Wolfgang Jung

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Wolfgang Jung (born March 15, 1948 in Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ ) as well as a former officer ( brigadier ) of the federal army and defense attaché . Jung was a member of the National Council , a member of the European Parliament and from November 2005 to the end of 2018 a member of the Vienna State Parliament and Municipal Council . He is assigned to the German national wing of the FPÖ.

Training and military

Wolfgang Jung attended the Bad Wimsbach elementary school from 1954 to 1958 and completed his school education in 1967 with the Matura at the Bad Ischl Realgymnasium . Jung then did his military service from 1967 to 1968 and then attended the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt between 1968 and 1971 . From 1971 to 1979 he was platoon and company commander with Panzerbataillon 14 in Wels and was during this period on a UN assignment abroad in Cyprus (1976). From 1979 to 1982 Jung trained as a general staff officer at the National Defense Academy (LVAk) in Vienna and was then deployed as chief of staff of the 4th Panzer Grenadier Brigade in Ebelsberg from 1982 to 1985 . From 1985 to 1990 he served as a defense attaché in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Jung was subsequently employed as a General Staff Officer (G3) in the Panzergrenadier Division in Baden near Vienna from 1990 to 1991 and at the Heeres-Nachrichtenamt (HNaA) from 1992 to 1996 . In 1994 he was promoted to brigadier. From 1996 he was employed in various areas at the National Defense Academy and the Ministry of Defense , including as head of the attaché department and most recently in the office for security policy.

politics

Wolfgang Jung joined the Ring Freedom Youth Austria (RFJ) while he was still at school in 1963 and was local councilor and local party leader of the FPÖ Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting from 1972 to 1976 . Jung was from November 13, 1995 to January 14, 1996 ( XIX. GP ) as well as on April 26, 1996 ( XX. GP ) and from November 12, 1996 to December 19, 2002 (XX. And XXI. GP ) for the FPÖ member of the National Council. From 2000 to 2002 he was chairman of the national defense committee. Between April 26, 1996 and November 11, 1996, he was also a member of the European Parliament for the FPÖ, where he was a full member of the committees for foreign affairs, security and defense policy and rules of procedure, election reviews and questions of immunity. As a result of his professional move to Vienna, Jung became increasingly involved in Vienna district politics. In 1998 he was elected district party chairman of the FPÖ Vienna-Liesing and was district councilor in Liesing from 1991 to 1996. On November 18, 2005, Jung moved to the Vienna Landtag as a member of parliament for the Liesing constituency ( 18th , 19th and 20th WP ). On January 24, 2019, Roman Schmid succeeded him as a member of the Vienna State Parliament and a member of the Vienna City Council.

Wolfgang Jung appeared as a speaker at rallies of the right-wing extremist citizens' movement pro Cologne in 2009 and 2011 .

corporation

He is the old man of the Pennal -conservative association Albia Bad Ischl and the Wiking Academic Round Table in Wiener Neustadt. On the occasion of the 2011 anniversary of the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , Jung gave the substitute funeral speech for Heinz-Christian Strache at the publicly controversial “ Commemoration of the Dead ” of the Wiener Korporationsring (WKR) on Heldenplatz in Vienna.

He also worked as an author for the right-wing extremist Austrian monthly magazine Die Aula .

Private

Wolfgang Jung is married and has two children.

Awards

Discussion panels

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FP-Mahdalik: Roman Schmid sworn in as successor of Wolfgang Jung in the Vienna City Council . OTS announcement of January 24, 2019, accessed on January 24, 2019.
  2. ↑ Blue who's who and Schmisse: Strache's beating fraternities are back , in: News , December 1, 2005.
  3. ^ Right "commemoration of the dead" without Strache . in: Der Standard , May 8, 2011.
  4. ^ Die Aula , Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance , accessed on August 10, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the National Council, Vienna State Parliament and MEP
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting