German pronunciation: [ˈhansˈpeːtɐˈdɔskotsiːl] ; born 21 June 1970) is an Austrianpolitician of the Social Democratic Party, who's serving as the governor of Burgenland since February 2019. He previously served as minister of defence from 2016–2017. In the 2020 Burgenland state election, he led his party to win a majority of the seats in Burgenland's parliament. Due to an error in the count of his party’s national congress in June 2023, he was assumed to be the SPÖ’s party leader from 3 to 5 June 2023, when the error was discovered and his opponent Andreas Babler was declared party leader.
Contents
Early life, education and career
Doskozil was raised in Kroisegg, a district in the municipality of Grafenschachen in southern Burgenland, where he completed his compulsory Volksschule education. He later attended the Hauptschule in Pinkafeld and then the Bundesgymnasium Oberschützen in the Oberwart District.
In the first-half of 1989, Doskozil did his compulsory military service at the Landwehrstammregiment 13 (now Jägerbattalion 19) of the Austrian Army and soon afterwards began his policing career as a Sicherheitswachebeamter at the Bundespolizeidirektion Wien (BPD Wien). He started studying law part-time at the University of Vienna in 1994, graduating with a Mag. iur. in 2000. Between 2003 and 2008 he regularly moved between the Sicherheitsdirektion Burgenland, BPD Wien and the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Between 2008 and 2012, he worked in the office of the then-governor of Burgenland Hans Niessl before returning to policing as the head of the newly formed Landespolizeidirektion Burgenland in 2012. [1]
Doskozil, as head of the Landespolizeidirektion Burgenland, was praised for his handling of the Burgenland corpses discovery in 2015. [2] [3]
Political career
In the mid-2000s, Doskozil served as a councillor of the Grafenschachen municipality for the local chapter of the SPÖ. [4] On migrant policy, Doskozil has at times adopted a harder line than his predecessor Gerald Klug. In 2016, he successfully introduced new asylum measures, including a process under which migrants could be turned away at the border within an hour, which could be activated if lawmakers decree public order is threatened. [5]
As minister of defence, Doskozil increased the budget of the Austrian Armed Forces, which had halved in terms of GDP between 1985 and 2015, to a projected 1.3 billion Euros by 2020. [6] After said budget increase, the number of interested parties for the job of a professional soldier doubled in 2017. [7] Also during his stint as Defence Minister, the state of Austria sued Airbus and the Eurofighter consortium in 2017, alleging wilful deception and fraud linked to a near 2 billion euro ($2.1 billion) order for 18 Eurofighter Typhoon jets in 2003. [8]
In a November 2022 poll, the SPÖ received a plurality of the votes when respondents were asked which party they would vote for under the condition that Doskozil would run as the SPÖ's candidate for chancellor of Austria. [9] In early 2023, he challenged the incumbent chairperson of the Social Democratic Party, Pamela Rendi-Wagner for the chairpersonship. The party called for a vote among its members, to be held before the summer in the special 2023 Social Democratic Party of Austria leadership election. [10]
The results of the membership election were announced on 22 May 2023 and Doskozil came in first place with 33.7% of the votes. [11] Andreas Babler and some members of the party requested a run-off among the party members be held between Doskozil and Babler who came in second place at 31.5%, but the SPÖ leadership decided in a vote of 25-22 against a runoff and that they would instead let Babler run at the extraordinary party congress on 3 June 2023 where 603 delegates voted on behalf of the party membership. [12] According to the first count, Babler lost with 279 votes (46.81%) against Hans Peter Doskozil who received 316 (53.02%) of the delegates votes; [13] however, after a recount showed that the results were incorrectly tabulated, with Babler having won the votes attributed to Doskozil, Babler was proclaimed the winner and declared the new leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria. [14] [15]
Personal life
Doskozil has two children from a previous marriage. His brother serves as a police officer in Vienna. [16] Doskozil met the German-born events manager and food blogger Julia Jurtschak at an event in Cologne in 2017, began dating each other in 2019 and married in August 2022. [17]
In 2018, he had to receive surgery on his vocal cords due to persistent hoarseness. He underwent surgery again at Vienna General Hospital in autumn 2019 [18] and at the Universitätsklinikum Leipzig in January 2021. [19]
Related Research Articles
Politics in Austria reflects the dynamics of competition among multiple political parties, which led to the formation of a Conservative-Green coalition government for the first time in January 2020, following the snap elections of 29 September 2019, and the election of a former Green Party leader to the presidency in 2016.
Wolfgang Schüssel is an Austrian politician. He was Chancellor of Austria for two consecutive terms from February 2000 to January 2007. While being recognised as a rare example of an active reformer in contemporary Austrian politics, his governments were also highly controversial from the beginning, starting with the fact that he formed a coalition government with Jörg Haider's Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) on both occasions. In 2011, he retired from being an active member of parliament due to a multitude of charges of corruption against members of his governments.
Legislative elections were held in Austria on 1 October 2006 to elect the 23rd National Council, the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament.
The Socialist Youth Austria is the largest socialist youth organisation in Austria. Founded in 1894 as a club for apprentice protection, it was initially called Association of Young Workers. Although not part of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), there is a close relationship between the two organisations. The SJÖ is actively integrated within the committees of the SPÖ.
Werner Faymann is an Austrian former politician who was Chancellor of Austria and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) from 2008 to 2016. On 9 May 2016, he resigned from both positions amid widening criticism within his party.
The 2010 Burgenland state election was held on 30 May 2010 to elect the members of the 20th Landtag of Burgenland.
Norbert Darabos is an Austrian politician. Currently, he serves as the president of the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR). From 2007 to 2013, he served as Minister of National Defence under the chancellors Gusenbauer and Faymann. From 2015 to 2016, he was secretary general of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). He is married and has two children.
