Beate Hartinger-Klein

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Beate Hartinger-Klein (2017)

Beate Hartinger-Klein (born September 9, 1959 in Graz as Beate Hartinger ) is an Austrian manager and politician ( FPÖ ). From 1999 to 2002 she was a member of the National Council . From January 2018 to May 22, 2019 she was Federal Minister for Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection of the Republic of Austria .

education and profession

Beate Hartinger attended elementary school from 1966 to 1970 and then a secondary school. In 1974 she switched to the commercial academy. After graduating from high school in 1979, Hartinger studied social and economic sciences at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz . In 1984 she completed her studies with the academic degree Mag. Rer. soc. oec. from.

From 1984 to 1985 she worked as a tax consultant and in 1986 she worked as an organizer for Kastner & Öhler . She then moved to Steiermärkische Krankenanstalten GmbH, where she was Head of Internal Audit until 1990 and was promoted to Head of Controlling in 1990. Hartinger also worked as a university lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics , the University of Vienna and the Karl-Franzens University in Graz.

From August 2003 to March 2009, Beate Hartinger was a member of the management and association management of the Main Association of Austrian Social Insurance Institutions as Managing Director and from 2005 Deputy General Director . Her area of ​​activity included the contractual relationships of social insurance with doctors, pharmacies, drug manufacturers, international affairs and social insurance contracts, service law, training and self-administration. On April 1, 2009, she moved to Deloitte Austria. She worked for this company as managing director in the healthcare consulting sector.

From April 2011 to December 2017 she was self-employed.

On October 10, 2013 she received the Ring of Honor of the Austrian Social Insurance, the highest award that the Austrian Social Insurance has to bestow.

In 2015 she applied for the vacant position of General Director of AUVA , which Helmut Köberl received. A complaint to the Equal Treatment Commission did not change anything about Köberl's appointment. She withdrew her lawsuit against AUVA after she was sworn in as minister in January 2018.

Political career

Hartinger-Klein was a member of the Styrian State Parliament from 1996 to 1999 and a member of the Styrian Hospital Fund (SKAFF) from 1999. She represented the FPÖ in the National Council between October 29, 1999 and December 19, 2002. From December 2017 it belonged to the federal government short-I to. She was appointed Federal Minister for Labor, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection and was entrusted with the management of the Federal Ministry for Health and Women until the new Federal Ministries Act came into force. Between January 8, 2018 and May 22, 2019 she heads the Federal Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection.

In July 2018, Hartinger-Klein advertised the twelve-hour working day in a national council debate with a quote supposedly from Karl Marx :

“To conclude, ladies and gentlemen from the Social Democrats: It was a very famous man who once said the following: 'Freedom is a luxury that not everyone can afford.' - Do you know who that was? You should know. It was Karl Marx. And I say: With this flexibilisation of working hours from September 1st, this freedom is possible for every man and every woman. "

The quote actually comes from Otto von Bismarck .

Political positions

Minimum income

Hartinger-Klein advocated a reduction in the minimum income in 2018 , in a television interview she stated that you could live on 150 euros a month if you got the apartment financed. For this statement, Hartinger-Klein was criticized by opposition politicians.

Smoking ban in restaurants

As a former health minister, Hartinger-Klein opposed a general ban on smoking in restaurants. As an argument she put forward: A smoking ban would "forbid the innkeepers to be hospitality." Guests should not be reprimanded for "minor weaknesses". Hartinger-Klein also spoke out against a referendum on the topic of smoking bans in pubs.

Dissolution of the General Accident Insurance Fund

As Minister of Health, Hartinger-Klein was also responsible for the reforms at the social insurance institutions. In the government program of the ÖVP and FPÖ , it was stipulated that the General Accident Insurance Fund (AUVA) would have to present a concept to save 500 million euros by the end of 2018. These savings are necessary because the accident insurance contribution to be paid by the company is to be reduced from 1.3 to 0.8 percent. If the AUVA does not manage to present a savings plan of this size by the end of 2018, it should be dissolved and transferred to other social security agencies.

As early as April 2018, Hartinger-Klein announced that it did not assume that AUVA would continue to exist. Hartinger-Klein himself applied for the post of AUVA General Director in 2015, but was not accepted.

After the announcement by the Minister of Health, the AUVA staff gathered in the Lorenz Böhler Accident Hospital in Vienna to protest against the dissolution of the institution.

Web links

Commons : Beate Hartinger-Klein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Social Insurance Institution of Farmers ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Main association NEW is now complete.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.svb.at
  2. Appendix to the rules of procedure of the association board. Announcement at www.avsv.at No. 30/2005.
  3. Press release from January 21, 2009: Deputy General Director Beate Hartinger decides to take on new challenges.
  4. Press release from Deloitte Austria of January 21, 2009.
  5. Life and social counseling, business consulting http://www.gfb.or.at/index.php?id=46&lösungenId=148
  6. Hartinger on AUVA on PressReader.com from April 7, 2018, accessed on April 8, 2018
  7. orf.at: Strache defends Hartinger-Klein . Article dated April 8, 2018, accessed April 8, 2018.
  8. Amendment of the Federal Ministries Act (for entry into force, see Section 17b, Paragraph 28, Item 1).
  9. ^ National Council, XXVI. GP, July 5, 2018, 36th meeting, Federal Minister for Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection Mag.Beate Hartinger-Klein , p. 6 (parlament.gv.at)
  10. Kurt Palm : Karl Marx and the twelve-hour day Der Standard , July 13, 2018.
  11. https://www.kleinezeitung.at/politik/innenpolitik/5470505/Stimmen-Sie-ab_Kann-man-wie-die-Ministerin-sagt-von-150-Euro-im , Kurier, July 27, 2018
  12. Parliamentary Correspondence No. 169 of February 28, 2018
  13. https://diepresse.com/home/innenpolitik/5380137/Ministerin_Rauchverbote-grauslich , Die Presse, February 28, 2018
  14. Hartinger-Klein assumes that the AUVA will be dissolved . In: news.ORF.at . April 5, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed April 24, 2018]).
  15. STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Employees protest against turquoise-blue savings plans . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed April 24, 2018]).