Christoph Zarits – Turkish hope with a safe train to the goal

Three weeks ago, Christoph Zarits from Zagersdorf was unanimously chosen as the designated state party chairman of the Burgenland ÖVP. Since then, the 44-year-old has a major responsibility, it is finally stated that he brings the broken party, which after the election step last January to third place, on course until the next state elections 2030 and catapults to the Government Bank.

Not an easy enterprise, but Zarits wants to try it. “I have adopted this task because I owe the ÖVP a lot. Because I trust many important personalities in the party that I can ensure calmness, stability and dialogue with other parties. And because I have the best contact in the federal government thanks to my good, friendly relationship with Federal Chancellor Christian Stocker and Club Chairman of the source of Burgen. I will use this connection.

Does Doskozil have to dress hot quickly?
For this, the consensus – oriented opposition figure “wants to collaborate with all parties that have good ideas” – also with the Spö. Niemand hoeft een knuffelige cursus te verwachten met Hans Peter Doskozil: “Ik heb een correcte relatie met de gouverneur en ondersteunen individuele onderwerpen van rood-groen, die zich afspelen in het overheidsprogramma, zoals non-profit werk voor asielzoekers, de introductie van vrijwilligersverzekering en meer transparantie in dit opzicht, er is een grote behoefte om hier in de staat in te vangen in de staat.”

He learned his company from the Snoek
Zarits have been involved in politics for more than a quarter of a century. He could do nothing else, he keeps hearing. But such a criticism bounces from him because he knows that you also have to learn your craft for it. As a teenager, the passionate kicker of the young ÖVP joined “to shape the active village life that was then under ÖVP mayor Mathias Fritz in my home community”.

After high school washing, he hired in the Chamber of Agriculture before he moved to the ÖVP Burgenland under Vizeland captain Franz Steindl and was involved as regional managers. At the age of 22, Zarits became a city council, with 27 Vice -Mayor. During this eleven -year term, he proved with events such as balls, Oktoberfest, Sautrayers and the “Mother’s Day Cinema”, “that social policy can also be made than party boundaries”.

In one of these village balls, he even welcomed Sebastian Kurz, then State Secretary, as a guest: “He threw a round and wondered how cheap he was with us!” Even if there is “no contact” between the two, when he became a Chancellor, it was absolutely “a door opener”, says Zarits, who has been in the National Council with a mandate in Burgenland since 2018 and from 2018 to April 2025.

An explanation of love to his wife and the party
However, he also owes his remarkable career to his wife Evelyn, who worked in the ÖVP Landtag Club and is now a regional office manager in the Chamber of Commerce. The two have been a few since 2010 and are married for seven years. They got to know each other about the party. For this, Zarits of the ÖVP Burgenland is “grateful for all eternal”: “Evelyn is the best that has ever happened to me. She supports and pushes me. Without her support, there would not have been that way.

In any case, he found not only a companion in his wife with whom he shares the same values, but also a real sports friend. “We Both are Enthusiastic about Sports and Like to Go to Skiing and Playing Football. We recently looked at a match in the stage in Barcelona,” Says Zarits, who, as the Sports Spokesman for the bundes-ibvp, to get herverdrings Bundes-Bildrings Or training on the rowing machine.

His father -in -Waw is more well -known freedom
Zarits also pays thanks to his parents, who are primary for child and youth medicine in the Eisenstadt Hospital): “After there is a cost limit for the campaign campaign, my father and I strive a week before the Districts of Eisenstadt, Mattersburg and Neijiedl set up a week for the national council election in 2024 and they have 200.” Was he able to convince his father -in -law, a retired police officer and former blue police -trade union, as well as the ÖVP? “What my in -Waws in the election cell is not important to me. It is crucial that we understand each other well. I don’t care.”

Stermann and Grissemann announced him
Not every politician can say that. For many, moral integrity is strange. How is Zarits doing with the fact that his company is often a dirty? And what does he do to stay clean? “Be faithful to my line and make decisions, even if they are not popular. So I can look in the mirror every day.” So he doesn’t think about show policy, even if he has obtained the satirical show “Welcome Austria” with his very first speech in the Hohe -House, because he said excitedly with the speaker: “I am especially grateful to my voters who chose the preferred votes directly for parliament. I am also obliged to vote.”

The pointed moderators of the tongue of Dirk Stermann and Christoph Grissemann immediately used the recipient to Zarits as “absolute female understood”. Can he laugh about it? “I saw the show live on TV at the time and did not find it so funny at first. But I took the mistake with humor and immediately posted the post on social media. That made me known in one. But I don’t want to experience something like that again because I didn’t sleep well that night,” he says and laughs.