Hubert Gorbach
Hubert Gorbach ( born July 27, 1956 in Frastanz, Vorarlberg, Austria) was an Austrian Vice-Chancellor ( FPÖ first, then AAF ) and Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology in the Federal Government Bowl II
Political career
He completed his schooling at a commercial college graduation in 1977 in Feldkirch. Professionally, he served as Export Manager, Managing Director and board member in a company, politically as federal chairman of the ring Libertarian Youth, district party leader and deputy federal party leader of the Freedom Party. Prior to the occupation of Hainburg wetlands Gorbach 1984 was one of the participants of the press conference of the animals and entered as a " Bluethroat " on. From 1989 to 1993 he represented the Freedom Party as a deputy in the Vorarlberg Landtag. On 6 October 1993 Gorbach moved for the retired from the State Government of Vorarlberg party colleague Hans -Dieter Grabher according as the provincial government, from 1999 he was a state governor in the state government.
Entry into federal politics
From February 28 2003 to January 11, 2007 Gorbach was Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology, from 21 October 2003, he also held the post of Vice Chancellor, in which he replaced Herbert Haupt. In that capacity, he served as minister Gerhard Sailer secretary. Gorbach was known among other things for the "Tempo 160 sample track " on the Tauern motorway and its application for approval of a blue light.
On 5 April 2005, he appeared, along with other top officials of the Freedom Party, the newly founded party " Alliance for the Future of Austria ( AAF ) " by Jörg Haider.
As on 11 April 2005 a representative of the FPÖ Vorarlberg (which had not joined the AAF and later declared their independence ) the exclusion Gorbakh from the party claimed that this was his critics before and resigned from the FPÖ.
Following the disastrous defeats of the AAF in regional elections in Styria and Vienna, he took over the executive presidency of the party.
End of July 2006 he concluded from a candidacy as the leading candidate of the AAF Vorarlberg for the parliamentary elections in Austria in 2006.
During his tenure, he sold in his capacity as Minister of Infrastructure ÖBB- Bodenseeschifffahrt to the consortium VLB consisting of Illwerke and the tourism company Walter Klaus.
Career transition
After retiring from politics, he transferred to the private sector as a manager of the group of companies of the tourism entrepreneur Walter Klaus. After only four months, he left the company and then founded his own consulting company Gorbach Consulting, with whom he cared for infrastructure projects in Russia and Belarus, among others. Since 2009, Gorbach is also President of the Schneiakademie, a continuing education provider for snowmaking technology.
Furor aroused his letter to the British finance minister Alistair Darling, in which he " is too small in Vorarlberg The world" his professional situation described with the note. For this project, Gorbach used his old stationery as Vice-Chancellor, with the Austrian state insignia, handwritten with " retired " for " out of service " supplements. This approach was strongly criticized by politicians and media in Austria, also an administrative prosecution was not initially excluded, but after a short pursuit kilometer. Even the British newspaper The Guardian and the Financial Times commented on the letter unusually mocking him and published excerpts. From the Austrian Translators and Interpreters Association of Universitas letter to the Exchequer Darling was named the " evil -setting season ."
In December 2010, Gorbach was, as he explained at the invitation of the local Foreign Minister Syarhey Martynau, as election observers of the presidential elections in Belarus in 2010 in Minsk. While observers of the OSCE held fast in its report that the elections do not meet an democratic standards, he certified the ballot, insofar as he watched him, " Western European standards completely satisfied " to have.
In August 2011 it was announced that Gorbach is suspected, the revision of the Universal Service Ordinance ( UDVO, regulates the nationwide minimum coverage requirements with telecommunications services ) in 2006 as a minister within the meaning of the Telekom Austria carried out and to have it after his retirement from the office of minister of the company with 264,000 euros to be paid. This complaint is part of the Telekom affair. By Josef Bucher, chairman of the AAF, he was subsequently expelled from the party.
Awards (excerpt)
- 2006: Carinthian provincial Order in Gold
- 2007: Grand Gold Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria