Mirko Messner
Mirko Messner | |
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| Štefan Miroslav Messner | |
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| Born | December 16, 1948 |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Alma mater | Slavic studies, University of Vienna |
Mirko Messner | |
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| Chairman of the Communist Party of Austria (KPO) | |
| Assumed office 27 February 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Walter Baier |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) |
Dr. Mirko Messner (* December 16th 1948 in Slovenj Gradec, Socialist Republic of Slovenia), real name Štefan Miroslav Messner[1], is an Austrian, Carinthian Slovene Slavicist and communist politician, leading the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) since February 2006.[2][3]
Life
After graduating from high school, he studied Slavic studies and German studies at the University of Vienna, where he also did his doctorate in 1977.[1]
As a teenager, he was politically active in the Verband Sozialistischer Mittelschüler (Association of Socialist Middle Schoolers) in Carinthia. After its dissolution in 1973[4], Messner joined the KPÖ-led Communist Student Union within the Austrian Students' Association. During his studies and became involved in the Slovene Students' Association (Koroška dijaška zveza). During this time he created the Slovenian student newspaper Kladivo which was published until 1989.[5] When he could not assert his view of nationality policy on the question of Slovenian minority in the party, Messner resigned from all offices (among other things, he was a member of the Central Committee), and quit his job as an employee of the party in 1987.[6]
After the KPÖ held the "Grazer Erneuerungsparteitag" (Party Congress for Renewal in Graz) in 2005, he was initially active in the reconstitution of the KPÖ in Klagenfurt and was finally elected to the party's federal executive board and its minority spokesman in February 2006. In March of the same year, Messner was also elected Federal Spokesperson for the Party together with Melina Klaus. Messner has been the leading candidate for his party in all four Austrian National Council elections since 2006.[7]
From 2009 to 2016 he was also editor of the party-newspaper Volksstimme, which appears as a monthly magazine. Messner has been the sole federal spokesman for the KPÖ since 2012.[6]
References
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- ^ Nationalratswahlen: Alle Spitzenkandidaten im Portrait.
- ^ "Verband Sozialistischer Mittelschüler | AustriaWiki im Austria-Forum". austria-forum.org. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ search.obvsg.at https://search.obvsg.at/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=OBV_alma71332037260003331&context=L&vid=OBV&lang=de_DE. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ a b Nationalratswahlen: Alle Spitzenkandidaten im Portrait.
- ^ "Nationalratswahlen: Alle Spitzenkandidaten im Portrait". nachrichten.at (in German). Retrieved 2020-07-06.