Bernadette Mennel
Bernadette Mennel (born September 26, 1959 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and teacher at a commercial academy . Mennel was a member of the Vorarlberg state government from 2012 to 2018 as a regional councilor and previously a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 1999 to 2012 , where she acted as second vice- president from 2004 to 2009 and as state parliament president from 2009 to 2012 . The doctor of law lives in Bregenz and is married.
Live and act
Bernadette Mennel was born on September 26, 1959 as the daughter of Josef and Adeline Mennel in the Vorarlberg state capital Bregenz. She first attended the elementary school Rieden and the private high school Sacré Coeur Riedenburg in Bregenz. After graduating from high school in 1979, she began studying law at the University of Innsbruck , where she was finally awarded a doctorate in law in 1984 . She then taught at the Bludenz Tourism School before becoming a teacher for political education and law at the Bregenz Commercial Academy .
During her time as a member of the state parliament, Mennel was a member of the Parliamentary Conference on Lake Constance and from 1999 to 2009 a member of the International Lake Constance Council. In the state elections on September 19, 1999 , Bernadette Mennel was elected to the Vorarlberg state parliament for the ÖVP Vorarlberg for the first time and was sworn in as a member on October 5. On April 2, 2000, Mennel also became a member of the city council in her home town of Bregenz .
After the state elections in 2004 , she was elected by the members of the 28th Vorarlberg state parliament on October 5, 2004 as the second vice-president of the state parliament. After Gebhard Halder left the state parliament after the state elections in Vorarlberg in 2009 , the former Vice-President Mennel was elected President of the state parliament. In addition, until she left the state parliament she was the European spokesperson within the ÖVP state parliament club and at the same time chairperson of the European committee. As a result of the municipal council and mayoral elections in Vorarlberg in 2010 , Mennel stepped down in the Bregenz city council and became a substitute member of the city council.
After Regional Councilor Siegmund Stemer resigned in November 2012 , Bernadette Mennel was elected by the State Parliament as its successor on November 14, 2012. She took over the departments of education, schools, kindergartens, sports and legislation. After the state elections in 2014, she was also responsible for science and further education. In addition, in her role as regional councilor for education, she was also the acting president of the regional school council for Vorarlberg. She was also the chairwoman of the University Council of the Vorarlberg University of Education . On January 8, 2018, Bernadette Mennel announced her resignation from all political offices on January 30, 2018. In the state parliament session on January 31, 2018, Barbara Schöbi-Fink was elected as her successor in the state government. After retiring from active politics, Mennel returned to her traditional profession as a teacher and taught law at the HLW Marienberg and the HLW Rankweil .
As a politician, Bernadette Mennel was among other things the initiator of the project “Women in technical future professions” and the patron of the “Tischlein deck dich” campaign - food distribution for the needy and patron of the START Vorarlberg project - scholarships for committed schoolchildren with a migration background .
Web links
- Biography of Bernadette Mennel in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.
Individual evidence
- ^ Mennel sworn in as state councilor. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . November 14, 2012, accessed January 8, 2018 .
- ^ Regional Councilor Mennel resigns from office. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . January 8, 2018, accessed January 8, 2018 .
- ^ Klaus Hämmerle: Return to the table and the break bell. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten . November 30, 2018, accessed February 13, 2019 .
President of the Landtag: Ilg (1945) | Feuerstein (1949) | Titian (1964) | Purtscher (1974) | Hunter (1987) | Gasser (1994) | Dörler (1999) | Halder (2004) | Mennel (2009) | Nussbaumer (2012) | Sonderegger (2014)
1st Vice President of the State Parliament: Feuerstein (1945) | Amann (1949) | Peter (1964) | Heinzle (1969) | Berchtold (1984) | Gehrer (1989) | Aberer (1990) | Bernhard (1991) | Lampert (1994) | Amann (1999) | Nussbaumer (2004) | Knight (2012) | Hagen (2014) | Vonier (2019)
2nd Vice President of the State Parliament: Bertsch (1945) | Gohm (1949) | Moosbrugger (1954) | Heinzle (1964) | Peter (1969) | Steurer (1970) | Engraver (1976) | Falschlunger (1979) | Keckeis (1993) | Schuler (1994) | Lampert (1999) | Halder (2003) | Mennel (2004) | Hagen (2009) | Nussbaumer (2014) | Rüscher (2018) | Schoch (2019)
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| SURNAME | Mennel, Bernadette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician (ÖVP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bregenz |