Who is there from Innsbruck?: The glorious eight of the new government
Who is in the new state government? Fixed starters are currently only Toni Mattle and Georg Dornauer. The other six state councilors will not be presented until the end of next week. Then there is the distribution of tasks within the state government. Who could be there from Innsbruck?
INNSBRUCK. The negotiations are going well, say the chief negotiators Toni Mattle for the ÖVP and Georg Dornauer for the SPÖ. There are still factual issues on the agenda, then it is a matter of filling the new eight-person state government. Innsbruck can hope for representation in the government. Gerber, Wolhlgemuth and Mayer are among the top stocks on the political stock exchange.
How Innsbruck voted, BezirksBlätter Innsbruck Article
Mario Gerber
The tourist expert, who lives in Igls, has been a member of the Tyrolean state parliament since 2018. Gerber is also part of the ÖVP’s current negotiating team when it comes to forming a government. Mario Gerber, born in 1981, attended the commercial academy in Innsbruck in 1995/96 after elementary school in Igls and secondary school in Wilten. He then completed an apprenticeship as a hotel and hospitality assistant. He has been working as a tourism expert and hotelier since 1999, initially as an employee in the family-owned Gerber Hotels in Kühtai, later as their managing director and shareholder. In the last term of office in the state parliament, he worked in the committee for housing and transport, the financial control committee and the committee for economy, tourism, energy and technology. He was also the spokesman for tourism and economy. In September 2018 he became deputy chairman of the hotel industry association in the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ). In April 2019 he was elected chairman of the Innsbruck-City Business Association. In June 2020, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Federal Department of Tourism and Leisure Industry of the Austrian Economic Chamber for the term of office until 2025. As chairman of the Innsbruck Tourism Association (TVB), he succeeded Karl Gostner in November 2021. In the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce, Gerber is the chairman of the tourism and leisure industry division. In terms of qualification as a state economic councilor, his action is high, ÖVP-internal could be the question of the number of government members of the economic association.
Philip Wohlgemuth
The trade unionist has also been in the Tyrolean state parliament since 2018. After elementary school in Pradl, Philip Wohlgemuth (born in 1987) attended the technical secondary school on Gabelsbergerstraße in Innsbruck and the polytechnic school in Innsbruck. From 2002 to 2005 he attended the Hotel Management School Villa Blanka Innsbruck. He then worked as a receptionist in 2006/07. Wohlgemuth was state youth chairman of the Hotel, Hospitality, Personal Service (HGPD) trade union, later of the vida trade union. From 2007 to 2011 he was state youth secretary of the Austrian Trade Union Confederation (ÖGB) in Tyrol, then state secretary. Since 2013 he has been the country manager of the vida trade union. In June 2017, Philip Wohlgemuth was elected to succeed Otto Leist as chairman of the ÖGB Tirol. He was confirmed in this role in May 2022. He has been a member of the district party executive of the SPÖ Innsbruck-Stadt since 2006, where he has been deputy district party chairman since 2015. In the last parliamentary term, he was a member of the Committee for Housing and Transport and the Committee for Economics, Tourism, Energy and Technology. Philip Wohlgemuth is a member of the SPÖ steering group at the government negotiations. In the department of labor and social affairs, Wohlgemuth has a strong card.
The dossier on the state election and the government negotiations of the district newspapers
Ellie Mayer
Elisabeth Mayer (born in 1983) worked from 2016 to 2018 as managing director of the SPÖ community council club in Innsbruck. Since the municipal council and mayoral elections in 2018, she has been the executive city councilor responsible for the departments of education, childcare, school, women, integration, sports and the agenda of the Disabled Advisory Board of the City of Innsbruck. In January 2021, after Uschi Schwarzl was voted out, Elli Mayr stood for election as Vice Mayor of Innsbruck. In the secret ballot, she was defeated by the opposition candidate Markus Lassenberger of the FPÖ by 16 to 18 votes. Mayr spent her early years in Innsbruck and later in Terfens. In 2001 she refused her Matura at the Episcopal Gymnasium Paulinum. She then studied German philology with a focus on literature at the University of Innsbruck and graduated with distinction. Mayr carries out her function as executive city councilor calmly and prudently but consistently. A move to a government office in the country house would mean leaving the city senate, and Mayr could remain in the city of Innsbruck as a municipal councillor. The situation within the city party caused some discussions about this activated change. The new city senate member must be proposed by the municipal council club of the SPÖ. Benjamin Plach is currently a non-official substitute member of the city senate. The stalemate in the Innsbruck SPÖ between Heisz and Buchacher vs. Mayr and Plach could result in no agreement being reached on a proposal. Then the municipal council would probably fall back on the top position on the list in the 2018 municipal council elections of the SPÖ, in this case on GR Irene Heisz.
Christopher apple
Christoph Appler, club chairman of the local council club of the ÖVP and substitute member of the city senate without office, will be on 25.10. sworn in as a member of the state parliament in the country house. Appler will then attend the council meeting. In recent months, Appler, in cooperation with Lukas Krackl from the “For Innsbruck” list, has often created the necessary legal safeguards, but also for corresponding majorities in municipal council decisions. Christoph Appler is the city party chairman of the Innsbruck ÖVP and a member of the farmers’ association. The Appler family is one of the pioneers in Tyrolean organic farming. In 1972, the farm in Arzl was the first organic farm in Tyrol to be certified. Today, Christoph Appler runs the family business. Appler is also active in numerous clubs.
Zeliha Arslan
Zeliha Arslan, born and raised in Düsseldorf, has been a municipal councilor for the Greens in Innsbruck since 2018. She is a member of the committees for education, society and diversity, social affairs and housing allocation, as well as the Igls district committee. After studying political science, Arslan is active in the areas of racism, migration and flight. Zeliha Arslan will be born on October 25th. sworn in as a member of the state parliament in the country house. After the former provincial councilor Gabi Fischer (she will leave the government on October 25) and state parliament member Gebi Mair have been sworn in as substitute municipal councilors in Innsbruck, Arslan should also continue to be a member of the municipal council.
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