Wolfgang Matt (politician)

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Wolfgang Matt (born September 16, 1955 ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). He has been the mayor of the district capital Feldkirch in Vorarlberg since March 2019 .

Life

Wolfgang Matt is a trained banker . Since 1990 he has been active in local politics, initially as a substitute member of the city council, from 1995 to 2002 as a member of the city council and mayor of Altenstadt . From 2003 to 2019 he was city ​​councilor responsible for finance and assets, economy and tourism, and agriculture and forestry.

After Barbara Schöbi-Fink moved to the Wallner II state government , he became Vice Mayor of Feldkirch in March 2018. In February 2019, Wilfried Berchtold handed over the chairmanship of the Feldkirch People's Party to Wolfgang Matt. On March 12, 2019, Matt was elected mayor of Feldkirch as successor to Berchtold by the city council with 22 out of 36 votes. Gudrun Petz-Bechter succeeded him as Vice Mayor.

Matt lives in Altenstadt with his wife, with whom he has two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c City of Feldkirch: Mayor Wolfgang Matt . Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Matt is to become the new mayor of Feldkirch. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . December 17, 2017, accessed March 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Gernot Schweigkofler: Feldkirch People's Party starts rejuvenation. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten . February 22, 2019, accessed March 13, 2019 .
  4. ^ Change of mayor in Feldkirch. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . March 12, 2019, accessed March 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Matt, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), Mayor of Feldkirch
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1955