The Social Democratic Party of Austria is a social democratic political party in Austria. Founded in 1889 as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria and later known as the Socialist Party of Austria from 1945 until 1991, the party is the oldest extant political party in Austria. Along with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), it is one of the country's two traditional major parties. It is positioned on the centre-left on the political spectrum.
Christian Kern is an Austrian businessman and former politician who served as Chancellor of Austria from 17 May 2016 to 18 December 2017 and chairman of the Social Democratic Party from 25 June 2016 to 25 September 2018.
Legislative elections were held in Austria on 29 September 2019 to elect the 27th National Council, the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament. The snap election was called in the wake of the Ibiza affair in May, which caused the resignation of Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache and the collapse of the governing coalition of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). The government subsequently lost a motion of no confidence in parliament, before ÖVP Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was replaced by non-partisan Brigitte Bierlein on an interim basis.
The 2015 Burgenland state election was held on 31 May 2015 to elect the members of the 21st Landtag of Burgenland.
This is a list of chairpersons of the Social Democratic Party of Austria in chronological order.
Pamela Rendi-Wagner is an Austrian physician and politician who is the current director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and who previously served as chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) from 2018 to 2023. She was the first woman to lead the SPÖ.
The 2020 Burgenland state election was held on 26 January 2020 to elect the members of the 22nd Landtag of Burgenland. The snap election was called in the wake of the Ibiza affair in May 2019, which caused the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) to terminate its coalition with the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).
Legislative elections will be held in Austria on 29 September 2024 to elect the 28th National Council, the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament.
Events in the year 2023 in Austria.
The 2023 Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) leadership election was initially held between 24 April and 10 May 2023 among party members as an advisory survey, to elect a new chairperson. The non-binding vote was conducted by mail and online. Results were released on 22 May 2023 with Hans Peter Doskozil winning narrowly, Andreas Babler coming in second and Pamela Rendi-Wagner in third place.
Andreas "Andi" Babler is an Austrian politician serving as Chair of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), and mayor of the city and municipality of Traiskirchen. He is also a member of the Federal Council of Austria and has been appointed as chairperson of the reform commission of the Social Democratic Party of Lower Austria. In 2023, Die Presse characterised Babler as a far-left politician, while other have described him as being a left-wing populist.
Burgenland North, also known as Electoral District 1A, is one of the 39 multi-member regional electoral districts of the National Council, the lower house of the Austrian Parliament, the national legislature of Austria. The electoral district was created in 1992 when electoral regulations were amended to add regional electoral districts to the existing state-wide electoral districts and came into being at the following legislative election in 1994. It consists of the cities of Eisenstadt and Rust and the districts of Eisenstadt-Umgebung, Mattersburg and Neusiedl am See in the state of Burgenland. The electoral district currently elects four of the 183 members of the National Council using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 legislative election the constituency had 123,715 registered electors.
Burgenland South, also known as Electoral District 1B, is one of the 39 multi-member regional electoral districts of the National Council, the lower house of the Austrian Parliament, the national legislature of Austria. The electoral district was created in 1992 when electoral regulations were amended to add regional electoral districts to the existing state-wide electoral districts and came into being at the following legislative election in 1994. It consists of the districts of Güssing, Jennersdorf, Oberpullendorf and Oberwart in the state of Burgenland. The electoral district currently elects three of the 183 members of the National Council using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 legislative election the constituency had 109,467 registered electors.
References
- ↑ "Bundesheer - der Minister - Lebenslauf". Archived from the original on 27 January 2016.
- ↑ "Die ruhige Stimme in den unruhigen Tagen". Archived from the original on 23 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ↑ "Hans Peter Doskozil: Sein schwerster Fall". Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ↑ "Porträt: Hans Peter Doskozil, Faymanns neue Personalreserve". 8 September 2015. Archived from the original on 8 March 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ↑ Kirsti Knolle (April 27, 2016), Austrian parliament passes package on tougher asylum rules Archived 11 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine Reuters .
- ↑ "Budget für ausgedünntes Bundesheer wird aufgefettet". Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ↑ "Probleme durch Ansturm auf das Heer". Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ↑ Kirsti Knolle and Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich (February 16, 2017), Austria sues Airbus over alleged Eurofighter fraud Archived 12 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine Reuters .
- ↑ "Sunday poll National Council". @Wahlen_AT (in German). Twitter. 20 November 2022. Archived from the original on 20 January 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ↑ "Austria's social democrats decide to hold leadership race". 15 March 2023. Archived from the original on 24 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ↑ "Hans Peter Doskozil gewinnt SPÖ-Mitgliederabstimmung". Die Presse (in German). 22 May 2023. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ↑ "SPÖ-Parteitag entscheidet über Vorsitz, rote Basis wird nicht erneut befragt". Der Standard (in German). 23 May 2023. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
- ↑ "Doskozil ist neuer SPÖ-Chef". ORF . 3 June 2023. Archived from the original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ↑ "Fehler bei Auszählung: Babler doch neuer SPÖ-Parteichef". kurier.at (in German). 5 June 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ↑ "Babler ist nach Auszählungs-Panne statt Doskozil Chef der SPÖ". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ↑ "Thema vom 28.09.2015 um 21.10 Uhr / ORF TVthek". Archived from the original on 8 October 2015.
- ↑ "Landeshauptmann Doskozil hat geheiratet". 12 August 2022. Archived from the original on 23 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ↑ "Doskozil muss sich im AKH zweiter Stimmband-Operation unterziehen". 26 September 2019. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ↑ "Nach OP: Doskozil ab Montag zurück im Land". 16 January 2021. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
External links
- Official website
(in German)
Hans Peter Doskozil | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Governor of Burgenland | |
| Assumed office 28 February 2019 |
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |