Christian Buchmann

Christian Buchmann ( born September 27, 1962 in Graz) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP) and since 2005 Minister for Economy, Europe, and culture in Styria.

Life and career

Buchmann made ​​in 1981 Graduated from Bundesgymnasium Carnerigasse Graz, and then military service. Then he took a degree in economics at the Karl- Franzens- University of Graz and University of California Los Angeles ( UCLA). In 1998, his Master's degree in Social and Economic Sciences, and in 2000 the Doctor of Social Sciences and Economics.

Buchmann took over from 1978 to 1981 positions in the student council. In the period between 1987 and 1992 he was chairman of the Young ÖVP city of Graz and 1990-1993 Federal Financial Officer of the JVP. From 1998 to 2003 Buchmann worked as club vice-president in the council of the City of Graz. In 2004 he took the post of the chairman of the Graz Economic Association, which he remained until 2008. Since 2007, Christian Buchmann Deputy Federal Party ÖVP chairman and since 2008 chairman of the National Committee Styrian Economic Association.

He began his career in 1982 as National Secretary of the Young ÖVP Styria. From 1988 to 1993 he worked as Gremialgeschäftsführer, commercial and environmental officer of the Trade section of the Styrian Chamber of Commerce. In 1994, Buchmann took office as the head of the district office of Graz, the emergency service bureaucracy, the founder Services Styrian Chamber of Commerce, which he held until 2003. In the period from 2002 to 2003, he was also managing director of the division of information Consulting Styrian Chamber of Commerce. Christian Buchmann was appointed Councillor of Economy, Science and Culture in Graz 2003. On 25 October 2005, finally, he was elected to the National Council of Economy, Innovation and Finance Styria. After the state elections in Styria 2010 Christian Buchmann was confirmed on 21 October 2010 as a member of the Styrian Provincial Government, he received the Departments Business, Europe, and culture. The finance department went to Bettina Vollath of the SPÖ.