Erwin Pröll

Erwin Pröll (born 24 December 1946 in decorative village Radlbrunn, Lower Austria ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP) and since 1992 the country of Lower Austria.

Life

The parents of Erwin Pröll were wine growers. He attended elementary school in Radlbrunn and the main school in decorative village. After leaving school in Tulln, he studied at the Vienna University of Natural Resources. Pröll is an agricultural economist with the academic degree Dipl. -Ing. and Dr. nat. techn. Even before his graduation in 1972 he was brought to the Austrian Farmers' Federation as an economic consultant. At 33, he was elected state government in the northeast since January 1981 as the country's Deputy Governor. On October 22, 1992 Pröll Governor of Lower Austria. He is among the currently in Austria in the service provincial governors the longest serving.

Pröll is married and father of four children. He is the uncle of the former Austrian Minister of Finance and Vice Chancellor Josef Pröll.

Pröll is an honorary member of the Ö.k.a.V. Rhaeto - Danubia Vienna, the K.Ö.H.V. Franco -Sydney Vienna and the K.Ö.A.V. Floriana St. Pölten in the Austrian Cartellverband ( ACA ) and in K.Ö.Agr.St.V. Bergland to Wiesel castle in the MKV.

Political career

• National Council of 27 March 1980 to 22 January 1981
• State Deputy Governor January 22, 1981 to October 21, 1992
• Governor since October 22, 1992

Political action

During his tenure, the relocation of the Lower Austrian provincial government of Vienna fell into the St. Pölten country house district.

Pröll renowned as an advocate of the so-called grand coalition of ÖVP and SPÖ. In 2000 he was still a supporter of black and blue, two years later, he spoke out against a renewed alliance with the FPÖ. Pröll also maintains a good relationship with the Mayor of Vienna Michael Häupl ( SPÖ). Pröll applicable in the ÖVP as one of the most influential politicians of both public likes to take against the federal ÖVP. So led Pröll federal policy lowering the maximum number of students on a 25, presented an independent nursing model or a model school for Lower Austria.

In the environmental policy Pröll va sat on waste prevention and waste separation. Pröll developed village renewal and later urban renewal. What in the fall of 1981 " beautifully preserved NE - We make nice " with the action began, soon developed into a large civic movement. This initiative is now a Europe-wide initiative. Pröll objectives were to strengthen the economy and quality of life of the population and improve the situation in rural areas. Lower Austria should become a model region in the heart of Europe. The opening of Eastern Europe, the fall of the Iron Curtain, used Pröll and enforced vigorously the development of infrastructure and the settlement of the promising companies in Lower Austria. Thus arose commercial and industrial parks that encourage business location and help create new jobs should. Even as a young member of the country's government pursued Pröll environmental issues and called for a CO2 tax.

Pröll planned in Lower Austria Handymast control caused a Europe-wide excitement and interest. This tax was first decided by a vote of the ÖVP and SPÖ, built on common following an agreement with the mobile operators and used mast but again abolished, which was welcomed by EU Commissioner Viviane Reding.

2003 drove Pröll with the People's Party Lower Austria a great victory in the state elections and reached 53.3 percent, which the People's Party again won an absolute majority. Projects such as the Campus Krems, the Cancer Research Center MedAustron in Wiener Neustadt, the Research Tulln, the economic and industrial park industrial center of northeast South, the first biofuel plant in Austria in Tulln field, the elite university in Klosterneuburg or the award of Lower Austria by the EU Commission as the most innovative Europe region form the balance of the Minister.

In the first half of 2006 he hosted a conference on subsidiarity of EU politicians.

In the Lower Austrian state election 2008 Pröll as top candidates, the ÖVP reached 54.39 % of the votes and thus the absolute majority and 1.1 % pts more than in 2003. Principal motives for the ÖVP - voters were the top candidate Pröll and the good development of Lower Austria. In the election campaign, prominent personalities for Pröll had expressed, including " not too bourgeois artists such as the cartoonist Manfred Deix and actress Erika Pluhar ," but also the Austrian football team, Josef Hickersberger, the festival director Harald Serafin and the actor Felix Dvorak. During the election campaign Pröll had spoken out against the construction of minarets in Lower Austria and these are referred to as " different species", and he had proposed to publish the criminal records of asylum seekers.

In advance of the presidential election in 2010 Pröll was touted as a possible candidate of the ÖVP. However, he said in an interview on 13 October 2009 not to want to run for the office of president.

Criticism

A major criticism of Pröll handling criticism is the alleged appropriation of media, particularly the ORF Lower Austria and Lower Austria messages; critical reports would be answered with the threat of the withdrawal of friendly display business enterprises. Peter Rabl wrote in the Austrian newspaper Kurier: " Pröll has led the country very successfully with strong, sometimes brutal hand, but with great personal openness and width. Significantly, drop the campaigners of the other parties of any factual allegations against the former national politics. " Pröll was in the Wiener Zeitung as" " describes the " traditional power politics an almost legendary bonhomie " surround that " however often only up to the first critical question " was continuing, so it is "not always easy with Erwin Pröll " had journalists. Gerald John from Standard summed it up this way: "Who, aufmuckt at the wrong time by the pastor to journalists, is sometimes chewed out. Contradiction is not provided in Pröll political microcosm. "

Trivia

Pröll claim to have finished reading a single book by Karl May Treasure of Silver Lake, the former provincial party secretary Ernst Strasser won from rants. " The like the Leut ' " Strasser should have rebuked a skeptic, "that affects the Governor at least net so oberg scheit. "

Awards and honorary memberships (excerpt)

• Leopold Cross in Gold
• Golden Commander's Cross with Star of Honour for Services to the province of Lower Austria
• Decoration of the Jordanian independence Order
• Grand Cross of the Royal Netherlands Merit of Orange- Nassau
• Grand Cross of the Royal Spanish Order of Civil Merit
• Grand Cross of the Pope Gregory the Great
• Great Cross of Merit with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the City of Vienna (1998)
• Grand Silver Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria (1997)
• Grand Gold Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria (2005)
• Bavarian Europe Medal ( 2008)
• Ring of honor of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ( 2009)
• Honorary membership of the Lower Austrian Kameradschaftsbund (2010)
• Grand Cross of the Princely Liechtenstein Order of Merit (2012 )
• Grand Decoration of the state of Upper Austria (2012 )
• Grand Order of Merit of the South Tyrol (2013 )