Alois St�ger is an Austrian politician. Since September 2014, he has served as Minister of Transport and previously as Minister of Health. St�ger is a member of the Sozialdemokratische Partei �sterreichs and has also served as Minister for Family Affairs and Youth. St�ger 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 f�r Arbeiter und Angestellte between 1986 and 1987 and completed training as a supervisor in 1982. St�ger also trained at the European Trade Union Academy and studied social practice at the Marc Bloch Universit�t in Strasbourg and Linz. In 2000 he finished his studies with the Dipl�m� des Hautes Etudes des Pratiques Sociales. Since 1997, St�ger has been a member of the local council of Gallneukirchen and served as an alderman between 2003 and 2008. [More at Wikipedia]

September 3rd, 1960 in Linz (Age 64)