Erhard Busek

Erhard Busek ( born March 25, 1941 in Vienna) is an Austrian politician of the ÖVP and former Vice- Chancellor. Currently (as of January 2009) is the lawyer Board of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, since 2012 Honorary President of the European Forum Alpbach and a board member of the initiative A Soul for Europe.

Life

His political career began Busek in 1964 after completing his studies at the University of Vienna, as the second club secretary of the People's Party in Parliament. From 1969 to 1972 he was Deputy Secretary-General and from 1972 to 1976 Secretary General of the Austrian Economic Association.

During the chancellorship of Bruno Kreisky, he was 1975/76 ordered the ÖVP General Secretary and moved in 1976 to Vienna State party, which he gave a green image at the beginning of the environmental movement ( " colorful birds "). Until 1989 he was state party chairman of the Viennese ÖVP 1978 to 1987 he was Vice- Mayor and Governor Deputy Governor of Vienna.

1989 Busek was appointed Federal Minister for Science and Research in the Austrian government under Chancellor Franz Vranitzky ( SPÖ). In 1991 he was elected to succeed Josef Riegler for federal party chairman of the Austrian People's Party ( ÖVP).

As a federal party leader was Busek - like many of his predecessors - including government leaders to. From 1991 to 1995 he was Vice-Chancellor in the grand coalition with the Social Democrats and the same time the Federal Minister for Science and Research (until 1994 ) and Federal Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs ( 1994-1995).

In 1995 he was replaced as party leaders of the ÖVP by Wolfgang bowl. His dismissal is the result of a campaign by Dichand, the then editor of the Kronen Zeitung. In the documentary Kronen Zeitung - every day a boulevard piece Busek says: " Regardless of the Kronen Zeitung I was getting, but I 've paid a price for it. This is of course the price compared to those who have come to terms with the Kronen Zeitung, which is the price they will pay under his own party people also because it there is an opinion against the Kronen Zeitung one can not exist actually. "

In the following years he devoted himself increasingly to its Central European and cultural interests and took over the chairmanship of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe. Since 1996 he has been coordinator of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative ( SECI) and was from 2000 to 2002 Government Commissioner for the EU enlargement. From January 2002 to June 2008 he was Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.

In July 2002, Erhard Busek was invited to open the 5th European Symposium Kaisersteinbruch with a keynote speech. Both Bulgaria and Estonia were not yet to the European Union.

Busek is counted for Catholic- liberal wing of the Austrian People's Party, was, and in his party as a critical intellectual and also works as a publicist. In his publications he treats mainly the international role of Austria, especially in Central Europe, the cultural policies and cooperation with Eastern neighboring countries. He was up to the time of the change in 1989 engaged in the support of dissident movements with which he in their new roles through the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe will cooperate after 1989 (since 1995 as president ). Since 2000 President of the European Forum Alpbach ( EFA), since 2005 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the First Foundation. In 1995 he took over the management of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra ( BMJO ), where Claudio Abbado 's musical director.

Since October 22, 2004 Erhard Busek was the first rector of the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg. In spring 2011 he Kerstin Fink followed in this position. Busek is a visiting professor at Duke University and Chairman of the University Council of the Medical University of Vienna.

Together with the ÖVP politicians like Andreas Khol and Herbert Kohl Maier, he founded a Catholic layman alliance that calls for the abolition of compulsory celibacy in the Roman Catholic priesthood and the ordination of women deacons.

Annual contests Busek since 2002 together with Oliver Vujovic from the South East Europe Media Organisation ( SEEMO ) the Dr. Erhard Busek SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe. Since 2005, Busek is Chairman of the Trustees of the FIRST Foundation.

Awards

Erhard Busek received honorary doctorates from the Montan University in Krakow, and the Universities of Bratislava, Chernivtsi, Ruse, Brasov, Liberec and the Webster -St. Louis University in Vienna. He holds awards from Poland, Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, Liechtenstein, Romania and the Czech Republic, is an honorary senator of the Innsbruck Medical University, and was awarded the Prize of the European Institute Corvinus Budapest.

Quotes

  • "Fortunately dwindling knowledge of Latin, otherwise the citizen would know that the Ministry " service " means. " (E. Busek 2000)
  • " Weiterratifizieren would be a load of nonsense. Would be important to analyze the Forthcoming. Then you came it, that the rulers have left are not only in the Constitution but in the whole development .... All citizens have operated as a poacher, that's the problem " (E. Busek in June 2005 after the rejection of the European Constitution by France and the Netherlands)

Writings

  • With Meinrad Peterlik: The unfinished Republic. Publisher of History and Politics, 1968.
  • Gerhard Wilflinger: critique of democracy - democracy reform. In 1969.
  • With Christian Festa and Inge Gorner: On the way to qualitative market economy. Oldenbourg, München 1975, ISBN 3-486-44351-8.
  • (Ed.): The courage to walk upright. Contributions to a different kind of politics. Herold, Vienna 1983.
  • Emil Brix: Project Central Europe. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-8000-3227-9.
  • Wolfgang Mantl and Meinrad Peterlik: Science and Freedom. Ideas for University and universality. Oldenbourg, Vienna-Munich 1989.
  • Home policy with seat in life. Brain Trust, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-901116-10-9.
  • With Rudolf Bretschneider: Man in word. Speeches and essays. Atelie, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85308-004-9.
  • Central Europe: A forensics. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00633-3.
  • Martin Schauer ( ed.): A European arousal. The "sanctions" against the Fourteen Austria in 2000. Analysis and commentary. Böhlau, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-77121-4.
  • The frontier worker. Festschrift for Hans Marte. Wieser, 2000, ISBN 3-85129-323-1.
  • Georg Winckler, Konrad Paul Liessmann and Hans- Uwe Erichsen: The future of the university. Wuv, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85114-551-8.
  • Central Europe Almanac, Hungary. Molden 2002, ISBN 3-85485-070-0.
  • Austria and the Balkans. Molden 2002, ISBN 3-85485-020-4.
  • Open gate eastward. Molden 2003, ISBN 3-85485-092-1.
  • With Werner Mikulich: The European Union on the way to the east. Molden 2003, ISBN 3-85129-405- X.
  • Dagmar Abfalter: culture and economy. Studies, 2004, ISBN 3-7065-1906-2.
  • Too little, too late. Europe needs a better crisis management. Körber Foundation, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89684-131-5.
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