Robert Lichal (born 9 July 1932,

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) is a retired Austrian politician for the

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(ÖVP).

Life

Lichal graduated from high school in 1950 and subsequently went to

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. As a student he studied

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, and in 1965, he earned a doctorate in law. As a so-called ''Weißer Jahrgang, ''he had to and rejected military service. He politically engaged himself as an Austrian Workers Federation (ÖAAB) member and member of the public service trade (OGB). From 1987 to 1991, he was the Federal Chancellor of the ÖAAB. From 1976 to 1979, Lichal was a member of the Federal Council of Austria. From 1979 to 1987, he was a deputy to the National Assembly of Austria. From 1987 to 1990, he held the post of defense minister at the Federal Ministry for National Defence and Sport. In his tenure, militia structure was enshrined in the Constitution and the

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received missiles. From 1990 to 1994, he was again member of parliament and the Second President-in-Office in the Second Republic. Lichal is a member of the Catholic fraternities Ö.kaV Rhaeto-Danubia Vienna and K.Ö.HV Franco Bavaria Vienna, both in the Austrian Cartellverband, and the Catholic Fraternity K.Ö.St.V. Austria Purkersdorf in the

Mittelschüler-Kartellverband The Mittelschüler-Kartell-Verband der katholischen farbentragenden Studentenkorporationen Österreichs or simply Mittelschüler-Kartellverband (MKV) is an Austrian umbrella organisation of Catholic male student fraternities (Studentenverbindung ...

Oerlikon Scandal

In 1987, it became known according to a report in a news magazine profile that Lichal had an order for 50,000 pieces of tracer practice ammunition for antiaircraft guns worth 35 million Austrian Schilling that had been awarded to the Swiss manufacturer Rheinmetall Air Defence, although the French supplier Matra Manurhin Defense an offer for 15 million Schillings. At the time of the award, the Bundesheer had ammunition reserves of 2 years. Lichal had ordered the Bundesheer at least three times to pass the more favorable offer from Matra. In 1988, a criminal investigation for abuse of authority was introduced, which included house searches at Lichal's home, his secretaries

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and Walter Schön home's, and the then Oerlikon-General representatives in Austria's homes'. Lichal and Schön were close friends and Spindelegger was a member of Cartellverband. One sticky note found read "2 party financing; and two million: Value of contract: 35 million Spindelegger: 1". Prosecutors suspected an illegal party financing for the ÖVP, after which was considered non-partisan, but the ÖVP Minister of Justice

Egmont Foregger Egmont Foregger (21 September 1922, Salzburg, Austria – 17 May 2007, Bruck an der Mur, Austria) was an Austrian jurist, official and politician. Life Foregger came from the old Austrian family of ''Foregger Ritter von Greiffenthurn''. He was ...

initiated disciplinary proceedings against the investigating prosecutor and the case of the Supreme Public Prosecutor that rendered the investigations invalid in 1990.Der Spiegel: Fliederbusch für die Gattin
15.

References

External links

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Radiobooks with Robert Lichal
in the online archive for the Österreichischen Mediathek {{DEFAULTSORT:Lichal, Robert University of Vienna alumni 1932 births Living people Cartellverband members Members of the National Council (Austria) Austrian Ministers of Defence Austrian People's Party politicians