Federation of Industrialists

Association of Austrian Industry ( Federation of Austrian Industries, IV)
purpose	Voluntary representation of the interests of Austrian industry in Europe and Austria
Chair:	Georg Knill (President), Christoph Neumayer (Secretary General)
Establishment date:	1862 as an association of industrialists , Neugr. 1946 as an association of Austrian industrialists
Number of members:	approx. 4,200 companies
Seat :	Vienna , Schwarzenbergplatz 4
Website:	www.iv-net.at

The Association of Austrian Industry , or Industrial Association  (IV) for short, sees itself both as a representation of interests at the Austrian and European level and as a service organization for its approximately 4,200 members. In contrast to the chambers , membership is on a voluntary basis.

Agendas

As Austrian industry representative body, the Association aims to represent the interests of its members in Europe and Austria sustainable and the business location to strengthen Austria and Europe. In addition to the federal organization, there are also nine regional groups in the respective federal states. The structure is made up of voluntary functionaries and full-time employees. Since 1988 the association has also had an office in Brussels and also provides the Austrian representative in the European industrial and employers' association Businesseurope . General Secretary Christoph Neumayer is a member of the Businesseurope executive office, the strategic control center of the European employers' association. Internationally, the IV is represented in the International Organization of Employers .

organization

The association is based on voluntary functionaries and full-time employees. There are nine independent regional groups, the federal organization and a representative office in Brussels .

IV office in Brussels

The office has existed since 1988, i.e. before Austria joined the EU in 1995, as a monitoring center for political and economic trends and a contact point between the members and European politics. The head of the IV office in Brussels is also the permanent representative of Austria at the European industrial and employers' association Businesseurope . It is located at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU and is thus integrated into Austrian economic policy and diplomacy.

President since 1946 1946–1960: Hans Lauda ( Veitscher Magnesitwerke  AG, Vienna) 1960–1972: Franz Josef Mayer-Gunthof ( Vöslauer Kammgarnfabrik  AG, Vöslau) 1972–1980: Hans Igler ( Schoeller & Co , Vienna) 1980: Fritz Mayer ( ITT Austria  GmbH, Vienna) 1980–1988: Christian Beurle ( Brau AG , Linz) 1988–1996: Heinz Kessler ( Nettingsdorfer paper factory , Nettingsdorf) 1996–2004: Peter Mitterbauer ( Miba AG , Laakirchen) 2004–2012: Veit Sorger ( Mondi AG , Vienna) 2012–2020: Georg Kapsch ( Kapsch AG , Vienna) since 2020: Georg Knill ( Knill Group , Weiz) Deputy: Sabine Herlitschka ( Infineon Austria, Villach) Philipp von Lattorff ( Boehringer Ingelheim , Vienna)

Chief Executive and General Secretary since 1946 1946–1948: Alexander Hryntschak 1948–1953: Josef C. Böck-Greissau 1953–1960: Herbert Thausing 1961–1970: Franz Curt Fetzer 1971–1974: Kunata Kottulinsky 1974–1976: Franz Helbich 1977–1979: Arno Halusa , Ambassador AD 1979-1992: Herbert Krejci 1992–1997: Franz Ceska 1997-2004: Lorenz Fritz 2004–2011: Markus Beyrer since 2011: Christoph Neumayer

Status 2011

history

As the oldest predecessor organization, the Association of Industrialists , the representation of large and heavy industry , was established in 1862 . In 1892 the Central Association of Austrian Industrialists was set up to represent individual professional associations, and a little later, in 1897, the Federation of Austrian Industrialists was established to represent small and medium-sized enterprises. These three associations had the House of Industry built on Schwarzenbergplatz in 1906-09 , which later became the headquarters of the Federation of Industrialists. After the disintegration of Austria-Hungary, they merged to form the Reich Association of Austrian Industry , later the Main Association of Austria's Industry . The Federation of Austrian Industrialists , which was founded during the time of the corporate state , was disbanded after the annexation to Hitler's Germany .

In 1946 it was re-established as an association of Austrian industrialists . After the House of Industry survived World War II without major damage, it became the seat of the Allied Council until 1955 . Since the withdrawal of the Allies, the building has again been the seat of the Federation of Industrialists. On May 23, 1996, the association's name was last changed to the Association of Austrian Industry .

criticism

Because of payments to the Association for the Promotion of the New Economy and the resulting scandal about the financing of the website of the then Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser , the Federation of Industrialists was criticized by opposition politicians, among others, and the suspicion of bribery was expressed. As early as 1993, the publicist Markus Wilhelm uncovered payments by the Federation of Industrialists to various political groups (ÖVP, FPÖ and others).

See also

Young industry

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

• Entry on the Association of Austrian Industry in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

1. ↑ ^{a b} Brussels Industrialists , 30, Avenue de Cortenbergh, B-1040 Brussels; Postal address: PO Box 600, B-1040 Brussels; IV office in Brussels ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2015 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. ^ Georg Knill elected the new IV President. In: ORF.at . June 18, 2020, accessed June 18, 2020 . 
3. ^ Andrea Hodoschek: Georg Knill new President of the Federation of Industrialists. In: Kurier.at . June 18, 2020, accessed June 18, 2020 . 
4. ↑ After a fight vote and a long tug-of-war: Georg Knill is the new IV boss. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . June 18, 2020, accessed June 18, 2020 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} after Gerald Schöpfer: Franz Curt Fetzer: 100 years for economy and welfare. Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2006, ISBN 978-320577579-9 , pp. 273, 274 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
6. ^ Entry on Ceska, Franz in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon ); a short curriculum vitae can be found in Robert Kriechbaumer, Oliver Rathkolb: Austrian National History after 1945: Seen with Different Eyes , Böhlau, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-320599105-2 , p. 904 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
7. ↑ Parliamentary materials ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Deviating personal statement according to § 42 Abs. 5 GOG of the deputy Mag. Werner Kogler , December 2, 2005 
8. ↑ Stenographic minutes of the 24th session of the National Council of the Republic of Austria (XXII. Legislative period) on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 ( Memento of the original of September 29, 2007 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. u. a. P. 106ff, p. 130ff 
9. ↑ Money rules by Markus Wilhelm in the magazine Föhn
10. ^ IV-Bund - home page. Retrieved February 9, 2017 .