Barbara Schöfnagel

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Barbara-Wiebke Schöfnagel (born September 27, 1948 in Vienna ) was FPÖ councilor for the city of Vienna from 1991 to 2005 and a member of the Vienna state parliament .

She was attachée for social affairs in Bulgaria since 2007 , in 2005 attachée for social affairs in Romania on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Social Affairs, Labor and Consumer Protection (BMASK for short).

Life

Schöfnagel grew up in Vienna as the daughter of the entrepreneurial couple Walter and Luise-Margarete Mückstein. After graduating from school, she prepared for work in her parents' company. She used a financial year in Düsseldorf for this purpose. She worked in the accounting and human resources department of the family business. During this period, she attended additional training courses and obtained degrees in payroll accounting and office management. In addition, she trained as a dental assistant and practiced this profession from 1967 to 1973. After her marriage, she devoted herself primarily to raising her four children. At the same time, she was involved in voluntary work and took the opportunity to take part in further training courses that broadened the basis of her voluntary work (language courses, rhetoric seminars, tour guide seminars, dance instructor courses). She used the skills she acquired as the head of youth and nationality work in the Liesing gymnastics club and within the Austrian Gymnastics Federation in Vienna. The organization and management of numerous youth camps within the association were part of their activities.

In 1974, Schöfnagel and her husband founded the folk dance group Schönbrunn and a choir as part of the ÖTB Vienna. Her membership until 2005 and the mandate in the Vienna Landtag for the FPÖ was the reason to associate her with right-wing extremist actions by members of this party. However, proof of this does not go beyond an application to investigate the facts. Although she was invited to an event organized by the Dichterstein Offenhausen association , she did not take part. The allegations presented in an article in the Kurier by City School Council President Kurt Scholz were withdrawn after an objection by the Mayor of Vienna Helmut Zilk (SPÖ) and a personal conversation with Schöfnagel.

The focus of Schöfnagel's work is in the social field. She traveled to the Eastern Bloc early on and realized that there was a wide field for social activity there. Her first trip took her to Romania in 1970 after severe floods had caused great damage there. She acquired driving licenses in several categories in order to be able to get involved in aid transports and was looking for a way of ensuring the control and legal protection of her aid operations within the framework of an association. Within the Austrian Landsmannschaft (ÖLM) she founded the “Transylvania Working Group”. She campaigned for socially and ethnically disadvantaged population groups in the states of the former Eastern Bloc, with the support of German ethnic groups being a focus. The background to this mission was that the ethnic minorities in the communist states were not granted minority protection rights.

Schöfnagel retired on November 30, 2010. Since December 1, 2010, she has continued to work as an honorary social attachée at the Austrian Embassy in Romania and leads projects with a social focus in order to ensure the sustainability of social support and support from the Austrian Embassy in Bucharest .

honors and awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bmeia.gv.at/botschaft/bukarest/volltextsuche.html
  2. ^ Kurier, December 22, 1991
  3. ↑ Woman of the year district journal / special - special no. 1, free sheet of Mediaprint (daughter of Krone and Kurier ) 1992, p. 4, publication discontinued on October 27, 2010
  4. ↑ Woman of the year district journal / special - special no. 1, free sheet of Mediaprint (daughter of Krone and Kurier ) 1992, p. 4, publication discontinued on October 27, 2010
  5. ↑ Howadt, Walter: The angel of Sibiu NFZ No. 13, March 25, 1995, pp 7-9.
  6. ↑ Baier, Hannelore: Equipment arrived with four wagons. Bärbel Wiebke Schöfnagel was awarded honorary membership of the Transylvania Forum. Neuer Weg No. 19 February 1992, p. 1, since 1995 Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung (ADZ), Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (ed.)
  7. ^ NFZ November 25, 2004, p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Schöfnagel, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schöfnagel, Barbara-Wiebke (full name); Schöfnagel, Bärbel (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ, BZÖ)
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna