Doris Bures

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Doris Bures (2017)

Doris Bures (born August 3, 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and member of the Austrian National Council . Bures is currently the second President of the National Council and was the (first) President of the Austrian National Council from September 2, 2014 to November 9, 2017 . Before that, from December 2008 to September 2014 she was Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology in the Faymann I and II cabinets .

She is also deputy party leader of the SPÖ.

Career

Bures claims to have been politicized in 1978 during the protests against the planned Zwentendorf nuclear power plant , in which she actively participated.

She began her political career in 1980 when she took on a role in the Federal Secretariat of the Socialist Youth . In 1987 she moved into the District Parliament of Vienna- Liesing , and in 1990 into the National Council. In Liesing, she has been the district party leader since March 2009. She was the SPÖ Federal Managing Director from 2000 to January 2007 and again from June to November 2008. She was a member of the National Council from November 1990 to January 2007. Bures is a long-term political companion and one of the closest confidants of the former SPÖ federal party chairman Alfred Gusenbauer .

On January 11, 2007 she became interim Federal Minister without portfolio , from March to June 2007 Federal Minister for Women , Media and Public Service in the Federal Chancellery (after the women's agendas were spun off from the Ministry of Health - previously known as the Federal Ministry for Health and Women (BMFG)) and therefore the agendas for family and youth were incorporated; afterwards the ministry traded as the Federal Ministry for Health, Family and Youth (BMGFJ)). At that time, Bures was also subordinate to the Federal Equal Treatment Commission . In this position, among other things, she launched a poster campaign in winter 2007-2008 to publicize the women's helpline against male violence. The subject, a woman and a child with protective helmets and next to them a man, sparked discussions on the one hand about domestic violence and on the other hand about the appropriateness of the representation on the posters. Political criticism came from the FPÖ , whose equality spokesman at the time, Karlheinz Klement , spoke of “re-education projects” and “gender madness” in a speech in the National Council, and the ÖVP .

At the beginning of July 2008, Bures moved from the Federal Ministry for Women, Media and Public Service to the SPÖ party headquarters as federal manager.

Since December 2008 she has been a member of the Federal Government under Chancellor Faymann as Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology and was entrusted with this office again in 2013 . After Barbara Prammer's death , Bures was nominated by the SPÖ as President of the National Council and elected by secret ballot on September 2, 2014 with 78 percent of the vote.

At the end of 2016, she organized a state act in the Austrian parliament entitled “Gesture of Responsibility”. The background to the event was the cases of abuse in state and church children's homes in the post-war period, the responsibility of which the Republic of Austria and the Church officially acknowledged as part of the state act. As a result of the state act, the National Council passed the Home Victims' Pension Act (HOG, Federal Law Gazette I No. 69/2017 ) in spring 2017 , which provides for former home children to receive an additional monthly pension of 300 euros, provided that they are in state or Church care has been exposed to violence, sexual abuse or other ill-treatment.

From July 8, 2016 to January 21, 2017, because of the repetition of the Federal President's election, she carried out the official business of the Austrian Federal President together with the two other National Council Presidents Karlheinz Kopf (ÖVP) and Norbert Hofer (FPÖ).

Since 2012, a controversial advertisement allocation of the Ministry of Transport under Bures occupies the courts. It is about a presumed manipulation of the award of the advertising contract to an agency whose boss "is considered an SPÖ intimate and has won practically all important tenders from the Ministry of Transport since 2008". After the contract was awarded to this agency, the budget was increased significantly and the funds were largely distributed in newspaper advertisements, 60% of which were provided with photos by Minister Bures. The public prosecutor's office in Vienna speaks of “processes like those of Karl-Heinz Grasser ”. In November 2018 it was established in the first instance that the winning campaign was to be judged as plagiarism .

Private

Doris Bures was born in Vienna in 1962 as the fourth of six children and grew up in a community apartment. The father, a toolmaker by trade , left the family when she was six years old.

When she was 15, Doris Bures went to work herself to help her mother with the rent. Later she attended a commercial school in Vienna and did an apprenticeship as an assistant in a dental practice.

For 24 years she was in a relationship with the media manager Wolfgang Jansky, today managing director of the daily newspaper Heute , from whom she separated in early 2008. The two have a grown daughter.

Fonts (selection)

  • Modern labor law from the perspective of women. In: Klaus Poier, Franz Prettenthaler (Hrsg.): Gerechte Arbeitswelt. Globalization, flexibility, poverty reduction? Leykam Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7011-0102-3 , pp. 155-158.
  • “The new election” - An SPÖ election campaign from the stand. In: Thomas Hofer, Barbara Tóth (Ed.): Election 2008. Strategies, victors, sensations. Molden, Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-85485-235-3 , pp. 32–45.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Doris Bures  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christoph Zotter: Doris from the block . In: date . No. 03/2014 . Vienna March 7, 2014, p. 40-43 .
  2. ↑ Die Presse : No children, good wife, better workforce , January 3, 2008.
  3. ↑ Der Standard : What Doris Bures gave their fathers for Christmas , January 3, 2008.
  4. ↑ Die Presse : Klement insists on the term "gender madness" , June 18, 2008.
  5. ↑ Parliamentary question 3444 / J XXIII. GP, January 30, 2008 .
  6. ↑ Answer to query 3447 / AB (XXIII.GP), March 28, 2008 .
  7. ↑ Die Presse : Bures: Emotional Handover to Silhavy , July 2, 2008.
  8. ↑ Der Standard : Emotional Handover of Office from Bures to Silhavy , July 7, 2008.
  9. ^ A b Wiener Zeitung : Infrastructure - Minister Doris Bures , November 25, 2008 ( Memento from March 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ National Council: Bures elected president with a clear majority , article in Salzburger Nachrichten of September 2, 2014.
  11. ↑ [1]
  12. ↑ National Council unanimously resolves Home Victims' Pension Act - BIZEPS . In: BIZEPS . April 26, 2017 ( bizeps.or.at [accessed June 9, 2017]).
  13. ↑ The Standard : One President Becomes Three , July 1, 2016.
  14. ↑ Dominik Schreiber: Alcohol commercial is now in court . October 29, 2012 ( kurier.at [accessed November 12, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Dominik Schreiber: Alcohol commercial is now in court . October 29, 2012 ( kurier.at [accessed November 12, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Dominik Schreiber: Bures photos instead of money for safety in traffic . July 16, 2015 ( kurier.at [accessed November 12, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Dominik Schreiber: Bures photos instead of money for safety in traffic . July 16, 2015 ( kurier.at [accessed November 12, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Dominik Schreiber: Bures era: Ministry campaign worth millions was plagiarism . November 12, 2018 ( kurier.at [accessed November 12, 2018]).
  19. ^ Austria of October 11, 2008.
  20. ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
  21. ↑ LH Schützenhöfer awarded a great gold medal of honor with the star: High national award for the 2nd President of the National Council Doris Bures . Article dated June 15, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bures, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna