Haider, Jörg#
b. Bad Goisern (Upper Austria), Jan. 26, 1950, law graduate, politician (Austrian Freedom Party, FPOe). 1970-1974 federal chairman of the right-wing student association "Ring der Freiheitlichen Jugend", 1976-1983 provincial party secretary of the Austrian Freedom Party in Carinthia, from 1983 provincial party chairman, from 1983-1986 Landesrat, from 1989-1991 Landeshauptmann, degraded to 2nd deputy Landeshauptmann until 1992 following a statement by him about the "proper employment policies in Hitler's Third Reich", leader of the Freedom party group in parliament since1999, member of the Nationalrat 1979-1983, 1986-1989 and from 1992-1999; 1986-1989 and 1992-1999 party chairman of the Austrian Freedom Party. Federal party chairman of the Freiheitliche Partei Oesterreichs (Austrian Freedom Party) from 1986-2000. Under his leadership the Austrian Freedom Party grew steadily in popularity until the OeVP-FPOe coalition government was formed in 2000.
Works#
Die Freiheit, die ich meine, 1993; Befreite Zukunft jenseits von links und rechts, 1997.Literature#
B. Bailer-Galanda and W. Neugebauer, Haider und die Freiheitlichen in Oesterreich, 1997; C. Zoechling, Haider. Licht und Schatten einer Karriere, 1999; H.-H. Scharsach and K. Kuch, H. - Schatten ueber Europa, 2000.