Doraja Eberle

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Doraj Eberle (2018)

Doraja Eberle (born August 2, 1954 in Salzburg ) is a former Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and founder of the humanitarian aid organization Farmers Help Farmers . From 2004 to 2010 she was a member of the Salzburg state government .

Life

Doraja Eberle is the third of ten children of the former Salzburg Provincial Council Friedrich Mayr-Melnhof . She attended the Social Academy in Vienna , which she graduated in 1976. During this time she went to Germany and Switzerland as well as to Chile and Brazil for training. In 1980 she married the tax advisor Alexander Eberle.

Political career

From 1983 to 1989 Eberle was community representative in Grödig , and from 1995 to 1999 local director of the ÖVP women's movement in Grödig.

After the state elections in Salzburg in 2004 , she became state councilor in the provincial government of Burgstaller I (areas of responsibility: family, childcare, youth, adult education, folk culture, music, preservation of cultural heritage, community development, national park). In 2007 she initiated the creation of a Liesl-Geisler Prize for Humanity by the State of Salzburg. The prize was to be named after Liesl Geisler , who, as the landlady of the Krimmler Tauernhaus, helped more than 5000 Eastern European Jews flee via Italy to Palestine in the post-war period . From a later response from Eberle to the state parliament, it emerged that the preparations for a “Salzburg humanity award” should be completed by the end of 2010. It is not yet known whether this price will actually be realized. After the state elections in Salzburg in 2009, she remained in the provincial government of Burgstaller II for the time being . In October 2010, she resigned for personal reasons.

Humanitarian engagement - farmers help farmers

Under the impression of the television images from the Bosnian war at the beginning of the 1990s, she drove to the war zone herself to get an idea of ​​the situation. She decided to help and subsequently founded the association farmers help farmers - Salzburg together with her husband in 1992 . On the TV show Wetten, dass ..? she saw 100 men erecting 100 houses in 100 hours. She got in touch with the competition candidates and asked Hans Fritz, who in turn had founded the farmers help farmers association in Bavaria to support Croatian war victims, to show her how these log houses are built. The association, which was financed exclusively by private donations from the beginning and did not accept any public subsidies, built the first houses for refugees in Sisak near the front line at the time. With construction costs of around 4,000 euros each, the association has since built around 1,000 such houses in 28 villages.

Other focal points of the association's work in addition to house building were material and food aid from the start. An essential core of the activity is the support of refugees in returning to their homeland. From 1993 to 1995 “sponsorship packages” for Croatians who fled to Slovenia from Kosovo were brought to the crisis area, from 1996 to 1997 material aid for refugees in the former Krajina and for schools, doctors and veterinarians (especially medication), since then the mental hospital has also been opened Jakes in Bosnia, where around 400 mentally ill people and the medical staff are provided with medication and food, and in 1997/1998 help for around 8000 people in Odžak . An aid project has existed in Banja Luka since 1999 , where houses are also being built and refugees are being supported in their return. The association organized food transports to Albania , where it also financially supported the refugee camp “Village of Peace 1”, to Sarajevo and for Caritas in Zagreb .

Since 2000, the association has been helping with the reconstruction, resettlement of those who had fled before and the revitalization of destroyed rural communities near Srebrenica and throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina , regardless of the ethnicity of the people. In addition to the development of settlements, the infrastructure is also being rebuilt, including road construction, medical care, the establishment of schools and mine clearance , and projects for self-help are being promoted (agricultural production, small businesses with partial marketing abroad, awarding of as many craft contracts as possible on site).

Eberle has also been a member of the ERSTE Foundation Board of Directors since 2011 . In December 2012 she was appointed CEO.

Honors and awards (excerpt)

Eberle or farmers help farmers received the following honors:

literature

  • Doraja Eberle (editor): Traces of charity: 20 years of “farmers help farmers” . Styria Premium, first edition August 2012. ISBN 3222133816

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Neuhold: Israel honors Fluchthelferin , In: Der Standard , print edition of July 3, 2009
  2. ↑ ORF -Salzburg: Landesrätin Doraja Eberle resigns , October 27th 2010 (accessed August 4, 2012)
  3. ↑ Der Standard : Help idea thanks to "Wetten, dass ...?" , August 3, 2012
  4. ^ Hans Fritz, Projects: "Farmers Help Farmers" in Croatia
  5. ↑ Farmers Help Farmers: About "Farmers Help Farmers - Salzburg"
  6. ↑ ERSTE Foundation : Doraja Eberle joins Managing Board of ERSTE Foundation , October 12, 2011 (accessed on August 4, 2012)
  7. ↑ ERSTE Foundation : A new managing board team for ERSTE Foundation , December 14, 2012
  8. ^ State of Salzburg: Proud of excellent people from Salzburg , May 6, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Eberle, Doraja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian state politician of the ÖVP
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg