Mirko Messner

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Mirko Messner
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Chairman of the Communist Party of Austria (KPO)
Assumed office
27 February 2006
Preceded by
Personal details
Born
Štefan Miroslav Messner

(1948-12-16) December 16, 1948 (age 72)
Slovenj Gradec, Socialist Republic of Slovenia (today Slovenia)
NationalityAustrian
Political partyCommunist Party of Austria (KPÖ)
Alma materSlavic studies, University of Vienna

Štefan Miroslav "Mirko" Messner (born December 16, 1948 in Slovenj Gradec),[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, Messner studied Slavic studies and German studies at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1977.[1]

As a teenager, he was politically active in the (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 he became involved in the Slovene Students' Association (Koroška dijaška zveza) and 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 party offices, including membership 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, Messer was initially active in the reconstitution of the KPÖ in Klagenfurt and was finally elected as the party's minority spokesman and a member of its federal executive board in February 2006. In March of the same year, Messner was also elected Federal Spokesperson for the party together with . 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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  2. ^ "KPÖ". www.kpoe.at. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  3. ^ Nationalratswahlen: Alle Spitzenkandidaten im Portrait.
  4. ^ "Verband Sozialistischer Mittelschüler | AustriaWiki im Austria-Forum". austria-forum.org. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  5. ^ search.obvsg.at https://search.obvsg.at/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=OBV_alma71332037260003331&context=L&vid=OBV&lang=de_DE. Retrieved 2020-07-06. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Nationalratswahlen: Alle Spitzenkandidaten im Portrait.
  7. ^ "Nationalratswahlen: Alle Spitzenkandidaten im Portrait". nachrichten.at (in German). Retrieved 2020-07-06.
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