Alois Stöger

Alois Stöger (born 3 September 1960) is an Austrian politician who served as minister of transport, innovation, and technology from 2014 to 2016 and minister of labour, social affairs, and consumer protection from 2016 to 2017. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), he served as minister of health from 2008 to 2014.

Alois Stöger
Member of the National Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 December 2017
Parliamentary leader	Christian Kern & Andreas Schieder
Parliamentary group	Social Democratic Party
Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection
In office 26 January 2016 – 18 December 2017
Chancellor	Christian Kern Werner Faymann
Preceded by	Rudolf Hundstorfer
Succeeded by	Beate Hartinger-Klein
Minister of Transport, Innovation and Technology
In office 2 September 2014 – 26 January 2016
Chancellor	Werner Faymann
Preceded by	Doris Bures
Succeeded by	Gerald Klug
Minister of Health
In office 2 December 2008 – 2 September 2014
Chancellor	Werner Faymann
Preceded by	Andrea Kdolsky
Succeeded by	Sabine Oberhauser
Personal details
Born	(1960-09-03) 3 September 1960 Linz, Austria
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Education	Social academy of the Austrian Chamber of Labour(1986-1987) European Trade Union Academy Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg and Linz

Life and career

Born in Linz, Stöger attended elementary school in Allerheiligen between 1966 and 1971 and secondary modern school/junior high school in Perg from 1971 to 1975. Afterwards he took an apprenticeship as a machine fitter until 1979. From 1979 to 1986 he was a skilled worker in the Voest Alpine AG. He became secretary of the union Metals-Mining-Energy (Metall-Bergbau-Energie) in the Gmunden district in 1986. He attended the social academy of the Austrian Chamber of Labour between 1986 and 1987 and completed training as a supervisor in 1982. Stöger also trained at the European Trade Union Academy and studied social practice at the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg and Linz. In 2000 he finished his studies with the Diplôme des Hautes Etudes des Pratiques Sociales.

Since 1997, Stöger has been a member of the local council of Gallneukirchen, serving as an alderman between 2003 and 2008. He was councillor in the Chamber of Labour in Upper Austria from 2000 to 2008 and served as Minister of Health, Family Affairs and Youth from 2 December 2008 to 31 January 2009. From February 2009 to September 2014 he served as Minister of Health, and since September 2014 he serves as Minister of Transport, Innovation and Technology.

External links

• Biography, contact details and speeches since 1996 of Alois Stöger at the Parliament of Austria (German)