Alois Stöger

Who is Alois Stöger?

Alois Stöger is an Austrian politician. Since September 2014, he has served as Minister of Transport and previously as Minister of Health. Stöger is a member of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs and has also served as Minister for Family Affairs and Youth.

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 of Metall-Bergbau-Energie in the district of Gmunden in 1986. He passed the social academy of the Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte 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 Universität in Strasbourg and Linz. In 2000 he finished his studies with the Diplômé des Hautes Etudes des Pratiques Sociales.

Since 1997, Stöger has been a member of the local council of Gallneukirchen and served as an alderman between 2003 and 2008.