Wolfgang Hager (politician)

Wolfgang Hager (born April 27, 1962 in Tamsweg ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ), freelance writer and editor. From December 1996 to November 2000, Hager was a member of the Austrian Federal Council sent from the state of Styria .

Professional background

Wolfgang Hager was born in Tamsweg in the province of Salzburg in 1962, in the immediate vicinity of his Upper Styrian homeland. After attending elementary and secondary school, Hager completed an upper-level secondary school, which he graduated with the Matura in 1981 . After completing his military service , he began studying German and philosophy, psychology and education at the University of Klagenfurt , which he did not graduate.

As early as 1982, Wolfgang Hager worked as a part-time municipal secretary, and from 1989 also as a freelance writer. He has been publishing the literary magazine ZEITschrift since 1991 , and this editorial activity in 2002 also resulted in the Wolfgang Hager Verlag , in which Hager also worked as a publisher.

Political career

In the 1980s, Wolfgang Hager became involved for the first time in the young generation of the SPÖ , taking on various functions in the SPÖ's local executive committee in his home town of Stolzalpe from 1985 and was elected chairman of the young generation of the SPÖ Murau-Stolzalpe in 1987. Subsequently, the people of his home community Stolzalpe elected him for the first time to the local council in 1990 and in 1991 he became deputy local party chairman of the SPÖ Stolzalpe. In 1993, Wolfgang Hager became a member of the SPÖ's district party committee in the Murau district and, in 1996, he became the executive district chairman of the SPÖ Murau. A year later, in 1997, Wolfgang Hager was elected Vice Mayor of his home town of Stolzalpe.

On December 10, 1996, Wolfgang Hager was sent to the Federal Council by the Styrian Landtag as the successor to his former party colleague Michaela Rösler . Through this function, Hager became a party member of the federal and state party executive of the SPÖ as well as the state party presidium of the SPÖ Styria. In the Federal Council itself, Wolfgang Hager was a member of numerous committees and, among other things, deputy chairman of the Health Committee (1996–1998), the Internal Affairs Committee of the Federal Council (1999–2000) and the Justice Committee (1999–2000). As a result of the state elections in Styria in 2000 , in which the SPÖ suffered slight losses, Wolfgang Hager resigned from the Federal Council on November 6, 2000.

After leaving the Federal Council, Wolfgang Hager continued to be active in local politics and was elected Mayor of Stolzalpe in 2010, before this municipality was joined to Murau on January 1, 2015 as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform .

Web links

• Wolfgang Hager on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Website of the Wolfgang Hager publishing house