Siegfried Nagl

Siegfried Nagl ( born April 18, 1963 in Graz) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP) since 2003 and Mayor of the City of Graz.

Life and career

Siegfried Nagl was born as the third of four children of a family in Graz. He attended until 1982, the Federal Trade Academy Graz I, today's Business Academy. While studying economics and social sciences at the Graz Karl Franzens University, he became a member of the Catholic Student Association K.Ö.HV Carolina Graz in the ACA. In 1988 he graduated from with a master's degree. Nagl was managing partner of the family firm, the company Klammerth in Graz Herrngasse. He was chairman of the Graz city center initiative, an advocacy of retailing downtown in 1996.

Nagl is married and has four children.

Policy

First political activities continued Nagl 1996 as vice chairman of the Graz Economic Association, and in 1997 as a national vice-president of the Styrian Economic Association.

In the period from 1998 to 2003 he was councilor of the City of Graz and is responsible for the areas of finance, real estate, culture and agriculture. Since January 2000 he has been chairman of the Austrian People's Party City Party Graz since 2002 and chairman of the local political union of Austria.

2003 Nagl won the Graz municipal elections and was elected by a coalition of ÖVP and SPÖ mayor. In the local elections of 2008, the ÖVP posted under Nagl slight gains and entered in the sequence in coalition talks with SPÖ and the Greens one. On 3 March 2008, agreed his party, for the first time in the history of the city, with the Greens on a labor Conventions by 2013.

At the council elections on 25 November 2012, the ÖVP had with him as a top candidate with 33.74 % of the vote and a loss of 4.63 % accept defeat, but could hold the first rank, and provides the right to the mayor's office.