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Jörg Haider
Jörg Haider was an Austrian politician. He was Governor of Carinthia on two occasions, the long-time leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and later Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Austria, a breakaway party from the FPÖ.
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Born 26 January 1950 · Died 11 October 2008 · Q44274
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2026· 2 entries
DER SPIEGEL: Jörg Haider: Was bleibt vom Erbe des populären FPÖ-Chefs? Podcast
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2025· 1 entry
ORF: Neues Buch über Jörg-Haider präsentiert
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2024· 1 entry
kleinezeitung: Brot und Spiele am Wörthersee: Jörg Haiders „Lieblingsfeindin“ erinnert sich, wie das damals so war
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2019· 1 entry
Fr: Jörg-Haider-Legenden
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2018· 2 entries
kleinezeitung: Jörg Haider: Das letzte Interview Stunden vor der Todesfahrt
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Profil: Jörg Haider: „Reder hat seine Pflicht getan“
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2013· 1 entry
UPI: Topic: Jorg Haider
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2010· 1 entry
Foreign Policy: Did Austrian far-right leader Jorg Haider take money from Saddam and Qaddafi?
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2009· 1 entry
Carinthia had the highest per-capita debt in Austria
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2008· 1 entry
Died 2008-10-11.
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2005· 1 entry
Career landmark: BZÖ Chairman (2005–2008).
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2002· 1 entry
Haider's support in Carinthia did not diminish and he succeeded in the 2004 elections receiving a slightly higher percentage (42
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2000· 3 entries
At a gathering of Wehrmacht veterans in Ulrichsberg, including Waffen-SS veterans, he said, "Those who come to Ulrichsberg are not the old Nazis
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Austrian-American actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger criticised anti-immigrant remarks made by Haider: "As an immigrant myself, I am offended by anyone who makes anti-immigrant statements, and it is my opinion th
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Haider's Freedom Party unexpectedly came in second after the Social Democrats (SPÖ) in the 1999 parliamentary elections
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1999· 3 entries
Was slightly stronger than Schüssel's party, was reduced to 10
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Haider again was elected governor of Carinthia by the Carinthian parliament, where the FPÖ now held a plurality of more than 42%
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Career landmark: governor of Carinthia (1999–2008).
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1994· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the National Council of Austria (1994–1999).
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1993· 1 entry
Headed by Heide Schmidt, who had served as Haider's deputy chairman and run as the FPÖ's candidate for presidency in 1992
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1992· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the National Council of Austria (1992–1994).
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1991· 1 entry
In a debate in the regional parliament, a Socialist leader attacked Haider's plan of reducing unemployment payments for people seen as "freeloaders", calling it forced work placement reminiscent of Nazi policies
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1990· 1 entry
Said that the veterans were "decent people of good character" and "remain true to their convictions"
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1989· 2 entries
ÖVP and FPÖ formed a coalition and elected Haider as Landeshauptmann (governor) of Carinthia
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Career landmark: governor of Carinthia (1989–1991).
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1986· 3 entries
When he defeated Austrian Vice Chancellor Norbert Steger in the vote for party leadership at the party convention in September in Innsbruck; many delegates feared that Steger's liberal political views and his coalition w
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Career landmark: member of the National Council of Austria (1986–1989).
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Career landmark: chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria (1986–2000).
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1983· 2 entries
When he inherited the estate of Wilhelm Webhofer, who had owned a large parcel of land in Carinthia commonly known as "Bärental" (bear valley)
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His policies became more aggressive, when he rose to party head of the Carinthian FPÖ and started to criticise the leaders of the FPÖ, which at that time was still a minor political movement in Austria, usually winning o
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1979· 2 entries
Was the youngest delegate among the 183 members of parliament, at age 29
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Career landmark: member of the National Council of Austria (1979–1983).
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1974· 1 entry
Started to work at the University of Vienna law faculty in the department of constitutional law
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1973· 1 entry
Studied at University of Vienna, Doctor of Laws (1969–1973).
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1972· 1 entry
At the age of 22, he was already a well-established leader and was made party affairs manager of the Carinthian FPÖ in 1976
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1970· 1 entry
Haider became the leader of the FPÖ youth movement and headed it until 1975
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1969· 1 entry
Moved to Vienna and began studying Law and Political Science at the University of Vienna
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1968· 1 entry
Was drafted into the Austrian Army, where he voluntarily spent more than the compulsory nine months (called "the voluntary one year")
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1955· 2 entries
Josef Webhofer's son, Wilhelm, not a blood relative of Haider but rather a "Wahlonkel" or uncle-by-choice, inherited the estate and later bequeathed it to Haider
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And initially was a mixture of various political currents opposed both to the political catholicism of the Austrian People's Party and the socialist views of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ)
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1950· 2 entries
Born 1950-01-26.
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A time when his parents' finances were rather moderate, and his elder sister, Ursula, was four years old
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1945· 1 entry
Married Dorothea Rupp, at that time a leader in the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM)
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1941· 1 entry
One Josef Webhofer (a former resident of South Tyrol, Italy, and an Optant) paid 300,000 Reichsmark (equivalent to 1 million euros in 2021) to obtain title to the land
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1938· 1 entry
After it was annexed by Nazi Germany (the Anschluss)
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1933· 1 entry
Robert Haider moved to Bavaria but returned to Austria the following year after the failed Nazi attempt to overthrow the Austrian government with the July Putsch
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1929· 1 entry
As a fifteen-year-old boy, four years before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany
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