Erwin Rasinger
Erwin Rasinger, born on July 7, 1952 in Wien, is an Austrian politician, doctor and a Member of Parliament for the ÖVP (Österreichische Volkspartei, Austrian People's Party) since 1994.
Political career[edit]
Rasingers political activity already began during his college days, where he was active as a student representative at the former Faculty of Medicine. During his training, he was also a doctors representative. From 1981 to 1987, he was Environmental Speaker of the Austrian Medical Association and from 1985 to 1994, the Environmental Protection Officer of the Medical Association of Vienna. Since 1985, he has been a Presidential consultant at the Vienna Medical Chamber. Rasinger was a member of the Vienna City Council between 1987 and 1991 and was a member of the Vienna Landtag.
Since November 7, 1994, he has represented the ÖVP as the National Health Speaker of the ÖVP parliamentary group. He has been the deputy chairman of the Health Committee since 1999. His political interests include preventive medicine, improving follow-up care, humanity in medicine, accessible and affordable healthcare for everyone, sports medicine and manual medicine. After the parliamentary elections in Austria in 2008, Rasinger had initially failed to win a seat because of the lower voting strength of his party in the National Council, but he did obtain one after the appointment of Josef Pröll as Vice Chancellor and therefore Rasinger was sworn in again on December 3, 2008.
Education[edit]
Erwin Rasinger attended primary school (1958-1962) and then went to the College of Kalksburg until 1970. After graduating, Rasinger studied medicine at the University of Vienna from 1970 and graduated in 1978 with a Doctorate. From 1970 to 1973, Rasinger also studied business administration at the University of World Trade. Since 1982, Rasinger has been working as a general practitioner.
Notable work[edit]
Rasinger received in 2002 the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich). The decoration comprises 15 grades and is Austria's highest national honour.
