Walter Geyer

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Walter Geyer (born November 30, 1947 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian politician ( Greens ) and public prosecutor . Geyer was a member of the Austrian National Council from 1986 to 1988 .

Life

After primary school, Geyer attended a grammar school and completed his schooling in 1967 with the Matura . Geyer then studied law at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1972 with the academic degree Mag. Jur. from. Geyer then completed his legal practice and became a judge and in 1977 a public prosecutor at the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office. Geyer represented the Greens from December 17, 1986 to November 16, 1988 in the National Council and was deputy chairman of the Green Parliamentary Club. As a result of his nine-hour speech against the dying of forests, the speaking time limit was introduced in Parliament.

After his career as a member of the National Council, Geyer became a public prosecutor again. He fought against white-collar crime for ten years, then against organized crime and juvenile crime. Until 2009 he headed the Korneuburg public prosecutor , in 2009 Geyer took over the management of the newly created corruption public prosecutor .

Political activity

When the Greens first moved to the National Council under Freda Meissner-Blau in 1986 , Geyer was brought in as an expert on legal issues. From 1986 to 1988 he was deputy club chairman of the Greens and their judicial spokesman. Geyer became known, among other things, for a nine-hour speech against the dying of forests, which subsequently led to the introduction of a speaking time limit in parliament. In 1987, in his capacity as deputy club chairman, he traveled to communist Hungary to demonstrate against the Gabčíkovo barrage network between Gabčíkovo and Nagymaros, which was co-financed by Austria . He was arrested and imprisoned, but released due to his diplomatic status as a member of the National Council. In 1988 Geyer returned to the judiciary as a public prosecutor.

Work as a lawyer

Geyer became known for spectacular criminal proceedings, among others against the former finance minister Hannes Androsch , against whom he opened a case in 1984 on suspicion of tax evasion . Geyer brought a murder charge against the mafia godfather Jeremiasz Baranski. Baranski had previously been linked to an acid attack on a Polish public prosecutor who was prosecuting him. Geyer was spokesman for the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office until he became head of the Korneuburg public prosecutor's office. From January 1, 2009 he was the head of the newly established anti-corruption public prosecutor in Vienna and the first anti-corruption public prosecutor in Austria. He retired in 2013.

Others

Geyer also works as a lecturer and author.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Manfred Seeh: Exemplary public prosecutor as a lonely corruption hunter ( memento from January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: The press . October 9, 2008
  2. ↑ a b Robert Kriechbaumer : Turn of Time. The SPÖ-FPÖ coalition 1983-1987 in the historical analysis, from the point of view of the political actors and in caricatures of Ironimus . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77770-0 , p. 172.
  3. ↑ Petra Stuiber: Head of the day: anti-corruption hunter Walter Geyer . In: The Standard . December 29, 2008
  4. ↑ Walter Mayr: In the gut of the republic . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 2011, p. 108-112 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Public prosecutor criticizes the police in the EDOK process . In: News . October 21, 2002.
  6. ↑ Jürgen Dahlkamp , Georg Mascolo , Jan Puhl & Holger Stark: Bandit and Singvogel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 2002, p. 61-68 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Brigitte Pechar: Walter Geyer: From the eco-rebel to the accuser of corruption . In: Wiener Zeitung . January 27, 2009.
  8. ↑ Florian Klenk , Stefan Apfl: Alone against the money ( Memento from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: Florian Klenks explorations. January 13, 2010.
  9. ^ Theo Anders: Walter Geyer on the WKStA: "The idea of ​​red networks is absurd". In: derstandard.at . February 7, 2020, accessed February 7, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Geyer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and politician (Greens), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna