Beate Meinl-Reisinger

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Beate Meinl-Reisinger (2013)

Beate Meinl-Reisinger (born April 25, 1978 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer and politician ( NEOS , formerly ÖVP ). Since June 2018 she has been party leader of the NEOS party - Das Neue Österreich und Liberales Forum .

From 2013 to 2015 Meinl-Reisinger was a member of the Austrian National Council and from 2015 to 2018 a member of the Vienna State Parliament and member of the Vienna City Council , where she was also the club chairwoman of the NEOS state and local council faction in the Vienna City Hall. Beate Meinl-Reisinger has been a member of the National Council again since October 2018. She was the top candidate of her party in the 2019 National Council election in Austria .

education and profession

Beate Reisinger visited the Gymnasium Wasagasse , then studied at the University of Vienna Law and made the Master in European Studies at the Danube University in Krems . At the beginning of her career, she completed the “trainee program for EU academics of the Austrian Economic Chamber”. In this context, she worked for the European Commission and as an assistant to Othmar Karas in the European Parliament .

After the trainee program, she worked as deputy managing director at "Frau in der Wirtschaft", a department of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce . Further stations were the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor and the Federal Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth . Subsequently, she worked as a consultant for women's, family and integration policy in the cabinet of State Secretary Christine Marek (ÖVP). From 2009 she followed this as a political advisor in the ÖVP Vienna .

Political career

After the birth of her second daughter in 2012, she turned her back on the ÖVP and got involved with NEOS , of which she was elected deputy chairman. With NEOS she managed in the national election in 2013 made it into the list at No. 3 National Council . There she acted as chair of the culture committee and was a member of the justice committee, the committee for consumer protection and the family committee.

In February 2015 Meinl-Reisinger was confirmed as the top candidate for the state and municipal council elections in Vienna 2015 on October 11, 2015. On September 24, 2015, half a month before the Vienna elections, Meinl-Reisinger announced in the National Council plenum that she would resign from her National Council mandate before the election, namely on October 9. In the election itself, NEOS, led by Meinl-Reisinger, managed to get 6.16 percent of the vote in the Vienna municipal council and state parliament . Beate Meinl-Reisinger subsequently headed the five-seat club in the Vienna City Hall as a member of the state parliament and municipal council.

At a party congress on June 23, 2018, Beate Meinl-Reisinger was elected to succeed Matthias Strolz as party leader of NEOS with 94.8 percent of the delegate's votes. At the National Council meeting on October 18, 2018, she took over the National Council mandate from Strolz and also heads the NEOS Club in Parliament.

On July 5, 2018, Christoph Wiederkehr was presented as her successor as NEOS Vienna club boss, and on September 27, 2018, he took over the chairmanship of the Vienna City Hall. Her state parliament mandate was also taken over by Thomas Weber on September 27, 2018 .

At a NEOS general meeting in Vienna on July 6, 2019, Meinl-Reisinger was elected the top candidate for the 2019 National Council election in Austria with 96.1 percent of the vote . Your party got 8.1 percent of the vote in the election. On June 19, she was confirmed in office as party leader at a general meeting in Linz with 93 percent of the vote.

During the corona pandemic , Meinl-Reisinger is very much against school closings, as she sees the school as an important social meeting place.

Private life

Beate Meinl-Reisinger is married and has three children.

Memberships

Web links

Commons : Beate Meinl-Reisinger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marie-Theres Egyed: Meinl-Reisinger elected the new Neos boss with 94.8 percent. In: derStandard.at . June 23, 2018. Retrieved June 23, 2018 .
  2. ^ Eva Linsinger: Founding a party: Why the ÖVP is rightly afraid of the Neos. In: profile online . February 11, 2013, accessed July 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Daniela Herger: NEOS top candidate Beate Meinl-Reisinger in an interview on the NR election. In: Vienna Online. August 30, 2013. Retrieved July 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Which Neos move into the National Council. In: derStandard.at . September 30, 2013. Retrieved July 9, 2018 .
  5. ^ Vienna election: Meinl-Reisinger confirmed as Neos top candidate. In: derStandard.at . February 28, 2015, accessed July 9, 2018 .
  6. ^ National Council: Meinl-Reisinger resigns from mandate. In: DiePresse.com . September 24, 2015, accessed July 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Return of the new NEOS Vienna club boss. In: orf.at. July 5, 2018, accessed July 9, 2018 .
  8. ↑ NEOS Vienna bring anti-corruption package to Vienna City Council . OTS announcement of September 24, 2018, accessed on September 24, 2018.
  9. ↑ Summary of the 42nd Vienna City Council of September 27, 2018 . OTS announcement of September 27, 2018, accessed on September 28, 2018.
  10. ↑ Meinl-Reisinger named NEOS top candidate Salzburger Nachrichten, July 6, 2019
  11. ^ NEOS general meeting: Beate Meinl-Reisinger re-elected as chairwoman with 93% of the votes. OTS , June 19, 2021, accessed on the same day.
  12. ↑ ORF at red: Meinl-Reisinger: “Preventive measures instead of closing schools”. December 22, 2020, accessed January 11, 2021 .
  13. ↑ ÖVP internal database, accessed on August 9, 2015 (entry: March 18, 2010, member until: September 13, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Meinl-Reisinger, Beate
SHORT DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (NEOS), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna