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Hans Peter Haselsteiner (born 1 February 1944, in
Wörgl
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) is an Austrian industrialist and former politician.
Education
After his
Matura
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, Hans Peter Haselsteiner studied business economics at the
Vienna University of Economics and Business
The Vienna University of Economics and Business (german: Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, WU) is a public research university in Vienna, Austria, the largest university focusing on business, management and economics in Europe. It has been ranked ...
, from where he graduated in 1970.
Industrial background
After working some time as an accountant, he joined his father-in-law's contracting business, Isola & Lerchbaumer (later Ilbau) in 1972. Through a series of takeovers, he expanded the company, now known as
Strabag
STRABAG SE is an Austrian construction company based in Spittal an der Drau, Austria, with its headquarters in Vienna. It is the largest construction company in Austria and one of the largest construction companies in Europe. The company is act ...
, into an international
concern, which he controls through the holding company FIMAG (Finanz Industrie Management AG), of which he is the majority shareholder.
* At the beginning of the 70's, he became chairman of Ilbau AG
* In 1998, he became chairman of Bau Holding.
* In 2006 he became chairman of Strabag SE.
* Haselsteiner is shareholder and director of the Rail Holding AG, which operates the
WESTbahn
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train, a passenger train competing with
ÖBB
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between
Vienna
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and
Salzburg
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.
June 2012, Haselsteiner announced he would resign his executive position in Strabag in June 2014.
Political involvement
Hans Peter Haselsteiner was an MP in the
Nationalrat from 1994 to 1998, under the banner of the
Liberal Forum
The Liberal Forum (german: Liberales Forum, LiF) was a centrist, liberal political party in Austria. The party was active from February 1993 to January 2014, when the party merged into NEOS – The New Austria.
A member of the Liberal Intern ...
(LiF), of which he became club vice-chairman in 1996.
Other positions included:
* "Kammerrat" (consellor) of the Austrian Federal Chamber of technical Economics
* member of the Austrian association of the Building industry since 1994 (chairman since 2002).
During the
Austrian legislative elections in September 2008, Haselsteiner was responsible for finance for the Lif. He was also chairman of the support committee to the party leader
Heide Schmidt, who was chosen after the resignation of
Alexander Zach
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five days before the election. The poll was lost, and Schmidt and Haselsteiner retired from political activity later that year, announcing the failure of the LiF project.
In 2016 he funded a campaign against
FPÖ
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politician
Norbert Hofer, who candidated for
President.
He also gave financial contributions to
NEOS Party in the Austrian national elections of 2017.
Philanthropy
After the failure of the LiF, Haselsteiner supported the Institut für eine offene Gesellschaft (Institute for an open Society), founded by
Heide Schmidt.
Haselsteiner is also deeply involved in helping homeless people. He promoted the construction of 16 social housing projects in Vienna.
His private foundation funds half of the budget of father
Georg Sorschill's social center for elderly and needy people in
Moldova
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(the other half is funded by the Austrian state).
In Summer 2008, he gave a substantial donation to save the refugee project of Ute Bock in Vienna.
Helicopter crash
In November 2021, Haselsteiner's helicopter (a
Bell 429 registered OE-XCE) crashed during landing at
Vienna Neustadt East Airport. The pilot, a 50-year-old from
Carinthia
Carinthia (german: Kärnten ; sl, Koroška ) is the southernmost States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The main language is German language, German. Its regional dialects belong to t ...
, was killed. Haselsteiner had disembarked the helicopter in
Semmering a few minutes before the crash. The flight had originated in
Bolzano
Bolzano ( or ; german: Bozen, (formerly ); bar, Bozn; lld, Balsan or ) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third la ...
, Italy.
References
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1944 births
Living people
Austrian politicians
Austrian industrialists
Vienna University of Economics and Business alumni