Christine Marek

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Christine Marek (2015)

Christine Marek (born January 26, 1968 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor in the Gusenbauer government from January 11, 2007 to November 26, 2010 . She worked in the federal government Faymann I as State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, from March 13, 2010 to September 9, 2011 the first state party spokeswoman and was the top candidate of the Vienna ÖVP for the municipal council election on October 10, 2010. She is deputy chairwoman of the supervisory board of the federal real estate company .

biography

Christine Marek was born in 1968 as an Austrian citizen in Kempten (Allgäu) . At the age of six years, moved their family to Eferding in Upper Austria . After secondary school, she attended the federal college for economic professions in Linz , where she graduated in 1987. She then worked in various commercial professions in Germany and abroad. She has lived in Vienna since 1991.

In the mid-1990s, Marek began working for the ÖVP in the Meidling district of Vienna and as a works councilor. In 2000 Christine Marek became a member of the Chamber of Labor of the Vienna Chamber of Labor , and from 2002 to 2004 she was a member of the Chamber's Board of Directors.

In June 2002 she became deputy state party leader of the Vienna People's Party. In the National Council election in November of the same year, she was elected to the National Council. Since January 2007 she has been State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

In the course of the election campaign for the state and municipal council elections in Vienna in 2010 , she expressed herself positively about a possible work obligation for the long-term unemployed and advocated a burqa ban . During this election campaign, Vienna's Archbishop Christoph Schönborn and Caritas Director Michael Landau opposed them. Compared to the municipal council elections in 2005, Marek's party lost more than a third of the votes. and - for the first time since 1946 - the majority in the bourgeois district of Wieden . On November 7, 2010, she announced that she wanted to leave the federal government after the constituent meeting of the Vienna City Council at the end of November.

Due to the lack of support from party members in the Vienna ÖVP, Christine Marek resigned from the party chairmanship on September 9, 2011. On September 20, 2011, she took over the mandate in the National Council that had become vacant through Maria Rauch-Kallat , to which she had already been a member. In the 2013 National Council election, Marek declined to run and switched to the private sector.

Marek is the mother of one son. She is a member of the Koinonia Wien student union in the VCS .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Rainer Nowak: "Christine Marek: The black misunderstanding", Die Presse from September 19, 2010, online http://diepresse.com/home/politik/wienwahl/595494/index.do?from=simarchiv
  2. ^ Vienna municipal council election 2010. In: orf.at , accessed on November 21, 2017.
  3. ↑ District elections: Wieden will be red, Josefstadt will be black. In: DiePresse.com. October 11, 2010, accessed August 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Maria Kern: Marek leaves the government. In: Courier . November 7, 2010, archived from the original on November 9, 2010 ; accessed on October 8, 2019 (original website no longer available).
  5. ↑ Marek resigns as head of the Vienna ÖVP - change to the National Council
  6. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Marek, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten (Allgäu)