Michael Spindelegger

Michael Spindelegger ( born December 21, 1959 in Vienna) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP). Since December 2013 he is Minister of Finance since April 2011 and Vice-Chancellor of Austria. In May 2011 he was elected to the federal party leader of his party.

Life

Spindelegger attended elementary school in Hinterbrühl, where he grew up and now lives. He attended high school in Mödling, where he was sports manager Ronnie Leitgeb in the same class. 1977 to 1978 he did his service as a one-year volunteer of the Austrian army. As part of a militia officer career Spindelegger holds the rank of lieutenant. From 1978, he studied law at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1983 with a doctorate from. In addition, he worked as an assistant at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Vienna. Subsequently, he was a legal intern at various courts.

After the graduation Spindelegger began a professional career in the service of the State of Lower Austria and in the district headquarters Gmünd and bathing. He is a member of K.A.V. Norica in the ACA, also honor the Philistines K.Ö.aV Floriana St. Pölten and the Ö.K.a.V. Theresiana in the ACA and the K.Ö.St.V. Tuistonia Mödling in MKV. Spindelegger is a member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem since 2009.

Spindelegger is married to an employee of the Court and has two sons.

Policy

In 1987, he rose after the example of his father, Erich Spindelegger, in politics. First, he headed the secretariat of his mentor Robert Lichal in the Federal Ministry of Defence, with whom he was involved in the Oerlikon scandal and was suspected to have been involved in an illegal party financing for the ÖVP. The corresponding procedure was terminated after three years of investigations.

From 1990, he worked closely with the former ÖVP Foreign Minister Alois Mock. Both leaders called Spindelegger today as role models. In 1990 Spindelegger in the private sector and completed a trainee program of the Industrialists' Association. He worked in the legal department of Alcatel, Siemens in sales, in the composite society in Germany at the Confederation of German Employers' Associations and the Board Secretariat of the Giro Credit Bank AG Sparkassen.

From 1991 was Spindelegger federal deputy chairman of ÖAAB, 2009-2011 its Federal umpire. A short time he was in 1992 in the Federal Council, from 1993 Member of Parliament. In 1995 and 1996 he was a Member of the European Parliament; In 1996 Spindelegger in the Austrian National Council, where he worked until December 2008. He became the foreign policy spokesman for the People's Party and faction leaders in the foreign policy committee. He was also from 2000 to 2006 Club Vice Chairman of the People's Party in the National Council.

From 2006 was Spindelegger second National President. On 28 October 2008, he was elected with 142 of 170 votes in force again for the second National President. Michael Spindelegger was, however, a little later nominated for the coalition negotiations with the Social Democratic Party of Josef Pröll, Minister of Foreign Affairs, known after the incumbent Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik gave shortly before the end of the coalition pact not to stand for the post are available. Spindelegger went to the minister on December 2, 2008. His successor as the second National President was on 3 December 2008 Fritz Neugebauer.

After Josef Pröll resigned in April 2011 as the ÖVP chairman and Vice Chancellor, Spindelegger was designated on 14 April 2011 as his successor in both positions the Party Executive. On April 21, he was sworn in as Vice-Chancellor, officially appointed on 20 May for the federal party leader. In the following spindle Egger drew a line under various ÖVP scandals. ÖVP officials and mandatories must now commit themselves to comply with the Austrian People's Party Code of Conduct, ensuring that it is compliance with the ÖVP Ethics.

Spindelegger nominated the then 24 -year-old JVP chairman Sebastian Kurz as an integration of state.

Michael Spindelegger content relies heavily on the theme of " economy and jobs ", where he was confronted with the criticism that he had little idea as to ÖAAB Member of economy. Therefore, the ÖVP leader of a he initiated economic platform called left "Companies Austria 2025" develop economic policy proposals.

Honors

  • Grand Silver Medal with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (2004)
  • Grand Gold Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria by Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer ( 2012)
  • Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary ( 2012)
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