Markus Vogl

Markus Vogl (born 27 November 1970) is an Austrian politician and former member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Traunviertel from October 2013 to January 2021.

Vogl was born on 27 November 1970 in Steyr. His early education was at boarding school as his mother was a single parent and a shift worker at Steyr plants. He worked for MAN Truck & Bus from 1991 to 2010 designing driver's cabs. He joined the works council at MAN in 2000 and served as its chairman from 2010 to 2019. He has been a member of the presidium of the Union of Private Sector Employees, Printing, Journalism, and Paper (GPA-DJP) since 2014 and chairman of the union's Upper Austrian branch since 2015. He has been a member of the board of the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB) since 2015. He has held various positions in the Gleink and Steyr branches of the Social Democratic Party (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.