Wolfgang Rauter

Wolfgang Rauter (born January 11, 1954 in Khorramshahr , southern Iran ) is an Austrian judge and politician. The former regional councilor , member of the regional parliament and club leader of the FPÖ Burgenland founded the platform Freie Bürgerliste (FBL) with Manfred Kölly in 2007, which took part in the municipal elections in Burgenland in 2007 and achieved a total of 30 municipal council mandates.

Professional career

Wolfgang Rauter was born in 1954 in southern Iran as the son of the doctor Leonhard Rauter and his wife Maria, a native Italian. He lived in Ethiopia for five years and then moved with his family to Eisenstadt . Rauter studied law in Vienna and completed his studies in 1977 with a doctorate. In 1981 Rauter was appointed judge and began working at the Eisenstadt Regional Court in 1982, which he retired in 2017.

Political career

Rauter began his political career in 1987 as a career changer and FPÖ top candidate for the state elections. Rauter entered the state parliament with two members of parliament that same year. In 1988 Rauter was elected party leader of the FPÖ Burgenland. In the state elections in 1996, the FPÖ won two additional mandates and one seat of government. Rauter rose thereby to the state council. In 1997 Rauter resigned from the state council and returned as a member of the state parliament. Rauter managed to establish himself as the club boss and took over the chairmanship of the committee of inquiry into the Bank Burgenland affair . After the defeat of the FPÖ in the state elections in 2000, party chairman Stefan Salzl, with the support of the then FPÖ federal chairwoman, Vice Chancellor Susanne Riess-Passer, raised the claim to the club leadership. Rauter then resigned his state parliament mandate and returned to the profession of judge. After Manfred Kölly was expelled from the FPÖ in December 2006 due to the publication of a secret FPÖ / SPÖ paper, the former state party leader Rauter criticized the incumbent FPÖ leader Tschürtz and announced a candidacy for the post of state party leader. Ultimately, Rauter surprisingly withdrew his candidacy at a special party conference called on March 7, 2007. Tschürtz was subsequently confirmed with 65 of 68 votes, but many of the 96 delegates entitled to vote had left the hall after Rauter's speech.

After the internal quarrels, in spring 2007 Rauter founded the platform “ Free Citizens List ” (FBL) with the mayor of German Kreutz , Manfred Kölly , which ran for around 450 candidates in around 60 municipalities in the 2007 municipal council elections in Burgenland. In the municipality of Großhöflein , Rauter achieved 18.1% of the votes and four municipal council mandates with the FBL. In the direct mayor elections, Rauter received 22.2% of the vote. In July 2014, Rauter announced in an interview with ORF that he would retire from the office of mayor of Großhöflein.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burgenland People's Newspaper (BVZ)
2. ↑ ORF Burgenland
3. ↑ ORF Burgenland bang: Rauter withdraws, Tschürtz remains boss, March 7, 2007
4. ↑ ORF Burgenland
5. ^ Provincial election service Burgenland
6. ↑ ORF Burgenland

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 2: (1945–1995) (= Burgenland Research. 76). Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 1996, ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .
• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 3: (1996-2001) (= Burgenland Research. 84). Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 2001, ISBN 3-901517-29-4 .

Web links

• ORF Burgenland "From the bench back to politics?"