Walter Thaler

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Walter Thaler (born October 30, 1941 in St. Johann im Pongau ) is a former Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and high school director. From 1982 to 2004 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament and its second president from 1993 to 1999.

education and profession

Thaler attended elementary school between 1947 and 1951 and continued his education from 1951 at the Bundesrealgymnasium in St. Johann im Pongau. After graduating from high school in 1960, he studied English , German and philosophy at the University of Innsbruck from 1960 . In addition, he taught from 1963 to 1965 at the Hotel Management School Villa Bianca and at the Higher Technical Federal Teaching and Research Institute in Innsbruck. He completed his studies in 1965 with the academic degree Mag. Phil. and passed the teaching examination. In 1965 he became a teacher at the Bundesrealgymnasium Zell am See as well as at the BORG in Mittersill.In Zell am See he also held the office of school director from 1978 to 2000. He then studied political science at the University of Salzburg, where he obtained his doctorate in philosophy in 2005.

Politics and functions

Thaler headed the Salzburg Adult Education Center in Zell am See between 1967 and 1982 and was Deputy Chairman of the University Advisory Board of the University of Salzburg from 1999 to 2002. In 1999 he also took on the role of deputy chairman of the board of the Salzburg Adult Education Center. In 2003 he also became deputy chairman of the board of trustees of the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg and in 2005 deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the “Museum der Moderne - Rupertinum Betriebsges.mbH”. In the Social Democratic Party, he worked between 1971 and 1982 as city party chairman of the SPÖ in Zell am See, and in 1992 he was promoted to deputy district party chairman of the SPÖ Pinzgau. Within the party, he was also active as the state chairman of the Working Group of Social Democratic Municipal Representatives (ASG) from 1986 to 2000 and from 1982 chairman of the SPÖ parliamentary group in the state school board. At the state level, he was elected a member of the state party executive committee in 1984, where he held the office of deputy state party chairman of the SPÖ Salzburg from 1993 to 2005. Thaler was elected to the municipal council of Zell am See in 1969 and was Vice Mayor from 1974 to 1982. He directed the fortunes of Zell am See from 1982 to 1993 as mayor and was also sworn in on May 12, 1982 as a member of the Salzburg state parliament. In the SPÖ parliamentary group he worked between 1989 and 1991 as deputy club chairman and from 1999 to 2004 as club chairman, in between he was second president of the Salzburg state parliament from October 20, 1993 to April 26, 1999.

Since November 6, 2008, Thaler has been the honorary consul of the Republic of South Africa for the state of Salzburg.

Walter Thaler has been Honorary Senator of the Paracelsus Medical Private University in Salzburg since October 24, 2016.

Works

  • Gerhard Buchleitner. A political life. Salzburg, Linz 2000.
  • Badly affected - little noticed. Social democracy in Salzburg communities. Talks with Salzburg mayors. Salzburg 1999 (= series of publications by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialdemokratischer Gemeindevetereter (ASG) Salzburg, Volume 1).
  • Literature 1 and 2. Outline of the literature of the German-speaking area from its beginnings to the present. 2 volumes, 3rd edition, Vienna 1987 (together with Herbert Pochlatko and Karl Koweindl).
  • Tied giants. Change from proportional to majority system in Salzburg and Tyrol. Vienna 2006 (= Studies on Political Reality 17).
  • The soul as an image. Evi Fersterer , Mystical Realism 1979, 2006. Saalbach 2006.
  • Shooting stars and fixed stars in politics. Career changer in Salzburg . Vienna 2008 (= studies on political reality 22).
  • Courage and will. Salzburg's social democracy 1960 - 2010 . Vienna 2010.
  • Paths to Power. How to become a top politician in Austria . Vienna 2012.
  • Haters loyal to home. Writer and Politics in Austria. A political reading book . Vienna 2013.
  • Art and literature in Pinzgau. The power of the province - 43 portraits . Vienna 2015.
  • Pinzgauer! Heroes - fools - pioneers. Portraits from the provinces . Vienna: newacademicpress, 2017
  • Pongauer! Paths of life and suffering. 60 portraits from the provinces. Vienna: newacademicpress. 2019

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Thaler, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the Salzburg state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johann im Pongau