Franv Voves (born February, 28th 1953 in Graz, Styria) is an Austrian politician of the SPÖ and a former player in the Austrian national ice hockey national team. He was vice-governor of Styria from March 12th 2002 to October 24th 2005. Since March, 2nd 2002 he is the chairman of the SPÖ Styria and since October 25th 2005, Governor of Styria. The Grazer Schloßberg Clock Tower Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec IPA: /gra. ... Styria redirects here. ... A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... The Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs, SPÖ) is a political party in Austria. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Landeshauptmann (literally country captain or state captain) is the German title of the governor of a state of Austria or of the Italian province of Bolzano (South Tyrol). ...

Personal life

Voves' father was a labourer and, until 1981, part of the municipal council of Graz (for the KPÖ); his mother was a housewive. He has three siblings, two brothers and one sister. He lives with his second wifeand a daughter from his first marriage. His current wife also has a son from her first marriage. The Communist Party of Austria (German: Kommunistische Partei Österreichs) is a communist party from Austria. ...

Sporting career

• 1967–1977: Centre for ATSE Graz
• 1975: Austrian Ice Hockey Champion with ATSE Graz
• 1970–1977: 75 games in the Austrian Ice Hockey National Team, participation in 7 Ice Hockey World Championships and the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck
• Since 1995: president of the ASKÖ-Styria und vice president of the national ASKÖ-Association

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Vocational career

• 1972–1978: studies of social science and economics
• 1978: trained as a tax advisor
• 1979–present: in the Merkur Versicherung AG
• 1989–2002: Merkur board member, responsible for the financial sector

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Political career

Since 1995, Voves has been a member of the board of the SPÖ in Styria. On the 2nd of March 2002, he became president of the SPÖ Styria and on the 12th of March he became vice-governor of Styria. In the 2005 elections for the Styrian government, Voves and his party got a majority with 41% of the votes, which was the first time since the Second World War that the SPÖ got a majority in an Austrian state election. On the 25nd of October 2005, 45 of the 56 members of the Styrian Landtag voted him governor of Styria. This article is becoming very long. ...

External links

• Voves Site on the official sites of Styria

This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of 29 June 2006.