Wolfgang Peschorn

Wolfgang Peschorn (2019)

Wolfgang Peschorn (born May 17, 1965 in Vienna ) is an Austrian civil servant and former politician . From June 3, 2019 to January 7, 2020, he was Federal Minister of the Interior in the Bierlein Federal Government . Since 2006 he has been President of the Financial Procuratorate, with interruptions for the duration of his work as Minister .

Life

Wolfgang Peschorn grew up in Graz and Vienna . After graduating from the GRG7 Kandlgasse , he studied law at the University of Vienna and trained as a clarinetist. He completed his law studies in 1988. In 2005 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the financial procurator for a doctor of law .

In 1991 he entered the legal service of the Financial Procuratorate . In 1995 he passed the bar exam and in 1997 the power of attorney examination. In 2006 he was appointed President of the Financial Procuratorate by Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser .

Wolfgang Peschorn (left) at the swearing-in of President Alexander Van der Bellen (2019)

On June 3, 2019, he was appointed Federal Minister of the Interior in the Bierlein Federal Government . On January 7, 2020, Karl Nehammer succeeded him as Minister of the Interior of the Federal Government Kurz II , and Peschorn was again head of the Financial Procuratorate.

Publications (selection)

• The history of the financial procurator . In: Manfred Kremser: lawyer and advisor to the republic. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Austrian Financial Procuratorate , Orac Verlag, Vienna 1995. (PDF file; 182 kB)

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Peschorn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wolfgang Peschorn ( Memento from July 12, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) on the BMI website
• Wolfgang Peschorn on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Wolfgang Peschorn on meineabektiven.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: The new ministers in brief . Article dated June 2, 2019, accessed June 2, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Minister of the Interior: curriculum vitae. Retrieved July 12, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Wolfgang Peschorn on the websites of the Austrian Parliament
4. ↑ ^{a b} Transitional period for the transitional ministers: Who will be what? In: DerStandard.at . January 8, 2020, accessed January 9, 2020 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Kleine Zeitung: Declaration of war on the "advisors who damage the republic" . Article dated February 18, 2017, accessed June 2, 2019.
6. ↑ Financial Procuratorate. In: Austrian National Library . Retrieved November 8, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Dr. Wolfgang Peschorn. In: my delegates. Retrieved November 8, 2019 . 
8. ^ Lawyer and advisor to the Republic . Retrieved June 2, 2019.
9. ↑ Dr. Wolfgang Peschorn appointed as the new head of the Financial Procuratorate . OTS bulletin of April 20, 2006, accessed June 2, 2019.