Wolfgang Zanger

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Wolfgang Zanger (born December 4, 1968 in Knittelfeld ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ ). Since October 2006 he has been a member of the Austrian National Council .

biography

From 1975 to 1979 Wolfgang Zanger attended the elementary school in Knittelfeld and from 1979 to 1987 the Bundesgymnasium or Bundesrealgymnasium Knittelfeld. From 1987 to 1989 he studied technical chemistry in Graz. He then did military service and from 1990 worked as a bank clerk.

He has been married for the second time since 2018 and has two sons from the first marriage.

Zanger is a member of the Corps Austria Knittelfeld student association in the ÖPR and the Corps Vandalia Graz in the KSCV .

Political career

In 2001 he joined the FPÖ Knittelfeld as deputy district chairman. He is the local group chairman in Lobmingtal ; from 2005 local council in Großlobming and district chairman of the FPÖ Knittelfeld.

He was elected to the Austrian National Council for the FPÖ in the 2006 National Council election. Since then, as a member of parliament, he has come under criticism several times for his crude choice of words in parliamentary debates.

Controversy

Zanger made on 7 November 2006 with an interview in the ORF telecast The report for excitement as he the story of a German contemporary witness of the Nazi regime reproduced, saw not all bad at the former regime but also positives reported. When asked “whether there were also good sides to National Socialism”, Zanger said: “Of course there were good sides to National Socialism, but we all no longer hear them today. Everyone was longing for employment, for a little hope, and when the Führer came along, who then started with various building ideas or road construction - the highways were built back then - that gave people hope. And I do believe that in such a situation where you are really at the bottom, people gratefully accept all of this. "

In 2016, Zanger was a speaker at an event organized by the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement .

At the end of October 2019, Zanger came under fire after texts from a song book from 2005 by the German national pennal Corps Austria zu Knittelfeld (according to Zanger a gift from the Grazer Burschenschaft Cheruskia ) were published in the Kronen Zeitung . In one of the songs it says "Heil Hitler, you old Germans", in another Austria is referred to as "Land of the pushers", "Land of the creeps" and "Bribes money". Another song describes " Rothschild " as the "biggest pig" (the name of the Rothschild family is synonymous in right-wing extremist circles for an alleged Jewish world conspiracy and greed). Zanger is a member of the corps concerned and admitted to owning a copy of this songbook. He distanced himself from National Socialism and anti-Semitism in general, but not from the songbook, because, according to Zanger, he could not distance himself from something that he had not written himself. He has to "serve again" as "enemy number 1". In December 2019, the National Council granted a request by the Leoben public prosecutor's office, which is investigating Zanger on suspicion of violating the Prohibition Act .

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Pfister: Celebrated with friends for half a century. In: mein district.at . December 11, 2018, accessed February 5, 2020.
  2. ^ "Drunk MP": FPÖ politician comments on media allegations. In: diepresse.com . April 19, 2018, accessed February 5, 2020.
  3. ^ Concern for political culture in the National Council. In: kurier.at . March 30, 2019, accessed April 1, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Oliver Das Gupta: And again a songbook scandal. In: sueddeutsche.de . October 31, 2019, accessed February 5, 2020.
  5. ↑ Stephan Löwenstein: FPÖ songbook scandal: parody and provocation. In: faz.net . November 2, 2019, accessed February 5, 2020.
  6. ↑ Eric Frey: The new songbook affair is a problem for the FPÖ boss. In: derstandard.de . October 31, 2019, accessed February 5, 2020.
  7. ^ Songbook affair: Justice may take action against Wolfgang Zanger. In: tt.com . December 11, 2019, accessed February 5, 2020.
  8. ↑ Staff news . In wienerzeitung.at . August 9, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Zanger, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Knittelfeld