Franz Voves

• 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

Since 1995, Voves has been a member of the board of the SPÖ in Styria. On 2 March 2002, he became president of the SPÖ Styria and on 12 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 25 October 2005, 45 of the 56 members of the Styrian federal state parliament (Landtag) voted him governor of Styria, succeeding Waltraud Klasnic. In June 2015 he was succeeded as governor by Hermann Schützenhöfer.

• Voves Site on the official sites of Styria