Josef Buchner

Josef Buchner ( born March 2, 1942 in Hagenberg im Mühlkreisautobahn ) is an Austrian politician. The former municipal employees was between 1986 and 1990 Member of the Austrian National Council and the 1983-1994 leader of the United Greens of Austria ( VGÖ ). Buchner is now mayor of the municipality Steyregg.

Education and work

Josef Buchner graduated from the elementary and secondary school as well as the Bundesrealgymnasium for professionals in Linz, where he graduated with the Matura. After Buchner worked as VÖEST - workers and then moved as a church official (head of construction and Economic Department ) for the municipality Steyregg.

Policy

Josef Buchner was originally native to the Social Democratic Party and was active in the 1970s in his home town against Steyregg caused by the VÖEST air pollution. Founded by him Steyregger citizens' initiative for environmental protection (SBU ) reached in 1979 18 % of the vote already in their first appearance at the Steyregger municipal elections. Buchner was vice mayor of Steyregg in the sequence. In the early 1980s Buchner became involved with the United Greens of Austria, and was elected on 19 February 1983, Deputy Chairman of the party. After the failure of the party in the parliamentary elections in 1983 with 1.93% under Alexander Tollmann Buchner took over on June 26, 1983 Federal Presidency. Buchner succeeded in consolidating the party and streamlined the organization. Further resolved a work based on the eco-social market economy party program Buchner. However, party alliances with the alternatives list had little success, only in Vorarlberg succeeded in gaining the state parliament. In Upper Austria Buchner failed in 1985, however, in the elections to the Landtag. Ultimately, it did come to an alliance between the bourgeois VGÖ and the left, the green camp. Buchner received by one of the top list places on the list of Freda Meissner-Blau for the National Council elections 1986 ( The Green Alternative - List Freda Meissner-Blau ). After the electoral success of the list Buchner moved in 1986 as a deputy in parliament. Since Buchner VGÖ but running against the Green Alternative for the Vienna state elections, he was expelled in December 1987 from the green Parliamentary Club. Buchner worked until 1990 as deputy Wilder ahead and tried with the United Greens of Austria, continue to gain a foothold. Despite some success in various municipal and state elections his party could not establish the long term. Agreement trials with the Green Alternative failed for the last time in 1993 before the national elections of 1994. After it was announced on 17 October that VGÖ and the Green Alternative would in 1994 take together, Jörg Haider stated that Buchner and VGÖ with had spoken to him about a collaboration. Although Buchner denied ever having negotiated with the FPÖ, the Federal Executive of the Green Alternative collaboration announced on in the sequence. Buchner's dream of a renewed period in the National Council had burst thereby. As a result, the former football coach Adi Pinter was elected in June 1994 as the new VGÖ boss but it suffered in the elections with 0.12 % a bitter defeat.

Buchner focused in the following on the work in his home town Steyregg. His Steyregger citizens' initiative for environmental protection (SBU ) under its 1997 elections with 29.9 % of the vote, an increase of 2.1% and for the first time for second place. In the Mayor's direct election, Buchner was able to prevail with more than 50 % in the first round and became the first green mayor in Austria. In 2003, Buchner succeeded in the municipal elections, the re-election as mayor with more than 70% and in 2009 with 59.99 % of the valid votes. The SBU was 36.8 % in 2003 for the first time to vote the strongest party in Steyregg. In the municipal elections of 2009, the SBU was confirmed with 34.09 % votes as the strongest party.