Walter Fuchs (Ministerial Councilor)

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Walter Fuchs

Section head Walter Fuchs (born April 1, 1950 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer and retired ministerial official.

Life

Fuchs has lived in Vienna since he was born and graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Vienna 3 in 1968. After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer (1968/1969), he pursued a career as a reserve officer and finally became an orderly officer with the command of the 3rd Jäger Brigade. From 1969 he studied at the University of Vienna and completed his studies after receiving the academic degree Mag. Iur. obtained a doctorate in law and political science in 1981.

He is a direct descendant of Aloys Fuchs and married to Prof. Dr. Ingrid Fuchs, the deputy director of the archive of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna .

From 1974 to 1979 he worked as an administrative lawyer at the telecommunications authority I. Instance at the post office in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, and in 1980 moved to the then Federal Ministry of Buildings and Technology for federal building construction and was a consultant at the highest building authority. From 1987 to 1990 he was a member of the cabinet of Economics Ministers Robert Graf and Wolfgang Schüssel . Since 1992 he has been a ministerial advisor in the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy, now Federal Ministry for Digitization and Business Location (BMDW) in Vienna and deputy section head, responsible for the areas of competition law including UWG, subsidies (EU) and price labeling law . Here he was head of the European price commission for the preparation and support of the introduction of the euro in Austria in 2002, most recently he prepared the so-called fuel price regulation and had it successfully defended at the Constitutional Court (Austria) in 2010 and 2013.

For the staff representation he was initially as a defender in disciplinary proceedings and from 2000 as a member and from 2002 as deputy. Chairman of the disciplinary committee and often also chairman of the staff representative election committee in the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

1983 began his work as a lecturer and examiner at the Federal Administration Academy (until 2006). Since 1994 he has been giving private courses in public law as preparation for the bar exam or is a lecturer in preparatory courses: until 2010 at the Faulhaber law courses, since 2012 at the Austrian Lawyers Academy (AWAK) and since 2013 at the Academy for Law and Taxes ( ARS) in Vienna.

He contributed to the development of the independent Federal Competition Authority (BWB) and procurement control authorities ( Federal Procurement Office as the forerunner of what is now the Federal Administrative Court ) in Austria in 1995 and 2002. With Helmut Pechlaner, Fuchs played a leading role in the spin-off of Schönbrunn Zoo and Schönbrunn Palace under Federal Minister Wolfgang Schüssel in 1992. He was a member of the supervisory board of Schönbrunner Tiergarten Schönbrunn Gesellschaft mbH between 1992 and 2012. From 2014 to 2019 he was an expert lay judge at the federal administrative court for the area of ​​procurement control and personnel.

He has been entrusted with public housing (especially non-profit housing) since 1988 and was involved in the so-called extension of housing subsidies in 1988. Austria has now achieved an internationally recognized position in the further development of the law for non-profit housing developers within the framework of the Non-Profit Housing Act , the legal preparation of which was part of the tasks of its area in the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

He was a member of the board of trustees of the Emperor Franz Joseph I. Jubilee Fund for workshop buildings and people's apartments in Vienna from 2003-20015. As chairman of the federal curia, he was chairman or deputy chairman of the overall board of trustees of the fund twice for three years. In the 2013–2015 functional period, the planning and preparations for the now successfully completed purchase of historical workshop buildings on the site of the former Leopoldau gasworks in Vienna's 21st district were carried out under his chairmanship.

Fuchs illustrates the possibilities of the mutually complementary interaction of social, ecological and economic aspects in the conception of the promotion campaign for the thermal renovation of private buildings with the building societies. This campaign was first implemented in 2009, was planned for a further four years from 2011 and has been extended annually since then.

On the occasion of his retirement at the end of 2015, Fuchs was given the designation Head of Section instead of Ministerialrat. - In the Austrian Armed Forces he is currently a lieutenant in the reserve and was decommissioned on December 31, 2015.

Awards

Works (excerpt)

  • Fuchs: Legal regulations on building materials in the event of a crisis , series of publications by the Research Association for Living, Building and Planning ( http://www.fgw.at ), 99; Vienna 1983
  • Fuchs, Zeissl: Reformation considerations for the protection of neighbors under building law. JBl 1984, 25
  • Fuchs, Lugger: Housing Policy Regulations in Austria from 1782–1942. Manz Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-214-14338-1 .
  • Fuchs, Mickel: Selected aspects of the relationship between the quality of standard setting and its environment. In: Fuchs, Krebs, Sachs: Changes in economic policy. Edition Atelier Sachbuch, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-902498-00-5 .
  • Fuchs, Lebschik: The abbreviation in the legal confusion - the tower of Brussels under Community law. In: Fuchs, Mickel, Schätz, Udolf-Strobl: Wirtschaftspolitische Gedankensplitter (Selected Aspects of Austria's EU Presidency 2006). Edition Atelier Sachbuch, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-902498-07-2 .
  • Fuchs, Mickel: How it all began: The roots of modern non-profit housing policy. In: The Austrian charity - a European model for success - Festschrift for KR Helmut Puchebner. Manz Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-214-00741-6 .
  • Fuchs, Handler: Citizen-oriented commercial law - a utopia. Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-901676-24-4 .
  • Fuchs: Festschrift Heinz Handler: Austria as a business location, from theory to practice. Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-901676-27-9 .
  • Fuchs: Requirements for regulatory authorities. In: Dieter Neumann-Spallart [Hrsg.]: SOS in the rule forest. Signum Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85436-208-0 .
  • Fuchs: National legal framework for consumers in the conversion phase of the introduction of the euro. In: Frauwallner: The Euro. Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-901676-20-1 .
  • Fuchs, Taurer: The new Euro Currency Indication Act (EWAG). Publishing house Austria Chamber of Commerce, Vienna 1999.
  • Fuchs: Pioneers of social housing: The Kaiser Franz Josef I. Jubilee fund for workshop buildings and people's apartments in Vienna. In: Austrian association of non-profit building associations - revision association, Austrian tenant, settler and apartment owner association and tenant association of Austria [ed.]: Non-profit housing industry in transition. Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-200-02854-8 .
  • Fuchs, Zenz: "The federal renovation check." In: Amann, Pernsteiner, Struber [Hrsg.]: "Housing in Austria in a European perspective." Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-214-03465-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna