Dana Reizniece-Ozola

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Dana Reizniece-Ozola
Dana Reizniece-Ozola, Porto Carras 2011
Association LatviaLatvia Latvia
Born November 6, 1981
Kuldīga
title International Master of Women (1999)
Grand Master of Women (2001)
Current  Elo rating 2279 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2355 (January 1999)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Dana Reizniece-Ozola (born November 6, 1981 in Kuldīga as Dana Reizniece) is a Latvian politician and grandmaster in chess . From November 2014 to February 2016 she was Minister of Economic Affairs and from February 2016 to January 2019 Finance Minister of her country.

Life

Dana Reizniece was born to an accountant and a driver. She attended middle school and high school in her hometown and studied translation science and terminological logic / terminology of computer science at Ventspils Augstskola (Ventspils University). After completing her studies in Ventspils , Dana Reizniece first managed the technology park of the Ventspils Business Incubator . She was u. a. entrusted to market the knowledge of Latvian engineers who had previously worked for Soviet space technology. A small satellite for navigating ships was developed in cooperation with the University of Bremen.

Political career

Dana Reizniece-Ozola (2019)

The Mayor of Ventspils, Aivars Lembergs , won Dana Reizniece for politics. As a member of the regional party “For Ventspils and Latvia” ( Latvijai un Ventspilij ), she was elected to the Latvian Parliament in 2010 for the Alliance of Greens and Peasants and in 2011 she was re-elected. In 2010/2011 she was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport.

She was re-elected in the 2014 parliamentary elections , but resigned her mandate following her appointment to the government. From November 2014 to February 2016 she was Minister of Economic Affairs in the Straujuma II cabinet . In this function, she operated the liberalization of the Latvian gas market, which until then had been dominated by the Russian state company Gazprom . Since then she has been finance minister in the new cabinet of Māris Kučinskis . She named the areas of education, defense and health as priorities of her budget policy. More energetic than its predecessors, it took action against Latvian banks, which are used for money laundering - especially by Russian customers .

In the 2018 elections , she was re-elected to the Saeima as the top candidate of the Alliance of Greens and Peasants in the Riga constituency (list 16) and then joined Latvijas Zemnieku savienība , one of the two larger parties in the electoral alliance. After her party did not participate in the new government, she stayed as a member of parliament.

Private

Dana Reizniece married Andris Ozols in 2011; since then she has had the double name. Her husband has been the director of Latvijas Investīciju un attīstības aģentūra (LIAA), the Latvian State Agency for Investment and Development, since 2004. Reizniece-Ozola is a mother of four and resigned her parliamentary mandate several times due to pregnancy and maternity leave . In spite of her political tasks she justifies her chess competition engagement in the meeting with Zeit - reporter Ulrich Stock as follows: “It allows one to disengage from the real world. When you play, nothing else matters. You are completely in. It is the best meditation . "

Success in chess

During her school days in Kuldīga, Dana Reizniece became interested in chess at the age of eight. As an 11-year-old, she competed in a tournament outside of the former Soviet Union (in Duisburg). She became a Latvian chess master for the first time when she was 15. In 1998 and 1999 she won the European Youth Championships in the U18 female age group and in 2002 the women's competition at the Paul Keres Memory Tournament in Tallinn . At the World Youth Championships she reached second place in the U14 female age group in 1995 and second place in the U18 female age group in 1998. Since 2001 she has been the Grand Master of Women (WGM).

National team

Dana Reizniece has taken part in eight women's chess Olympiads since 1998 ( 1998 , 2000 , 2004 , 2006 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 and 2016 ), as well as four women's European team championships (1999, 2001, 2011 and 2015). She played on the top board of the Latvian women's team at all of these events. At the 2016 Women's Chess Olympiad, she defeated world chess champion Hou Yifan .

societies

In Germany , Dana Reizniece has been playing with SG 1871 Löberitz in the Oberliga Ost and in the 2nd Bundesliga since 2004 . From 2007 to 2011 she also played in the women's Bundesliga as a guest player at SC Leipzig-Gohlis . Since 2018, Reizniece-Ozola has also been playing in Sweden for the Stockholm club Wasa SK.

Fonts

  • with Janis Sīlis, Ilze Ilziņa, Juris Borzovs: To Use or not to Use Metaphors in Latvian ICT Terminology . In: Pabaltijo tautu terminologijos problemos ir Europos Sajunga . Lietuvju Kalbos Instituto Leidykla, Vilnius 2006, ISBN 9986-66894-8 , pp. 108-121.

Web links

Commons : Dana Reizniece-Ozola  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ News from February 17, 2016 on delfi.lv (Latvian)
  2. ↑ a b Florian Hassel: The chess player. Latvia still feels the influence of Russia. Finance Minister Dana Reizniece-Ozola is now tackling the fight against money laundering. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 30, 2016, p. 18.
  3. ↑ Finanšu ministre Dana Reizniece-Ozola , accessed on January 6, 2017.
  4. ↑ dailycaller.com (accessed December 7, 2018)
  5. ↑ a b Ulrich Stock: The chess queen of Riga . In: Die Zeit , November 3, 2016, p. 32.
  6. ↑ a b Sebastian Balzter: Latvia fights against tax fraud and money laundering. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 7, 2017, p. 18.
  7. ↑ List of elected representatives , accessed on October 8, 2018.
  8. ↑ Reizniece-Ozola pievienojas Latvijas Zemnieku savienībai delfi.lv, accessed on December 7, 2018
  9. ↑ Kasjauns.lv ( Memento of March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 27, 2014.
  10. ↑ Andris Ozols on eib.liaa.gov.lv (Latvian)
  11. ↑ Deputātei Danai Reizniece-Ozolai piedzimis ceturtais bērns , kasjauns.lv, January 31, 2013 (on the occasion of the birth of the fourth child), accessed on July 20, 2018 (Latvian).
  12. ↑ Dana Reizniece-Ozola's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  13. ↑ Dana Reizniece-Ozolas results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  14. ↑ Dana Reizniece-Ozola vs Yifan Hou , on chessgames.com, accessed December 22, 2017.
  15. ↑ Old DWZ index card from Dana Reizniece-Ozola at the German Chess Federation
personal data
SURNAME Reizniece-Ozola, Dana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reizniece, Dana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian chess player and politician, member of the Saeima
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuldīga , Latvian SSR