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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Harald Ofner
- Harald Ofner (born 25 October 1932, Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian lawyer and politician for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Ofner attended, from 1942 to 1945, the Nazi-era National Political Institutes of Education in Traiskirchen near Vienna.
- He then learned the profession of the heavy current monitors.
- He attended a Matura School and then studied law (Dr.
- iur., 1958).
- By 1965, he was a working lawyer. His political career began in the town council of Mödling.
- From 1976 to 1986, he was a provincial team leader of the FPÖ Lower Austria branch.
- From 1979 to 1983, and from 1986 to 2002 he was a deputy to the National Council.
- From 1983 to 1987, Ofner was Austrian justice minister in the governments of Fred Sinowatz and Franz Vranitzky. Ofner previously defended Peter Paul Rainer in 2000.
- Rainer, which by 1997 was the former party chairman and co-founder of the South Tyrol-based FPÖ offshoot Die Freiheitlichen, had shot Christian Waldner, one of the other co-founding members of Die Freiheitlichen.
- Despite efforts by Ofner, Rainer was, shortly after his arrest in the Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus district of Vienna, extradited to Italy.
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