Former chairman of the Third National Council, Gerulf Stix, died on Thursday at the age of 89. This was announced by Tyrolean FPÖ leader Markus Abwerzger. Stix was the third chairman of the National Council from 1983 to 1990 and before that a member of the National Council for more than 18 years.
From 1973 to 1985 he led the Tyrolean state party FPÖ. Stix was born in Vienna, graduated in Innsbruck and studied economics. He also worked as an economic advisor and at his political peak he was also deputy federal party chairman. He would have turned 90 years old on January 28.
“The death of Gerulf Stix is a great loss. He was a very active honorary chairman. We had very good contact and he was always an important advisor to me,” says Abwerzger. Other politicians were also affected. “Stix was a liberal veteran, he was a democrat and patriot in the best sense of the word (…). He was also an opponent of nuclear energy – this attitude is now an unshakable consensus in the Austrian party landscape,” said Walter Rosenkranz (FPÖ), President of the National Council.
“Whatever political position, Gerulf Stix always fulfilled it with the greatest commitment and was also a great liberal thinker and visionary in many areas. It is largely thanks to him that the FPÖ became the first ‘environmental party’ in Austria in the 1960s and 1970s under the motto ‘Environmental protection is the protection of the homeland’,” said FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl.
The third chairman of the National Council, Doris Bures (SPÖ), said in a broadcast that Stix was “respected across party lines for his understanding of the office.” Your condolences go out to his family.
Source: Krone
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