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Erhard Busek
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Image:Busek erhard 2000.jpg |thumb|Erhard Busek 2000, Austrian Vice-Chancellor 1991-95
'''Erhard Busek''' (born
March 25 1941 in
Vienna,
Austria) is a
politician from the
Christianity christian-
conservative People's Party (
ÖVP). He is a
Roman Catholic Roman Catholic.
Busek was chief of the party and
Vice-Chancellor of Austria in the
coalition of the
Social Democratic Party of Austria with the People's Party between
1991-
1995 and was an important
reformer of the Austrian
University Universities.
Career Overview
He started his professional career as legal advisor to the association of parliamentarians of the Austrian People's Party.
He served in a number of administrative positions including:
* Secretary-General of the
Austrian Federation for Trade and Commerce
* Secretary-General of the Austrian People's Party,
* Deputy-Mayor of Vienna,
* Minister of Science and Research,
* Minister of Education, and, most recently,
* Vice Chancellor.
Current positions
He is currently:
* Editor of a monthly newspaper Wiener Journal,
* Visiting Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Studies at Duke University,
* Chairman of the Institute for the Danube and Central Europe,
* Co-Chair of the Commission on Radio and Television Policy: Central and Eastern Europe,
* Member of the Committee on Education in the European Union, and
* Co-ordinator of the Southeast European Co-operative Initiative (SECI), a project created in 1996 to enhance stability in Southeastern Europe through the development of economic and environmental co-operation.
* since 01.01.2002, he is Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe
* in 2004, he also became Rector of the Technical College in Salzburg, Austria.
Biography
Erhard Busek studied
law at University.
Between
1964-
1972 he was a
parliament secretary (
German Language German: ''Klubsekretär'') of the ÖVP, and up to
1976 a General Secretary of its
Economics department (Wirtschaftsbund).
He became chair of the Viennese ÖVP in 1976 because of his "green image", and vice-
mayor of
Vienna from
1978 to
1987.
In
1991, he succeeded
Josef Riegler as the Vice-Chancellor of Austria and as the
Federation federal chair of the ÖVP. He led his party into the
Austria legislative election, 1994 1994 elections.
After retiring in
1995, Busek has been the director of the "Institute of
Danube countries" (10 states) and of the
Southeast European Cooperative.
He founded the
Pentagonale cultural and scientific cooperative together with
Hungary,
Czechoslovakia,
Yugoslavia and
Poland which is enlarged now to the
CEI (16 countries in
Central Europe Central &
Eastern Europe).
From
2000-
2001 Busek was
government commissioner of the eastern
EU enlargement and since January 1st 2002, he is Special Coordinator of the
Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.
He has
author authored several books about
Central Europe and
economic issues (see the list below).
Books
* Busek et al., 1975: Auf dem Weg zur qualitativen Marktwirtschaft.
* Busek (
editor), 1983: Mut zum aufrechten Gang.
* E.Brix & E.Busek, 1986: Projekt Mitteleuropa (''project Central Europe'').
*
Rudolf Bretschneider (ed.) & E.Busek, 1994: Mensch in Wort. Reden und Aufsätze.
* Busek, 1997: Eine Spurensicherung
* Busek, 1999: Österreich und der Balkan.
* E.Welzig (ed.), 1992: Erhard Busek - Ein Porträt.
External links
-
Detailed biography
-
Busek's page at the site of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe
Category:Vice-Chancellors of Austria Busek, Erhard
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| width="30%" align="center" rowspan=2| Preceded by:
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Josef Riegler'''
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ÖVP ÖVP Party Chairman'''
1991–1995
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Wolfgang Schüssel'''
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Vice Chancellor of Austria'''
1991–1995
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