One might Florian Kreibich don’t know: boredom. The Salzburg ÖVP mayoral candidate is a lawyer and is also employed in so many organizations, clubs or supervisory boards that you have to ask yourself: Where is there still time for politics? This is exactly what the former “hobby politician” (self-description) now wants to make his job, as a “man of the middle” in the executive chair at Mirabell Palace.
Even if the on Lawyer born April 9, 1969 Having already sat in the state parliament for nine years and now serving as a local councilor in the town hall for five years, he has not yet left a deep mark or shown a clear political profile. It is therefore currently only possible to guess what direction he would like to take with his People’s Party after March 10th. In any case, he wants to go into the election as the “only centrist candidate” who wants to protect the city of Mozart from the godsend in the form of a communist mayor and also wants to prevent the FPÖ from taking a “completely conceptless right-wing course”.
In his previous statements he admits Deviation from the previously very conservative course of the city ÖVP (“if in doubt, I would choose a tree and not a parking space”), but slogans such as “Salzburg must remain Salzburg”. not too much of a realignment expect.
In Kreibich’s political inventory you can find performance, property, personal responsibility, a stable financial or a consistent security policy right next to a mobility transition, the massive expansion of childcare offerings (“from the first year of life”) or a freezing of city fees for five years. On climate However, he hasn’t said a single word about the environment or the environment in his previous broadcasts.
Considered a personnel reserve
The lawyer had been considered a lawyer for a long time City ÖVP personnel reserve: In 2014 he was slated to be a city councilor behind the then deputy mayor Harald Preuner – with the plan to succeed him at some point. But the ballot was a fiasco for the People’s Party, and Kreibich, with 13th place on the list, didn’t even make it into the town hall as a simple local councilor. “I don’t know exactly what will happen next,” he said at the time, but “it is clear that I will be available as deputy mayor, when exactly that will be, in six months, in two years, in four years, I can do that “Don’t say.” The time could now come in 2024, because if it wasn’t enough for the boss’s office, he would also the “vice” do it, he announced.
Even though he doesn’t come from a “typical ÖVP family”, Kreibich was interested in politics from a very early age. A kind of political socialization came from his uncle (second degree) and Green Party veteran Herbert Fux “But he didn’t manage to get me to join the Green Party.” Especially now during the election campaign, he often thinks back to the very good but controversial conversations with him. Kreibich was already involved as school representative in secondary school, during the Then he studied in the ÖVP-affiliated action group.
Then he interrupted his studies for two years in the office of the Carinthian ÖVP state governor Christoph Zernatto (“my cousin’s husband”) – by the way, it was to be his only long-term stay outside of Salzburg. Later, as a lawyer, he took on positions in the Economic Association, from 2004 to 2013 Member of the state parliament and it has belonged to Salzburg since 2019 Municipal council at. The latter, by the way, was again unplanned, because he only moved to the town hall as a “vacation representative” for a mandatary who was on leave.
Tennis president and parish councilor
Florian Kreibich can confidently be described as a “jack of all trades”, his radius hardly misses any area of life: he is – among other things – a paramedic with the Red Cross, president of the 1st Salzburg Tennis Club, Protestant parish councilor, co-owner of the Hotel Gersberg-Alm, President of the Romantik Hotels in Austria, Gaisberg coordinator, official in the state fishing association and multiple supervisory board member. Of course, all of this provides insights that should not be a disadvantage for a mayor.