Elisabeth Köstinger

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Elisabeth Köstinger (2020)

Elisabeth Köstinger (born November 22, 1978 in Wolfsberg , Carinthia ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). Since 7 January 2020 she has been Federal Minister for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism in the Federal Government Brief II .

From December 2017 to June 2019 she was Federal Minister for Sustainability and Tourism in the Austrian federal governments Kurz I and Löger . From May 2017 she was general secretary of her party and then briefly president of the National Council . She was also a member of the EU Parliament from 2009 to 2017 and Deputy Federal Party Chairman from 2014 to 2017.

Life

Elisabeth Köstinger graduated from the Granitztal elementary school and the St. Paul secondary school in Lavanttal and passed her Matura in 1998 at the Wolfsberg Higher Federal College . From 1999 to 2003 she worked as an assistant in the Carinthian regional health insurance fund. She then began to study journalism , communication studies and applied cultural studies at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt . However, due to her work as an EU parliamentarian , she dropped out of her studies. From 2003 to 2009 she worked as a freelancer in various communication areas.

After the birth of her son in early July 2018, she temporarily handed over her ministerial office to Juliane Bogner-Strauss until the end of August .

Political career

Elisabeth Köstinger was involved in rural youth organizations: from 1995 to 1997 she headed the rural youth group Granitztal, after which she became district manager in Wolfsberg and regional manager in Carinthia. From 2002 to 2006, Köstinger was in charge of the federal organization of rural youth in Austria . During this time she was a delegate to the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA).

From 2007 to 2012 Elisabeth Köstinger was federal chairwoman of the Austrian Young Farmers ' Union (Bauernbund-Jugend). It is, among others, herself a graduate of the "aufZAQ" training of the Austrian Rural Youth and the Educa-training of the Austrian Young peasantry. Since 2009 she has been Vice President of the Austrian Farmers' Union . In 2012 Köstinger became president of 'wald.zeit Austria - platform for forest communication' for the current year.

From October 2014 Köstinger was Vice President of the Eco-Social Forum and President of the Eco-Social Forum Europe . In November 2014, Köstinger was elected federal representative of the ÖVP . In July 2015, Köstinger became deputy chairwoman of the Political Academy of the ÖVP .

Elisabeth Köstinger (center) as Member of the European Parliament (2015)

From the beginning of the legislative period in 2009, Köstinger was a member of the European Parliament , and she was re-elected in the 2014 European elections . From 2011 to 2017 she was the parliamentary managing director and deputy head of the ÖVP delegation. Köstinger was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) , the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) and deputy member and deputy spokeswoman for the European People's Party (EPP) in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) .
In addition, she was both vice-chairman of the delegation in the committees for parliamentary cooperation between the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia as well as a member of the delegation in the EURO-NEST parliamentary assembly as well as a deputy member of the delegation in the AKP parliamentary assembly -EU. In addition, Köstinger was Vice President of the Forest Management & Agro-Forest working group in the Intergroup “Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development”.

After Sebastian Kurz was elected as party chairman of the ÖVP in May 2017, Köstinger was appointed general secretary. In addition to Kurz, Gernot Blümel , Stefan Steiner and Bettina Glatz-Kremsner , she was a member of the ÖVP steering group in the course of the formation of the government after the 2017 National Council election . On November 9, 2017, she was sworn in as a member of the Austrian National Council and then elected President of the Austrian National Council. So they followed the Social Democratic Party - politician Doris Bures to. At that time, Köstinger was already being considered a candidate for ministerial in the coalition negotiations between the ÖVP and the FPÖ, which is why a President of the National Council received less than 70 percent of the votes of the MPs for the first time (66.86 percent). Five weeks later changed Köstinger to the Federal Government with it and resigned from the office of the National Council. Her successor was Wolfgang Sobotka .

On December 18, Köstinger was appointed and sworn in by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen as Federal Minister for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management ; With the changes in the areas of responsibility in some ministries that came into force on January 8, 2018, she became Federal Minister for Sustainability and Tourism .

Köstinger's climate policy has been criticized time and again by both science and environmental protection groups as not being too ambitious.

With the swearing-in of the federal government Bierlein , she left the federal government. From June 12, 2019, she was again a member of the National Council. After her move to the Federal Government Kurz II, she was replaced by Peter Weidinger in the National Council.

Awards

  • 2014: MEP of the Year (Category: Agriculture and Rural Affairs)

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Köstinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Teresa Eder: "It's about the matter out here". In: The Standard. January 19, 2010. Retrieved May 25, 2017 .
  2. ^ Elisabeth Köstinger, biography. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Elisabeth Köstinger is "back in politics". In: heute.at. August 27, 2018. Retrieved August 29, 2018 .
  4. ^ Elisabeth Köstinger becomes president of Wald.Zeit . Österreichischer Agrarverlag , June 13, 2012.
  5. ↑ Elisabeth Köstinger becomes Vice President of the Eco-Social Forum . The press , September 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ Elisabeth Köstinger becomes President of the Eco-Social Forum Europe . Austria Press Agency , October 29, 2014.
  7. ↑ Elisabeth Köstinger becomes federal representative of the ÖVP . Austria Press Agency , November 8, 2014.
  8. ↑ Mitterlehner and Co question minimum income . Der Standard , July 6, 2015.
  9. ↑ Elisabeth Köstinger achieved the second most preferred votes . Kleine Zeitung , May 27, 2014.
  10. ↑ 'Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development' in the European Parliament
  11. ↑ Köstinger new NR President - news.ORF.at. Retrieved January 22, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Climate researchers: "The climate strategy is too diffuse" - derStandard.at. Retrieved December 7, 2018 .
  13. ↑ bernhard.gaul: Austria's climate plan for 2030: Billion penalty from Brussels threatens. Retrieved December 7, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Experts: Austria's climate plans are suffering from political blockades. Retrieved December 7, 2018 .
  15. ↑ 05/29/2019 | 17:25: Three ex-ÖVP ministers back in the National Council. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  16. ↑ New home for ministers, new mandataries, new speakers. In: The press . January 7, 2020, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Köstinger receives "Oscar for EU MPs . Austria Press Agency, March 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Köstinger, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köstinger, Elli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsberg , Austria