Alexander Wrabetz

Alexander Wrabetz ( born March 21, 1960 in Vienna) is Director-General of the public Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ( ORF), Member of the Executive Board of the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU / UER ), Social Democratic Party member and former National Chairman of the Association of Socialist Students of Austria.

Training

Wrabetz attended from 1970 to 1978, the second Bundesgymnasium XIX Vienna. He grew up in a politically FPÖ related parents' home in Vienna Dobling. His father was in the 1970s, attorney for the party. Already during his studies at the University of Vienna from 1978 to 1983 to Wrabetz committed together with the present Chancellor Faymann in the environment of the SPÖ. For the parliamentary election in 1983, he organized the successful election campaign of preferential votes Josef Cap, today's media spokesman and Chairman of the Social Democratic National fraction. From 1983 to 1984 he was National Chairman of the Association of Socialist Students of Austria. With Wrabetz as chairman and top candidates to the Association succeeded in the student union elections in 1983 with 26 % of the vote, the best result in its history.

Career

After graduating and becoming a Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1983 Wrabetz completed his year of court. From 1984 to 1987 he worked in the bank Girozentrale and the Austrian Sparkassen AG. In 1987 he joined as Assistant to the Board in the Austrian industry Verwaltungs-AG (ÖIAG ), was from 1992, Managing Director of Voest Alpine Inter Trading GmbH in Linz and then, from 1995 to 1998, board member of also belonging to ÍIAG VAMED in Vienna. In several companies ÍIAG he served on the board operates and further from 1995 Member of the ORF Advisory Board, the predecessor of today's organ ORF Trustees.

Gerhard Weis, Director General of the ORF from 1998 to 2001, appointed him as commercial director of the company where he confirmed Monika Lindner in your term of office. Due to the outsourcing of the ORF- technology and its sale to a consortium involving the Raiffeisen Group Wrabetz could present the highest operating profit in the history of the ORF in 2005.

ORF General

As a candidate for election to the General Wrabetz Karl Krammer ( SPÖ related parties ) was obtained from the ORF trustees Huberta Gheneff - Prince, Peter Fichtenbauer (both the FPÖ related parties ), and nominated Pius Strobl ( the Greens related parties ). On August 17, 2006, he was elected with 20 of a possible 35 votes to succeed Monika Lindner, who had also applied for the position in the first ballot. Wrabetz ' choice was made by the largely politically occupied Trustees of the ORF: For Wrabetz voted addition to the " circles of friends " of the Social Democratic Party, the Greens and the FPÖ also four out of five Alliance for the Future foundation boards and two of the ÖVP attributed to members of the Foundation Council. He has started work on 1 January 2007. With the start April 10, 2007, he promised the "biggest reform program in the history of ORF ".

In April 2011, he declared to run for re-election in August 2011. On the afternoon of August 9, 2011, he was reappointed as only the second ORF General with 29 of 35 votes. This Wrabetz since 1967 only the second ORF boss after Gerd Bacher, who was re-elected. As a focus of his tenure, he announced the establishment of ORF III, as a cultural niche channels.

On 13 November 2009 under Wrabetz started the in-house online TV library. On October 26, 2011 by 14 clock of the culture division ORF III went on the air.

For Alexander Wrabetz is "the entry into smart TV a centerpiece of the ORF - strategy ".

In December 2011 Wrabetz appointed the previous ORF Foundation Niko Pelinka to his bureau chief.

This appointment was issued without a tender. In the last week of December, it was announced that the tender is to be made up. This approach has attracted criticism from various locations on the personnel policy of General Wrabetz. The former Governor Gabi Burgstaller criticized this as SPÖ functionary as harmful for the ORF.

On January 19, 2012 Pelinka withdrew due to the ongoing protests of the ORF - editors back his candidature for the post.

Family

Alexander Wrabetz is married to the general and sports medicine Petra Wrabetz. The couple has two sons (* 1988 and 1991 ) and a daughter (* 1993).

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