Peter Westenthaler

Peter West Thaler ( born November 6, 1967 in Vienna; native Peter Hojač or Hojac ) is an Austrian politician and long-time peak representative of the Freedom Party, and later the AAF. West Thaler 1984 was his family name at an expected his parents' divorce (which then failed to materialize ) of Hojac on the mother's maiden name change.

Professional and political career

Peter West Thaler attended for four years, the lower level of Gymnasium of Neulandschule on Laa Berg from 1979 to 1983, after which the HTL Spengergasse, Department of IT and Business Organization 1983 until 1988. According to the matriculation examination, he studied some time journalism and political science at the University of Vienna, finished his studies, however, without a degree. He learned by different activities in the IT sector in 1988 know Jörg Haider and in the same year a freelancer in the FPÖ parliamentary group ( in this case he was still working at the beginning of the parliamentary group with IT ). From 1989 to 1991 he was a full-time press officer at the Freedom Party parliamentary group with club chairman Norbert Gugerbauer. Then west Thaler, the so-called Haider " Buberlpartie " is attributed, was already personal secretary to federal party leader Jörg Haider until 1993. 1995 he did his military service. He was appointed head of the newly installed communication offices in 1996 and from 1996 to 1999, he was also Secretary General of the Freedom Party. The highlight of his career in the party reached the west Thaler as deputy FPÖ Federal Party Chairwoman Susanne Riess -Passer von 2000 to 2002.

West Thaler was from 1991 to 1999 served as a member of the Vienna City Council. After the national election in 1999, he joined the National Council. There in 2000 he was club chairman of the Freedom Party Group after the government was formed in the spring. In this role, he was primarily for his Doppelconférencen with ÖVP Party chairman Andreas Khol (which he had once referred to later in 1999 as Undemokratie in person than his father's friend ) in which government projects have been announced, present in the media. Media Political west Thaler worked not only as a member of the ORF Trustees from 1999, generated excitement and his attempts at intervention on the political coverage of the ORF. The appointment of Alexander Wrabetz the new Director General in August 2006 have increased the influence of the AAF in the ORF according to some Austrian print media. The voices of the AAF were in the ORF Foundation decisive for the victory of Wrabetz over its competitors, which the People's Party in the person of Liese Prokop prompting to attest to the west Thaler "lack of handshake quality ".

After Knittelfelder FPÖ Assembly 2002, West Thaler together with Susanne Riess -Passer and Finance Minister Karl- Heinz Grasser all party functions which displaced due to the termination of ÖVP-/FPÖ-Koalition elections at the federal level were the result.

In 2001, Peter West Thaler was honored for his calls for a full collection of fingerprints with the negative price Big Brother Award.

After his first political career, he was hired by Frank Stronach, Magna -Steyr in its group and was in Stronach's job ( in its capacity as Premier League boss ) been the Director of the Austrian Bundesliga.

In October 2005, West Thaler occurred shortly before the Vienna state elections again in a party political action by calling on means of an open letter to select the AAF. As a result, he was several times acted as a possible chairman of the AAF. After officially announced on 20 May 2006 to stand for this position is available, he was presented on 22 May 2006 as the leading candidate of the party for the 2006 national elections by the AAF. The official selection in these functions was held at the Federal Convention in Salzburg on 23 June 2006. Party colleague Eduard Mainoni commented west Thaler's function in the party by saying that he was one, " which covers the proles ". In the course of the election campaign west Thaler made ​​a bid to deport 300,000 foreigners for excitement. His proposal was referred to by any other party (other than the Freedom Party ) as xenophobic and highly criticized. On 30 August 2008 he was again replaced by Jörg Haider as an alliance umpire.

On June 18, 2009 Peter West Thaler was sentenced to six months conditional imprisonment judicata for false testimony. Since 18 June 2012, this probation is repaid and west Thaler applies again as respectable citizens.

In May 2010, he successfully completed a half -year course for real estate agents and collected after practice with fellow brokers.

" Half Moon Affair "

During the election campaign for the 2006 national elections had a letter which AAF - chief Peter West Thaler presented in TV debate with SPÖ chief Alfred Gusenbauer, result in legal action. The Austrian Alpine Club ( OeAV) and the Viennese SPÖ council Omar Al -Rawi then sued the AAF.

West Thaler had a - as it turned out later, fictitious - response letter from the Austrian Alpine Club at Al -Rawi cited in which it was to draw crescents instead summit crosses on the Austrian mountaintops. Later, a group of artists known to the letter that had been sent in addition to the West Thaler also FPÖ chairman Heinz-Christian Strache and Dichand ( Kronen Zeitung ).

Conviction for false statement

Christoph Pöchinger, the press spokesman for the beaten just before the elections from the AAF Justice Minister Karin Gastinger, accuses the bodyguard west Thaler, Siegfried Kobal, claims to have beaten him on election night in the presence of Western Thaler and at his request. West Thaler denies this account. On 30 October 2006, the display was covered by the prosecutor, as the West Thaler could not be proved that he had intended with his statements a coercion. The prosecution described this as "alcohol - and milieu -related expressions of discontent ".

After West Thaler's former bodyguard was sentenced on 20 March 2007 in the matter of assault and coercion to four months' conditional imprisonment and payment of pain and suffering, a procedure was initiated because of false testimony against West Thaler, because his statements in the trial of bodyguards by the prosecutor as a deliberate false statement counted. To the west Thaler denied having spoken that night with police officers, although two officials could remember a conversation with him. The National Council lifted the parliamentary immunity west Thaler, and the process began on 11 June 2008. West Peter Thaler pleaded "not guilty". On 29 July 2008, he was not convicted of perjury related to nine months in prison. The sentence was reduced to six months conditional imprisonment after an appeal on 18 June 2009 and is legally binding. West Thaler is now planning to appeal against the judgment to the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights. On June 18, 2012 both probation and repayment period ended on that judgment. Accordingly west Thaler is now considered respectable citizens.

Display for assault

Summer 2008 West Thaler was displayed by the police for assaulting an official. This allegation and the following " preliminary investigation on suspicion of resisting state violence " were hired by the prosecution, however.

Trivia

In Space novel " Everything will never work " (2005), the Austrian author Martin Amanshauser playing in 2020, one of the central characters is an ex- politician named West Thaler, in the book of the secretary of a tycoon named Stronach.

Awards (excerpt)

• Grand Gold Medal with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (2005)