Bettina Rausch

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Bettina Rausch (2018)

Bettina Rausch (born December 25, 1979 in Scheibbs ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). Rausch was a member of the Federal Council for Lower Austria from 2008 to 2013 and a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament from 2013 to 2018 . Since 2018 she has been President of the Political Academy of the People's Party.

education and profession

Rausch attended elementary school in Krummnussbaum from 1985 to 1989 and, from 1989, the Melk Abbey High School . After graduating from high school in 1997, she completed a tourism college at the European Business Schools in Vienna by 1999 and studied law, journalism and communication science as well as political science at the University of Vienna from 2003 to 2009 . Rausch completed her studies in 2009 with the academic degree Mag. Phil. from. In 2014 she completed her training as a certified hospital business administrator / academic health care manager and in 2019 with the academic degree of MBA at the WU Executive Academy in Vienna.

Rausch worked professionally between 1999 and 2000 as a travel agency employee, before working as a parliamentary assistant for MEP Ursula Stenzel between 2000 and 2003 . Subsequently, she worked in project management at the Junge Akademie Lower Austria from 2003 to 2004 and then from 2005 to 2007 in sales and product management for online marketing at both the Vorarlberger Medienhaus (Vienna location) and Tourismus Technologie GmbH (Krems location). From 2011 to 2018, Bettina Rausch was an employee of the Niederösterreichische Landeskliniken-Holding, most recently as head of the organizational development department.

In addition, Bettina Rausch has been working regularly as a freelance trainer, moderator and process facilitator since 2001, v. a. in the political and non-profit environment. For this purpose, 2013/14 u. a. attended the School of Facilitating (Berlin / Vienna) and completed training as a facilitator. Since 2017 she has also been working as an external lecturer in the Business Department at the IMC University of Applied Sciences in Krems.

politics

Rausch had been a member of the regional presidium of the Young People's Party (JVP) in Lower Austria since 2001 and from 2004 to 2013 regional chairwoman of the JVP Lower Austria and from 2009 to 2014 Sebastian Kurz's federal deputy in the federal leadership of the young ÖVP. From 2004 to 2013 she was also a member of the regional party executive of the ÖVP Lower Austria . In the state elections in Lower Austria in 2008 , she received 2,441 preferential votes. Rausch finished ninth among all candidates. After the state election, Rausch was sent by the state parliament to the Federal Council, of which she was a member from April 10, 2008. In the state elections on March 3, 2013 she received 3,118 votes and was sworn in as a member of the Lower Austria state parliament on April 24, 2013. She was u. a. Education spokeswoman for her group. After the state elections in Lower Austria in 2018 , she left the state parliament.

From 2014 Bettina Rausch was together with Sebastian Kurz, Elisabeth Köstinger and Harald Mahrer in the Presidium of the Political Academy of the ÖVP and took care of v. a. about the education and youth work. In April 2018, she succeeded Sebastian Kurz as President of the Political Academy of the People's Party and wants to position the Political Academy with three focal points: innovation and excellence in political education, the People's Party's values ​​center and the hub for the further opening of the People's Party.

In May 2015 Bettina Rausch became deputy. State chairman elected by Wolfgang Sobotka in the NÖAAB (Lower Austrian Workers' Association). Rausch also has honorary functions and a. as deputy State chairwoman of the Lower Austrian Education and Home Office (BHW Lower Austria), as President of Club35 of the Young ÖVP, as well as on the board of the NöART association and the EMMAUS community St. Pölten

Publications

  • as editor together with Karl Nehammer : Open for new things - analyzes and assessments of the first year of the new people's party , Verlag Noir, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-9504382-2-2
  • as editor together with Andreas Khol, Stefan Karner, Wolfgang Sobotka, Bettina Rausch, Günther Ofner and Dietmar Halper: Jahrbuch für Politik 2018 , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3205232186
  • as editor together with Andreas Khol, Stefan Karner, Wolfgang Sobotka, Bettina Rausch, Günther Ofner and Dietmar Halper: Jahrbuch für Politik 2019 , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3205209973
  • as editor together with Simon Varga: Christian-social signatures. Basics of a political debate , Verlag Noir, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-9504382-5-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Political Academy - Rethinking Politics. Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
  2. ^ Province of Lower Austria election result 2010
  3. orf.at: Kurz hands over ÖVP academy management to Bettina Rausch . Article dated March 12, 2018, accessed March 12, 2018.

Web links

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