Walter Nettig

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Walter Nettig (born June 7, 1935 in Vienna ; † September 29, 2020 ) was an Austrian entrepreneur and president of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce as well as Viennese local politician. Nettig was an honorary citizen of the City of Vienna and from June 2008 to 2013 President of the Vienna Boys' Choir .

Youth and education

In his childhood, Walter Nettig was a member of the world-famous Vienna Children's Choir of the Boys' Choir. He trained as a photo businessman and then worked for a year as managing director of a Viennese company. Nettig emigrated to Australia as a 19-year-old, where he worked his way up from being a harvest worker in the sugar cane fields to becoming a salesman . Nettig completed a two-year commercial degree in the USA , where he also worked for a large photography company in Hollywood . When he returned to Austria in 1958, he opened his own photo shop in an abandoned gendarmerie post in Traiskirchen .

Business development and private matters

After only three years, Nettig opened his first branch in Vienna. In 1977, Fotoring Austria Ges.mbH, Austria's largest purchasing association in the photo industry, was established. By 1990 the branch network of his company Foto Nettig had grown to 27 branches . At the beginning of the 1990s, Walter Nettig sold the majority of the shares in his company to the rival company Niedermeyer .

Walter Nettig was the father of two daughters. He was considered a tennis and soccer fan and had a second home in Florida (USA). The shared “tradition” of Walter Nettig and Michael Häupl of opening the “new season on the Old Danube ” together in a pedal boat was popular with journalists and the general public .

Chamber system

Nettig was active in the Austrian Chamber of Commerce from 1970. From 1972 deputy head of the Vienna regional committee, he advanced to the head of the committee in 1982 . Five years later, Nettig became chairman of the trade section in the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, and he was elected President in 1992. He thus succeeded the sick Karl Dittrich . Nettig was President of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce until the end of 2004. Brigitte Jank succeeded him in this position .

Nettig was also chairman of the Vienna VP-Wirtschaftsbund and president of the fund of the Viennese merchants' association .

politics

As an ÖVP politician, Walter Nettig became a local councilor in Vienna in 1987 at the beginning of the 14th electoral term . In 1989 he succeeded Erhard Busek , who moved to the federal government as a minister, as a city ​​councilor in the state government and city senate Zilk II . After the ÖVP's election defeat in 1991, Nettig returned as a member of the city parliament, to which he was a member until 1996. Although Nettig resigned from the municipal council in the Viennese municipal council election on October 13, 1996, the resulting town hall coalition of SPÖ and ÖVP, under Mayor Michael Häupl, was created thanks to Nettig's long-term, friendly contacts with the town hall's “red hemisphere”. In those years, Häupl and Nettig were considered to be the “dream team” of the Viennese economy. Nevertheless, Walter Nettig declined the offer of a city council post. Until the end of his life, he was Häupl's special representative for foreign trade issues with a seat in the Vienna city government, but without voting rights.

honors and awards

literature

  • Claus Pándi: Walter Nettig: a man who went out into the world and conquered his homeland; an Austrian biography. Holzhausen, Vienna, 2005, ISBN 978-3-85493-103-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Nettig passed away. In: ORF.at . September 29, 2020, accessed September 29, 2020 . Vienna Chamber of Commerce : WK Wien-Ruck on Walter Nettig's death: “Great mourning for convinced company representatives”. In: APA-OTS . September 29, 2020, accessed September 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Karl Bulla: Leopoldstädter of the week. In: mein district.at . September 28, 2013, accessed September 29, 2020 . Gerald Wirth was his successor .
  3. ^ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952; P. 1029 (PDF; 6.6 MB).
  4. ^ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952; P. 1415 (PDF; 6.6 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Nice, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur, president of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce and politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 2020
Place of death Vienna