Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer expressed his condolences to Haider's family and described him as someone who had shaped Austria's domestic political landscape over decades. Austrian President Heinz Fischer described Haider's death as a human tragedy. He may have been an admirer of Hitler’s employment policies, but he seemed to many rightwingers, frustrated with the Vienna Establishment, to hold the key to a new Austria. Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric in the 1990s was denounced as sympathetic to the Nazis, died early Saturday in a car accident. Jörg Haider was an Austrian right wing politician with many mighty enemies, who died under suspicious circumstances. BERLIN — Jörg Haider, the controversial and charismatic far-right politician who transformed Austrian politics in recent decades, died of injuries sustained in a car accident … See CNN. Jörg Haider was an Austrian politician. Haider's car veered off the road in southern Austria after overtaking another vehicle, and overturned, police said. Haider, 58, the governor of the southern province of Carinthia, had been making a return to national politics with a more moderate line, almost a decade after his party's inclusion in the Austrian government led to European Union sanctions. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved, Get email notification for articles from The Associated Press, After Sexual Assault Allegations, Zaka Founder Relinquishes Israel Prize, After Sexual Assault Allegations Revealed by Haaretz, Zaka Founder Relinquishes Israel Prize. Candles and a photo of Joerg Haider are placed at the site of his fatal car accident in Klagenfurt . After Jörg Haider's death in a car accident on 11 October 2008, the party's executive committee nominated Petzner to succeed as party chairman. Haider enjoyed tremendous popularity in Carinthia and was known by opponents and supporters alike as intelligent and politically savvy. Destroyed: The wreckage of the car of Austrian right-wing politician Joerg Haider, pictured shortly after the tragic accident. “Haider was doing 142 kilometres (88 miles) per hour in a 70kph […] The party's subsequent inclusion in the government led to months of European Union sanctions as Haider's statements were seen as anti-Semitic. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3185247/Jorg-Haider.html Also see: “Austria far-right leader Haider speeding before fatal crash” “VIENNA (AFP) — Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider was driving at more than twice the speed limit after going to a nightclub when he crashed and died this weekend, court officials said Sunday. The controversial Austrian far-right leader Jörg Haider was killed in a car accident today, two weeks after staging a comeback in national elections. Joerg Haider, the veteran leader of Austria's far right, was killed in a car crash today, police said. Jan 5, 2004. While en route to celebrate his mother's 90th birthday. ASTROLOGY CHART JÖRG HAIDER An accident ended his life Joerg Haider, the controversial right wing Austrian politican, has died. The populist Haider was governor of the province of Carinthia and leader of the far-right Alliance for the Future of Austria. He was Governor of Carinthia on two occasions, the long-time leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and later Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (Bündnis Zukunft Österreich, BZÖ), a breakaway party from the FPÖ. Astrodatabank tells us that he was born January 26, 1950 at 14h25 in Bad Goisem. Haider sought to distance himself from his rightist past, which included a comment in 1991 that the Third Reich had an orderly employment policy and a 1995 reference to concentration camps as the punishment camps of National Socialism.