Claudia Schmidt (politician)

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Claudia Schmidt (born April 26, 1963 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and a member of the European Parliament from July 2014 to 2019 .

Study and job

After graduating, she worked at Salzburger Lebenshilfe , initially as a curative education director, then she was entrusted with setting up the advocacy for the disabled within Lebenshilfe. Before moving full-time into local politics, she worked in Lebenshilfe as a department head for organization and administration.

politics

Schmidt has been a member of the Salzburg municipal council since 1999 and was elected chairwoman of the ÖVP municipal council club in 2004. In the course of the municipal council elections that were successful for the ÖVP in 2009, she became city councilor for the city of Salzburg. During her five-year term of office, the city's construction department implemented various large-scale projects, the new construction of the AYA pool in Alpenstrasse, the construction of a new Salzach bridge, the introduction of new technologies for urban lighting and traffic light control and the successful implementation of a previously hotly discussed traffic control in downtown. In spring 2014, Schmidt was nominated as the “West candidate” for the EU election on May 25, 2014 with the support of Governors Wilfried Haslauer junior (Salzburg), Markus Wallner (Vorarlberg) and Günther Platter (Tyrol) Federal Party Executive of the Austrian People's Party on the promising 4th place on the list. With the start of the 8th legislative period , Schmidt became a member of the European Parliament from July 2014.

It came under criticism, also from politicians of her own party, in August 2018 after a publication on a social network in which she called “massive and arbitrary immigration from regions foreign to culture” a “great threat to our society”. She apologized for her comment, which she deeply regrets.

After the European elections in Austria in 2019 , she left the European Parliament.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Preuner introduces the new ÖVP team. Salzburg24, March 4, 2009, accessed May 27, 2014 .
  2. ^ ÖVP City Councilor Claudia Schmidt runs for EU elections. Salzburger Nachrichten , February 20, 2014, accessed on May 27, 2014 .
  3. ↑ EU candidate list. Die Presse , February 28, 2014, accessed May 27, 2014 .
  4. ↑ 2014 European elections, preliminary overall result including postal votes. BM.I , accessed on May 27, 2014 .
  5. ^ Accusations of racism: Criticism of MEPs on ORF on August 17, 2018, accessed on August 17, 2018.
  6. ^ Austria: MEPs apologize for racist mail . In: Spiegel Online . August 17, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 17, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg