Linz City Senate

Mayor Klaus Luger (SPÖ)

Responsibilities

  • Matters pertaining to business development including location development and labor market trend (including apprentice qualification)
  • Matters pertaining to science and innovation funding
  • Innovation management
  • Industry and hydrogen technology
  • Matters pertaining to the climate staff position
  • Digitalisation matters
  • Matters pertaining to the Universities and the Universities of Applied Sciences 
  • EU fundings
  • Presidential administrative matters, insofar as they are unspecified in the following list
  • Matters pertaining to the media 
  • The designation of traffic areas, urban properties including parks and municipal schools
  • Issuing the owner’s declarations of consent in relation to the private and public property owned by the City of Linz 
  • Exercising ownership authority related to the City of Linz’s participation in companies 
  • Matters pertaining to subsidies of up to 5,000 Euros and to department-specific subsidies amounting to more than 5,000 Euros
  • Other matters pertaining to civil law 
  • Other matters of the City Senate, insofar as they are not assigned to other members of the City Senate

The Mayor

Mayor Klaus Luger (SPÖ)

Deputy Mayor Karin Hörzing (SPÖ)

Responsibilities

  • Social issues, including voluntary social welfare assistance and other voluntary social services, the children’s and family aid programme, the children’s health care programme, as well as the initiation and dimensioning of social services  
  • Senior care (incl. the planning of senior centres)
  • Matters pertaining to the enterprise "Kinder- und Jugend-Services Linz" (or KJS, Linz Children’s and Youth Services)
  • Matters pertaining to kids and youth playgrounds
  • Sports-related matters  
  • Department-specific subsidies amounting to more than 5,000 Euros
Deputy Mayor Karin Hörzing (SPÖ)

Deputy Mayor Mag. Martin Hajart, MBA – ÖVP

Responsibilities

  • Planning, building and maintaining traffic areas, including bridge construction 
  • Other traffic planning measures 
  • Transportation facilities
  • The local traffic police force  
  • Department-specific subsidies amounting to more than 5,000 Euros
Deputy Mayor Mag. Bernhard Baier (ÖVP)

Deputy Mayor Tina Blöchl (SPÖ)

Responsibilities

  • Financial matters (including the parking space management zones)
  • Asset management, including the participation in companies
  • Personnel matters
  • LGBTIQ* matters
  • Matters pertaining to the promotion of integration
  • Department-specific subsidies amounting to more than 5,000 Euros
Deputy Mayor Tina Blöchl (SPÖ)

City Councillor Mag.a Eva Schobesberger (GRÜNE)

Responsibilities

  • Matters pertaining to the promotion of women’s issues 
  • Climate matters, with the exception of industry and hydrogen technology
  • Nature conservation and environmental protection matters
  • Matters pertaining to hydraulic engineering, including the renaturation of bodies of water
  • Matters pertaining to industrial operational facilities
  • Matters pertaining to the city’s parks, gardens, green spaces and forests of the city
  • Matters pertaining to city nursery
  • Design and maintenance of the traffic green, planning of the traffic green spaces (right of codecision concerning location and dimension)
  • Matters pertaining to the road maintenance including winter service
  • Educational matters, including those pertaining to the Volkshochschule Linz (adult education centre) and the libraries, with the exception of school matters
  • Matters pertaining the archive
  • Department-specific subsidies amounting to more than 5,000 Euros
City Councillor Mag.a Eva Schobesberger (GRÜNE)

City Councillor Michael Raml (FPÖ)

Responsibilities

  • Matters pertaining to civil defence and disaster relief (except the chairmanship of the civil protection advisory board)
  • Matters pertaining to professional, volunteer and company fire brigades
  • Matters pertaining to the local fire police
  • Monitoring of business hours, closing times and trade and commerce regulations for the hospitality industry
  • Security matters of the city of Linz including the local security police
  • Other administrative police agendas, insofar as they are not assigned to other members of the City Senate
  • Matters pertaining to city partnerships
  • Matters pertaining to health care
  • Department-specific subsidies amounting to more than 5,000 Euros
City Councillor Michael Raml

City Councillor Dietmar Prammer (SPÖ)

Responsibilities

  • Land-use planning, matters pertaining site development 
  • Matters of city building construction
  • Housing matters
  • Real estate matters (including industrial parks) 
  • Lift installations
  • School matters
  • Waste Management matters 
  • Department-specific subsidies amounting to more than 5,000 Euros
City Councillor Dietmar Prammer (SPÖ)

City Councillor Doris Lang-Mayerhofer (ÖVP)

Responsibilities

  • Cultural matters, including the Music School
  • Tourism matters 
  • Matters pertaining to the market sector 
  • Department-specific subsidies amounting to more than 5,000 Euros
City Councillor Doris Lang-Mayerhofer (ÖVP)