Max Lercher | |
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Member of the National Council | |
In office 23 October 2019 –23 October 2024 | |
Constituency | Upper Styria |
Member of the Landtag Styria | |
In office 21 October 2010 –12 September 2018 | |
Succeeded by | Wolfgang Moitzi |
Constituency | Upper Styria |
Personal details | |
Born | Judenburg,Austria | 24 September 1986
Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Website | max-lercher |
Maximilian Lercher (born 24 September 1986) is an Austrian politician and former member of the National Council. [1] A member of the Social Democratic Party,he represented Upper Styria from October 2019 to October 2024. He was a member of the Landtag Styria from October 2010 to September 2018.
Lercher was born on 24 September 1986 in Judenburg. [1] [2] He is the son of a bus driver and a post office manager. [3] He has a Bachelor's of Arts degree in political science from the University of Vienna. [1] [3] He was the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ)'s State Managing Director in Styria from 2014 to 2018 and the SPÖ's Federal Managing Director from 2018 to 2019. [1] [4] He was managing director of Leykam Medien AG,a company controlled by the SPÖin Styria,from 2019 to 2023. [1] [5] In October 2019 the right wing Österreich newspaper claimed that Lercher had been given a three-year consulting contract with SPÖat €20,000 per month but in fact the contract was between SPÖand Leykam and Lercher's salary for being MD of Leykam was only €6,000 per month. [6] [7] In September 2023 he was appointed head of the Dr. Karl Renner Institute's state office in Burgenland. [8] [9]
Lercher was chairman of the Socialist Youth Austria (SJ)'s Styrian branch from 2008 to 2013. [1] He has held various positions on the Upper Styria West and Styrian branches of the SPÖas well as its federal executive. [1] He was elected to the Landtag Styria at the 2010 state election. [1] [3] He resigned from the Landtag in September 2018 and was replaced by Wolfgang Moitzi. [10] [11] [12] He was elected to the National Council at the 2019 legislative election. [1] In September 2023 Lercher announced that he would not be seeking re-election. [13]
Election | Electoral district | Party | Votes | % | Result | |
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2010 state election [14] | Upper Styria | Social Democratic Party | 761 | 0.80% | Elected | |
2015 state election [15] | Upper Styria | Social Democratic Party | 484 | 0.70% | Elected | |
2019 legislative [16] | Upper Styria | Social Democratic Party | 7,354 | 13.92% | Elected | |
2019 legislative [17] | Styria | Social Democratic Party | 1,966 | 1.49% | Not elected | |
2019 legislative [18] | Federal List | Social Democratic Party | 2,921 | 0.29% | Not elected |
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