed and 15 were injured, some seriously.

Professional and political career   

After successfully completing his law studies, Steiner entered the service of the Burgenland State Government as a contract employee in 1991 .

Between 1991 and 1996 he was club secretary of the ÖVP state parliament club, and from 1996 to 2000 he worked in the office of the governor's deputy. From 2000 to 2010 Steiner headed the office of Deputy Governor Franz Steindl.

Steiner began his political career as early as 1990 as chairman of the Junge ÖVP . Steiner was then a local councilor in Eisenstadt from 2007 and in the same year he was deputy district chairman of the ÖAAB Eisenstadt. In addition, in 2008 he was elected ÖVP city party chairman of Eisenstadt and club chairman of the ÖVP community councils. Since June 24, 2010 he has represented the ÖVP in the Burgenland Parliament , where he has been the area spokesman for administration and constitution and since 2015 for transport and infrastructure. In November 2011, Steiner succeeded Andrea Fraunschiel as mayor of the state capital of Freistadt Eisenstadt. On June 4, 2015, Steiner was initially appointed as the managing state party chairman of the ÖVP Burgenland and then officially elected by the state party conference in November 2015 as the state party chairman with 97.6%. He replaced Franz Steindl .

Activity as mayor of the state capital of Freistadt Eisenstadt

Thomas Steiner is the 13th mayor of the state capital of Freistadt Eisenstadt.

Mag. Thomas Steiner has been the town councilor of Eisenstadt since 2007, in 2011 he took over the office of mayor of Eisenstadt from Andrea Fraunschiel. When he took office, Thomas Steiner laid down his guiding principle: work, decide and bring something forward for Eisenstadt. The focus was and is on the city's steady growth: between 2001 and 2011 alone, the population increased by 16 percent. This led to the setting of priorities, especially in the areas of education as well as transport and infrastructure, with the involvement of all citizens.

In 2013, with the involvement of the population and experts, the development of the urban development plan STEP 2030 began, which represents a model for the further development of the city.

A milestone for public transport was set with the introduction of the city bus. The planning for this began in 2015, at the end of 2016 three bus lines started operating, and a fourth line has now been added.

Numerous initiatives in the areas of the environment, health, safety and social issues have been taken to raise the quality of life and raise awareness of the city. Projects such as "Blooming Eisenstadt" with meadows of flowers you can pick yourself, "Clean Eisenstadt" or "Eisenstadt is good for me" are now shaping the cityscape.

In the municipal council and mayor elections on October 1, 2017, Mag. Thomas Steiner was confirmed in his position as mayor with 60.33%.

Activity as regional party chairman of the ÖVP Burgenland

Steiner took over ÖVP Burgenland on June 4, 2015 as managing ÖVP boss and was confirmed by the state party conference on November 14, 2015 with 97.6 percent of the votes. He succeeded Franz Steindl in this function.

After the previous system of proportional representation for the occupation of the state government was abolished in Burgenland by the state constitutional law in 2014, a free government was formed for the first time after the state elections in 2015. This change in electoral law stipulated that the party with the strongest votes would invite government negotiations with potential coalition partners after the election. The previous governor, Hans Niessl , decided on Wednesday evening after the election to only conduct coalition negotiations with the FPÖ.

In 2015, for the first time since 1945, the New People's Party of Burgenland was not in the Burgenland state government, but in opposition .

Under Thomas Steiner as regional party leader, the ÖVP embarked on a reform course and repositioned itself in Burgenland. The ÖVP Burgenland joined the new path of the federal ÖVP under Sebastian Kurz and has been operating under the name of the New People's Party Burgenland and the party color turquoise since 2018 . The individual citizens' offices were merged into regional offices and a "plan for Burgenland" was drawn up.

Under Thomas Steiner, the ÖVP Burgenland was able to win again for the first time in state-wide elections, +6.04% in the 2017 National Council election and +4.04% in the 2019 European elections, with the ÖVP in first place in Burgenland before the SPÖ for the first time since 1964 occupied.

State election 2020 ÖVP top candidate

In the early Burgenland state election on January 26, 2020, Thomas Steiner stood as the top candidate of the New People's Party of Burgenland.

After the state election in 2020 , Christian Sagartz succeeded him as ÖVP state party leader.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Steiner new state party chairman. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b History - Mayor Mag. Thomas Steiner. State capital Freistadt Eisenstadt, accessed on December 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Michael Pekovics: Successful model: 350,000 passengers in the Eisenstadt city bus. Courier, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Sebastian Handler: New environmental campaign: Clean Eisenstadt. In: mein district.at. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Mayor and municipal council elections 2017 - Eisenstadt. State capital Freistadt Eisenstadt, accessed on December 10, 2019 .
  6. ^ Constitutional reform in Burgenland: proportional representation is abolished - derStandard.at. The standard, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Orovits: SPÖ-Niessl wants to form a government with the FPÖ. Courier, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Christian Uchann: ÖVP presented "Plan for Burgenland": From Burgenland bus to the founder content. District papers, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Andreas Puschautz, Josef Gebhard, Thomas Orovits, Matthias Hofer: states Results: Historic ÖVP triumph in Burgenland. Courier, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  10. ↑ christian sagartz new ÖVP chairman. In: ORF.at . February 20, 2020, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Millendorfer and Markus Wagentristl: Everything new at the ÖVP: Sagartz and Fazekas instead of Steiner and Wolf. In: Burgenland People's Newspaper . February 20, 2020, accessed February 20, 2020 .
predecessor Office successor
Andrea Fraunschiel Mayor of Eisenstadt
2011–
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1967