Wolfgang Haider

Wolfgang Haider (born July 4, 1956 in Saalbach-Hinterglemm ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ ) and innkeeper. From 1994 to 1999 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament and its third president from 1997 to 1999.

education and profession

Wolfgang Haider was born in Saalbach-Hinterglemm and attended elementary school in his home town of Saalbach from 1962 to 1966. He then switched to the main ski school in St. Johann im Pongau in 1966 and continued his education there until 1970. From 1970 he graduated from the hotel management school in Bad Hofgastein , which he graduated in 1973. After various internships in the hospitality industry, Haider started his own business in 1976 as a hotelier in Saalbach. He runs the “Haider Chalet-Hotel” here. Haider came under criticism in 2009 in the course of a construction project. Haider had a previous hotel demolished there in order to have 35 apartments built by a Dutch tourism company. As a result, critics feared that the number of second homes in Saalbach would expand further.

Politics and functions

Wolfgang Haider joined the Freedom Party of Austria and acted within the party from 1995 to 1998 as district party leader of the FPÖ in Pinzgau. He was sworn in as a member of the Salzburg state parliament on May 2, 1994, and from 1994 to 1997 he was the club chairman of the FPÖ state parliament club. After Inge Stuchlik , Member of the State Parliament and third President of the State Parliament , resigned from her mandate , Haider was sworn in as the new third President of the State Parliament on November 11, 1997. On April 26, 1999, Haider resigned from the state parliament. After internal power conflicts between Karl Schnell and other top FPÖ functionaries, Wolfgang Haider was named in 200? excluded from the Freedom Party of Austria.

From 1985 to 1994 Haider was a functionary of the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce Tourism Section and between 1998 and 2001 he was chairman of the Saalbach-Hinterglemm Tourist Association.

Awards

• Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Salzburg (1999)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ORF Salzburg Saalbach: Criticism of other second homes, May 14, 2009

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .

Web links

• Haider Chalet Hotel in Saalbach-Hinterglemm