Beatrix Karl

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Beatrix Karl (born December 10, 1967 in Graz ) is an Austrian legal scholar , politician ( ÖVP ) and former Minister of Science (2010–2011) and Minister of Justice (2011–2013). From 2006 to 2010 and from 2013 to 2017 she was a member of the National Council .

Life

Beatrix Karl grew up as the first of three children in Bad Gleichenberg , East Styria , where she also attended elementary school (1974–1978) and secondary school (1978–1982). Her father Volker Karl was mayor of Gleichenberg and her brother Michael Karl is currently on the local council. In 1986 she graduated with distinction at the Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium Feldbach . From 1986 to 1991 she studied law at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz , in 1991 she became a university assistant at the Institute for Labor Law and Social Law in Graz. She completed her doctoral studies in 1995 with excellent results. For her dissertation , she was awarded the Science Prize of the Chamber of Labor Upper Austria . From 1999 to 2002 she was an APART scholarship holder of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law in Munich .

In 2001 Karl was appointed assistant professor , in 2003 she obtained the Venia for labor law, social law and European law and became an associate professor in Graz.

Beatrix Karl lives in Graz.

Functions

From January 1, 2005 to January 28, 2007 Beatrix Karl was a member of the European Committee for Social Rights of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . Since October 1, 2017, she has been Vice Rector at the University of Education in Styria .

Beatrix Karl is a competent honorary judge in labor and social court proceedings at the Regional Court for Civil Law Matters in Graz and a lecturer at the Medical University of Graz as part of the university course in Public Health .

She is a member of the European Institute of Social Security in Leuven ( Belgium ), the Society for European Social Policy in Bonn , the Graz Legal Society and the Austrian Society for Labor Law and Social Law.

She is also the deputy chairman of the Dr. Karl Kummer Institute for Social Reform, Social and Economic Policy in Graz.

Since autumn 2009 she has been chairwoman of the Styrian Association of Academics.

In February 2018 she was appointed government commissioner for the 2020 world exhibition in Dubai.

Scientific work

Beatrix Karl has published around 100 papers on numerous issues of Austrian, German and European labor and social law, including the relationship between social security and European competition law, the future of social union within the EU and the right to dismiss.

Political career

In 2005 Beatrix Karl ran for the ÖVP in the Styrian state elections , but failed to make it because of the surprisingly poor result.

In the 2006 National Council election , she moved into the National Council as a “ lateral entrant ” for the ÖVP via the federal list . The decision of the ÖVP chairman, Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel , to place her as the seventh member of the federal election proposal, should go back to the Styrian state party chairman Hermann Schützenhöfer and was especially intended as a signal to younger, urban voters and women.

After the National Council elections in 2008, Karl moved back into the Austrian National Council, where he also acted as the ÖVP's science spokesperson. On July 20, Beatrix Karl was appointed by ÖAAB Federal Minister Michael Spindelegger as Secretary General of the ÖAAB - the ÖVP-affiliated workers' association. There she wanted to position the ÖVP sub-organization, which had previously been reduced to a civil service representative, as a new, modern representation for all employees.

On January 26, 2010 she was sworn in as the successor to Johannes Hahn , the designated EU Commissioner for Regional Policy in the Barroso II Commission , in the Federal Government of Faymann I as Federal Minister for Science and Research .

In the course of the government reshuffle after Josef Pröll's resignation in April 2011, she was appointed Minister of Justice and sworn in on April 21, 2011. The term of office of the Faymann I cabinet ended on December 16, 2013 with the appointment of the federal government Faymann II , of which Karl was no longer a member.

criticism

Her planned austerity measures in the university sector brought her into the crossfire of criticism: Both the Austrian Students' Union (ÖH) and the University Conference (uniko) condemned this approach and accused the minister of not even wanting to meet her own goals. The announcement in November 2010 that it would no longer support non-university research institutes, including international flagships such as the Erwin Schrödinger Institute , whose importance she herself had highlighted in a press release shortly before, triggered a wave of bitter criticism from national and international top researchers (including Fields Medals -Winners and Nobel Prize Laureates ).

After a 14-year-old boy was raped in custody in 2013, she said about the incident: “Detention is not paradise, but the conditions have never been better” and “we are talking about teenagers who have committed a serious crime, otherwise they would be she has not been taken into custody ”. In response to severe criticism, because she thereby disregarded the presumption of innocence and also made such incidents less noteworthy when they happened to convicted prisoners, Karl was publicly and heavily criticized. A few days later she gave in that the young person “should never have been locked in this cell” and announced the establishment of a task force to examine alternatives to detention for young people.

Awards

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  1. Steirischer Akademikerbund: Landesvorstand ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 10, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ab-stmk.at
  2. ^ DerStandard.at: Karl elected commissioner for the world exhibition in Dubai . Article dated February 14, 2018, accessed February 14, 2018.
  3. http://DerStandard.at/1288659993405/Acht-Gruende-warum-das-Erwin-Schroedinger-Institut-echt-entbehrlich-ist
  4. http://diepresse.com/home/panorama/1423407/Vergewaltigt-im-Gefaengnis_Vorerst-keine-Entschaedigung http://diepresse.com , June 27, 2013
  5. Minister of Justice provokes an uprising , online on Humanistic Press Service from June 28, 2013. Minister shifts responsibility . Humanistic press service of July 1, 2013.
  6. State of Styria: Great Gold Medals and Great Decorations with the Star awarded . Article dated November 29, 2018, accessed November 30, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Beatrix Karl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files