New book Published – Turning Chancellor is 80: “What we can learn …”

He wanted to stay with his book “Against It” – against the uncertainties that the Russian raids have brought and offer “arguments for trust and especially in our time and future,” writes Schüssel in his book.

No genes, drives, lots, external circumstances, environmentalembossing are crucial, “but only how we deal with it,” says the former Chancellor and proponents of trust, Joie de Vivre, community, homemade tasks and plans “.

Schüssel-Haider-Pact 2000 heated the spirits
Schüssel is still the long chairman of the ÖVP – and probably one of the more exciting Chancellor of Austria in recent decades. The jubilee was formed by the Catholic liberal environment, and then Jörg Haiders FPö was raised as the government in 2000. There was also a bowl of someone who came from the chamber state and yet put the social partnership in trouble. And like a glowing European, the EU and its sanctions against the black and blue government have just added the person as the most difficult defeat.

Beginings in Ö3 and Jus Studies
Schüssel is not too rich in financial circumstances, grew up with his mother, went to a Viennese private high school, connected to the then young broadcaster Ö3 in a searched progressive programs and also has a very classic study of the study that the Jus -Student has. The People’s Party became his political home early on, in the parliamentary club he was one of the secretaries, the Business Association, whose generals secretary he became, was his career ladder.

The further path of political talent, which was laughed at at that time because of his preference, was almost logical. Schüssel initially became Minister of Economy, and he took over the party chairman in 1995, with which Vice -ChanCundelie and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Schüssel showed his risk refinity in 1995 when he was a chairman of the chairman of the new elections. The voter, however, wanted to continue to see Franz Vranitzky in the Chancellery, a coalition of black with blue came for what reasons were not yet created at that time, and Schüssel had to give the Vice Chancellor for another year.

The Chancellor of the Wall
His big hour hooked just after the elections of the National Council of 1999, in which he only led the ÖVP to third place. After unbearable and long poker, the red-black negotiations failed and Bowls soon came with the FPö, which was important. Despite his promise that was previously expressed in the election campaign, he had the blue converted into a Chancellor.

The national and international protests including sanctions were huge. Schüssel also included the chancellery under these circumstances as if it were the most natural in the world. His reform policy is polarized – under the motto “Less State, more private”, extensive reforms were established, including the sale of real estate of the state. The purchase of the Eurofighter also fell under his AEGIS.

“Silence Chancellor” used FPö Crash
The constant cross recordings of the jealous Haider remained in Carinthia had the sharp government’s sharp government in a “silence Chancellor,” because he was mainly entitled by the political competition. Schüssel held course, surrounded by the always believers such as Wilhelm molter, Elisabeth Gehrer and Ursula Plassnik, the ÖVP -Baas had turned off almost everything on the outside, even if he became visibly harder from year to year.

The free coup of Knittelfeld was understood by Schüssel as an opportunity. In 2002, the election campaign of his life was probably. Bowl, otherwise in handling almost everyone with the condescending, became a Volkstribun. People do not necessarily borrow their hearts, but their voices because they wanted to keep him as a chancellor. Schüssel won brilliant, flirting a bit with the greens and then remained with FPö or BZö in a coalition that some experienced experienced as an ÖVP all-instillation.

To this day, Schüssel defends many of his Freedom Government partners. Only he will know if cynicism is sensitive to those who were a bit beautiful or that one “giant” as “giants” or that actually believes.

Member, the supervisory board, author and grandfather
The end of the bowl of the bowl was reached in 2006 when the ÖVP wasted a victory that was considered a safe victory after the Bawag affair and Alfred Gusenbauer became the head of the government of a red and black government. Schüssel, who is not strange to the Gräsche in the football match that he loved, now did a lot as a club chair to retain the Chancellor of his successor who was not so different. To this day, few understand why he, the noise, was open to the sound, even afterwards as a simple parliamentary member in parliament, before he retired in 2011 in the journey of the Telekom affair in 2011, although there are no serious accusations against him.

Mountaineer, caricaturist, cello player
Since then, Schüssel has hardly commented on daily policy, and, if so, usually only at European level. He has largely withdrawn from his roles in various supervisory councils, around 2022 after increasing the criticism of the supervisory council of the Russian oil company Lukoil. He continues to work as an author and teacher. Schüssel is and is considered a beautiful speaker, who has hardly reached his successors of the lawn so far. Private is just as enthusiastic as a caricaturist and cello player, likes to move in the world of the big ones and has modestly modest in the same apartment for decades and enjoys an alpine hut in Styria. His marriage to psychologist Krista, his daughter, actress and director Nina Blum, and a son, also disappeared any political storms. He probably has more time for his role as an enthusiastic grandfather.