MEP ret. Dr. Hannes Swoboda
Vienna
Member of the board: Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue (Vienna),
A Soul for Europe (Berlin)
Vice-President of Institute for International Peace (Vienna)
Senior Fellow of Mercator Foundation (Sabanci University Istanbul)
Member of the European Council for Foreign Affairs
10.11.1946 Born in Bad Deutsch Altenburg
EDUCATION
1964-1972 University of Vienna
Doctor of Laws (LLD)
MA in Economics
VIENNESE POLITICS
1972-1986 Vienna Chamber of Labour
1972 Department of Economic Affairs (responsible for finance and environmental policy)
1976-1986 Director of the newly founded Department for municipal, economic, health and housing policy
1983-1994 Local government
1983-1988 Member of the Vienna Assembly and Municipal Council
1986-1988 Socialist Group coordinator in the Vienna Assembly and Municipal Council
1988-1994 Municipal councillor responsible for:
1988 urban development, urban planning and staff
1991 urban development, urban planning and transport
1994 urban development, urban planning and external relation of the City of Vienna
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
1996-June 2014 Member of the European Parliament
Member of different comities including Foreign Affairs Comity
S&D Group Functions:
2012-June 2014 resident of S&D Group
1996-2012 Vice-President of S&D Group
AUSTRIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY SPÖ
since 1971 Austrian Social Democratic Party Member
1978-1983 District councilor
1988-2011 Chairman of the Meidling district
1986-1988 Socialist Group coordinator in the Vienna Assembly and Municipal Council
since 1989 Member of the Vienna SPÖ Executive Board
1995-2010 Responsible for education programs of the SPÖ
since 1997 Member of the SPÖ Federal Executive Board
PUBLICATIONS
Fischmann, Lothar, Hannes Swoboda and Arnold Klotz, comp. and ed. Wien erfahren. Vienna: Springer Verlag, 1996.
Flasikova-Benova, Monika, Hannes Swoboda and Jan Marinus Wiersma, comp. and ed. Roma: A European Minority
The Challenge of Diversity. Brussels: S&D Group, 2011.
Häupl, Michael and Hannes Swoboda comp. and ed. Bleibt Wien Wien? Vienna: Falter Verlag, 1995.
Klima, Viktor, Susan Ness, Hannes Swoboda and Franz Vranitzky. The Hidden Agenda of the Information Society:
Global Trends and Local Choices. Vienna: Studien Verlag, 1997.
Swoboda, Hannes. OUR D’EUROPE Ein europäisches Tagesbuch. Vienna: Own publication, published quarterly.
Swoboda, Hannes and Jan Marinus Wiersma, comp. and ed. Politics of the Past: The Use and Abuse of History. Brussels: SPE-Group, 2009.
Swoboda, Hannes and Jan Marinus Wiersma, comp. and ed. Peace and Disarmament: A World without Nuclear Weapons? Brussels: SPE-Group, 2009.
Swoboda, Hannes and Jan Marinus Wiersma, comp. and ed. Democracy, Populism and Minority Rights. Brussels:SPE-Group, 2008.
Swoboda, Hannes and Christophe Solioz, comp. and ed. Conflict and Renewal: Europe Transformed. Essays in
Honour of Wolfgang Petritsch. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007.
Swoboda, Hannes. Der Schlossplatz in Berlin. Bilanz einer Debatte. Berlin: B & S Siebenhaar, 2002.
Swoboda, Hannes. Tour d’Europe. Etappen auf dem Weg zu einem neuen Europa. Klagenfurt/Celovec:Wieser-Verlag, 2002.
Swoboda, Hannes. Europatagebuch 1999/2000: An den Grenzen Europas. Vienna: Zukunftswerkstätte und Kulturwerkstätte, 2000.
Swoboda, Hannes. Mein Europa. Auf der Suche nach Sicherheit und Freiheit. Vienna: ECHO-Verlag, 1999.
Angerer, Bernhard, Manfred Buchinger, Ulli Knes and Hannes Swoboda. Buchinger Kocht Europa. Vienna:Echomedia, 1998.
Swoboda, Hannes, comp. and ed. WIEN. IDENTITÄT UND STADTGESTALT. Vienna: Böhlau, 1990.
HANNES SWOBODA ONLINE
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