Martin Bartenstein

Martin Bartenstein ( born June 3, 1953 in Graz) is an Austrian entrepreneur and politician (ÖVP ). He was a member from 1994 as Secretary of State from 1995, and as Federal Minister several federal governments. Initially, Minister for Environment, Youth and Family then, he served as Federal Minister of Economics and Labour from February 2000 to December 2008. Bartenstein was 1991-1994 and 2008-2013 Member of Parliament.

In the legislative period to 2013 he was a member of the following committees: Committee of Inquiry: eavesdropping and interference measures in the Parliament, Main Committee, Finance Committee, Foreign Policy Committee, Transport Committee.

Life

Martin Bartenstein studied for his schooling at the Academic Gymnasium in Graz 1971-1978 Chemistry at the Karl- Franzens- University of Graz. In 1978, he became the Dr. phil. doctorate. In 1974 he spent a term at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (USA). In 1978 he joined the family business Lannacher a cure GmbH, whose sole business management he took over in 1980. He held this position until 1995. In 1986 he founded together with his fellow student Wolfgang Leitner, the pharmaceutical company Genericon. Critics see this through personal close relationship with the pharmaceutical and generics industry stakeholders incompatibilities justified by his political offices.

From 1988 to 1992 Martin Bartenstein was National Chairman of the Young Industry in Austria. Since 1992, Bartenstein state party Vice Chairman of the ÖVP Styria.

Bartenstein 1991 Member of the National and Industry spokesman for the Austrian People's Party from 1994 to 1995, he worked as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Public Economy and Transport. In 1995 he was Minister for the Environment. In this role, he took over at the Vienna Conference in 1995, the conference presidency to the Montreal Protocol. From 1996 he was the Federal Minister for the Environment, Youth and Family Affairs, with a focus of his work was the fight against so-called sects, new and pseudo-religious groups. In 1998, he was President of the Council of the EU representative at the climate change conference in Buenos Aires.

In 2000, he took over the Ministry of Economy, which has now been converted to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour. This merger of two previously separate departments to a ministry led to fierce criticism, as damage to the conflict of interests of employer and employee would be obscured in favor of the contractor.

After the parliamentary elections in Austria 2008 Bartenstein no longer belonged to the federal government Faymann I, but received a seat in the National Council. In the national election in 2013 Bartenstein renounced his candidacy.

Bartenstein is married with Ilse Bartenstein since 1983, has five children and is a member of the Evangelical Church

Other public offices

Bartenstein is a permanent member of the OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development. He worked in various positions in the Economic Chamber of Styria and the Federal Economic Chamber. In 1990 he was curator of the ORF. Since 2002 he has been President of the Austrian Basketball Association ( Musikverein ). Since 1992 he has been chairman of the Styrian Children's Cancer Aid, since 1993 President of the Children's Cancer Aid.

Awards

Grand Gold Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria (1998)
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2002)
Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique (2005)
Carinthian provincial Order in Gold ( 2006)
Grand Cross of the Norwegian Order of Merit (2007)
Japanese Order of the Rising Sun
Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation
Grand Decoration of Honour in the province of Styria with the Stars (2013 )

Trivia

For negative headlines and public scorn Bartenstein made in the spring of 2003 with the so-called shoe affair when he asked in a discount shoe store and this request was to approach to management, where it was granted him.
Bartenstein is owner of the castle Lannach, which has been home to the SS - Institute of Plant Genetics during the Nazi dictatorship and a branch of the Mauthausen concentration camp was. Bartenstein said he did not know about this part of the history of the castle Lannach. A study commissioned by him study under the direction of the historian Stefan Karner, Bartenstein largely relieved, contrary to his announcement in May 2007, however, no plaque at the castle was attached.
Bartenstein is a member of the German national " Academic Gymnastics Club Graz ", a non-beating national- liberal fraternity, to the " German cultural nation " and the " Jahn'schen gymnastics" is committed.
Bartenstein is a regular participant in the Bilderberg Conference.
Martin Bartenstein has an estimated personal fortune of 110 million euros and describes himself thus as a " typical medium-sized ".
Martin Bartenstein and Ilse are part of the personal friends of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The friendship founded in the time of the two politicians as environment ministers of their countries.

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