Markus Vogl (born 27 November 1970) is an

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

n politician and former member of the National Council. A member of the

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, he represented

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from October 2013 to January 2021. Vogl was born on 27 November 1970 in

Steyr Steyr (; ) is a statutory city (Austria), statutory city, located in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria. It is the administrative capital, though not part of Steyr-Land District. Steyr is Austria's 12th most populated town and the 3rd lar ...

. His early education was at

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as his mother was a

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and a shift worker at Steyr plants. He worked for

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from 1991 to 2010 designing driver's cabs. He joined the

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at MAN in 2000 and served as its chairman from 2010 to 2019. He has been a member of the

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of the Union of Private Sector Employees, Printing, Journalism, and Paper (GPA-DJP) since 2014 and chairman of the union's

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n branch since 2015. He has been a member of the board of the

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(ÖGB) since 2015. He has held various positions in the Gleink and Steyr branches of the

(SPÖ) since 2009 and is a member of the party's federal executive. He was elected to the National Council at the 2013 legislative election. He resigned in January 2021 to become deputy mayor of Steyr and was replaced by Elisabeth Feichtinger in the National Council. He became mayor of Steyr in November 2021.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vogl, Markus 1970 births 21st-century mayors of places in Austria Austrian trade unionists Living people Members of the 25th National Council (Austria) Members of the 26th National Council (Austria) Members of the 27th National Council (Austria) People from Steyr Social Democratic Party of Austria politicians