Barbara Kappel
Barbara Kappel (born February 16, 1965 in Reith im Alpbachtal ) is an Austrian politician. From 2010 to 2014 she sat for the FPÖ in the Vienna state parliament and local council . She then moved to the European Parliament , initially as a non-attached member, where she was a member of the Europe of Nations and Freedom Group until she left in June 2019 .
Life
Barbara Kappel holds a doctorate in economics after studying economics and social sciences in Innsbruck and Vienna.
From 2000 to 2006 Kappel worked as the office manager of Thomas Prinzhorn and on the side in several agencies that are related to the Federation of Industrialists . From 2006 to 2015 Kappel was managing partner of the consulting company Austrian Technologies . She left the company in October 2015.
In 2010, Kappel part of a Freedom Party campaign in which they as a business and finance minister in the shadow cabinet by Heinz-Christian Strache was presented. March 2010 she was part of the FPÖ list Pro Mittelstand in the Chamber of Commerce elections . After the state and municipal council elections in Vienna in 2010 , where she was placed sixth on the liberal list, she moved into the state parliament. In 2016 and in the course of the formation of the government in 2017, Kappel was again mentioned in the shadow cabinet of ex-FPÖ boss Heinz-Christian Strache as a possible Minister of Economic Affairs.
The weekly newspaper Die Zeit (Austria edition) reported in the autumn of 2011 that Kappel had advertised a water in Eastern Europe whose distribution system brought the newspaper close to a so-called pyramid game ; Kappel, on the other hand, emphasized that he only worked for the company on a voluntary basis in the start-up and product launch phase.
Member of the EU Parliament
According to a ranking by the non-governmental organization VoteWatch Europe from 2019, in which the most influential EU parliamentarians were determined, Kappel was one of the second most influential EU MPs in Austria. Overall, it was ranked 79th out of 751.
In the European Parliament, Kappel was a member of the following committees and delegations:
- Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
- Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee
- Special Committee on Financial Crime, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance (TAX3)
- Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN )
- Delegation for relations with the United States.
She was also an alternate member of the following committees and delegations:
- Budgetary Control Committee
- Budget Committee
- Delegation for relations with the Arabian Peninsula
After the European elections in Austria in 2019 , she left the European Parliament.
Charge of the post haggling
In April 2020, a news history from 2018 and 2019 became known, from which it emerges that the then parliamentary group leader Harald Vilimsky and party leader Heinz-Christian Strache doubted Barbara Kappel's loyalty and would no longer show it in the EU election in May 2019 a promising place on the list.
In order to avoid a scandal, Kappel should voluntarily and publicly renounce her candidacy and in return be immobilized with posts in state-affiliated companies.
Her colleague Johannes Huebner was also later to make the “personal decision” to withdraw from parliament after he called Hans Kelsen , the father of the Austrian constitution, “ Kohn ”. In the 1930s, National Socialists vilified Jewish lawyers with this term.
Kappel is said to have asked for three positions on the supervisory board of OMV , Verbund and ÖBAG as well as, in the medium term, the post of Vice President of the Austrian National Bank . Instead, Strache offered her a management post in the ÖBB , which Kappel refused.
Publications
- Woman in business . In: Anneliese Kitzmüller (Ed.): We are family! The free path to the most family-friendly society . Association for the Promotion of Media Diversity, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502849-4-2 , p. 129-135 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.fpoe-wien.at/index.php?id=1200&maID=1520&cHash=440b2e510820fc74995e951e77878050 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "Our politics is not populist, but pragmatic". In: derStandard.at. May 11, 2011, accessed December 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Barbara Kappel: Strache's wife for the sophisticated. In: derStandard.at. September 7, 2010, accessed December 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Shadow Cabinet: Who comes when blue rules. In: Kurier.com. October 11, 2017, accessed June 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Herwig G. Höller: The mother of the miracle water. In: Die Zeit , October 27, 2011.
- ↑ https://orf.at/stories/3119875/ | In: orf.at , accessed on June 3, 2019.
- ↑ Thomas Walach: ZackZack: Evidence for Postenschacher in Vilimsky, Strache, Blümel. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Chat minutes put ex-FPÖ leaders under pressure. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
- ^ Anti-Semitic allusions from the ranks of the FPÖ. Retrieved April 22, 2022 .
Web links
- Barbara Kappel's website : www.barbarakappel.eu
- Barbara Kappel on the website of the Austrian Parliament
- Entry on Barbara Kappel in the Members' database of the European Parliament
- Barbara Kappel at www.meineabektiven.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kappel, Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the state parliament, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reith im Alpbachtal |