Mirko Messner

Dr. Mirko Messner (* December 16th 1948 in Slovenj Gradec, Socialist Republic of Slovenia), real name Štefan Miroslav Messner[1], is an Austrian, Carinthian Slovene Slavicist and communist politician, leading the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) since February 2006.[2][3]

Mirko Messner
Štefan Miroslav Messner
Born (1948-12-16) December 16, 1948
Slovenj Gradec, Socialist Republic of Slovenia
NationalityAustrian
Alma materSlavic studies, University of Vienna
Mirko Messner
Chairman of the Communist Party of Austria (KPO)
Assumed office
27 February 2006
Preceded byWalter Baier
Personal details
Political partyCommunist Party of Austria (KPÖ)

Life

After graduating from high school, he studied Slavic studies and German studies at the University of Vienna, where he also did his doctorate in 1977.[1]

As a teenager, he was politically active in the Verband Sozialistischer Mittelschüler (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 and became involved in the Slovene Students' Association (Koroška dijaška zveza). During this time he 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 offices (among other things, he was a member 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, he was initially active in the reconstitution of the KPÖ in Klagenfurt and was finally elected to the party's federal executive board and its minority spokesman in February 2006. In March of the same year, Messner was also elected Federal Spokesperson for the Party together with Melina Klaus. 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]

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References
  1. search.obvsg.at https://search.obvsg.at/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=OBV_alma71386426100003331&context=L&vid=OBV&lang=de_DE. Retrieved 2020-07-06. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  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. Nationalratswahlen: Alle Spitzenkandidaten im Portrait.
  7. "Nationalratswahlen: Alle Spitzenkandidaten im Portrait". nachrichten.at (in German). Retrieved 2020-07-06.
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