Elisabeth Kaufmann-Bruckberger

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Elisabeth Kaufmann-Bruckberger (2013)

Elisabeth Kaufmann-Bruckberger (born May 20, 1970 in Mödling ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ , BZÖ from 2005 , Stronach team from 2012 , Lower Austria team from 2013).

From December 2011 to March 2013 she was a member of the BZÖ and a member of the National Council . In October 2013 she was deposed as state party leader of the Stronach Niederösterreich team because of the poor performance in the 2013 national elections , Renate Heiser-Fischer succeeded her in this office. After the state elections in Lower Austria in 2013 , she became regional councilor in the state government of Pröll VI in April 2013 . In November 2013 she was expelled from the BZÖ because of continuous party-damaging behavior and questionable business deals, but retained her position as regional councilor and founded the “Team Lower Austria” with other former Team Stronach party colleagues in the state parliament. On April 16, 2015, after it became foreseeable that, after the SPÖ, FPÖ and Greens, the ÖVP would also support a motion to vote out, she announced that she was stepping down from the office of regional councilor due to the lake purchase case.

Career

After high school Kaufmann-Bruckenberger attended from 1984 to 1987, the hotel school module of Commerce in Vienna . From 1988 to 2008 she worked in her parents' wine tavern in Gumpoldskirchen . In addition, she had jobs at the Mandarin Oriental Group (1989–1990), the Wörthersee -Bühne (2002) and the Theatro Centro (2002).

She began her political career with the FPÖ. From 1995 to 1998 she was the deputy of the Lower Austrian provincial chairman of the Ring of Freedom Economists (RFW), and in 1998 briefly its executive provincial chairwoman. In addition, from 1995 to 2002 she was the spokesperson for the “Freedom Initiative Tourism” (FIT) of Lower Austria. From 1999 to 2002 she was a member of the municipal council of Gumpoldskirchen , from 1999 to 2003 also chairwoman of the FPÖ local group, before and afterwards (1996 to 1999 and 2003 to 2005) district party chairwoman of the FPÖ Mödling. Since 2008 she has been running her own management consultancy , whose activities she put on hold in 2008.

After moving to the Bündnis Zukunft Österreich (BZÖ) founded by Jörg Haider in 2005 as a spin-off from the FPÖ , she worked from 2005 to 2006 as managing director of BZÖ's own Orange Advertising Agency GmbH . In 2008 she was placed seventh on the BZÖ list for the National Council election , but was not sent to the National Council.In 2009 she was Deputy Provincial BZÖ in Lower Austria for the industrial district and on April 6, 2009 one of four deputies to the National Council member and the new Lower Austrian BZÖ chairman Ewald Stadler . After his move to the European Parliament, she moved up to his vacant seat in the National Council and was sworn in as a member of parliament on December 7, 2011. As such, she planned to devote herself primarily to tourism.

On August 29, 2012, Kaufmann-Bruckberger was the fourth member of the National Council to join the Stronach team, which is still being set up. After the party was able to achieve over 9 percent in the state elections in Lower Austria in 2013 and thus a seat in the provincial government, in April 2013 she moved to the provincial government of Pröll VI. As such, she was responsible for building law, event management, asylum and the employment of foreigners until her resignation in April 2015.

Causa lake purchase

During interrogations, Kaufmann-Bruckberger admitted that in 2008 he passed 700,000 euros on to the Carinthian BZÖ and kept 35,000 euros himself, money in connection with the sale of three Carinthian lakes to BAWAG and ÖGB . The WKSTA determined in this context against Kaufmann-Bruckenberger on suspicion of embezzlement, bribery, corruption (aid) and, since March 2015 on suspicion of false testimony.

After the FPÖ, the Greens and finally the SPÖ had withdrawn their trust in March 2015, the Lower Austria People's Party also declared on April 16, 2015 that it would support a vote against Kaufmann-Bruckberger due to the Seenkauf-Causa. Thereupon she declared on the same day that she would resign from the office of regional councilor.

Private life

Kaufmann-Bruckberger is divorced and has two sons.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OTS press release: Renate Heiser-Fischer new state party leader , October 1, 2013
  2. ↑ OTS press release: [1] , Nov. 29, 2013, 11:54 am
  3. ^ Kurier : Stronach rebels as "Team Lower Austria" , December 3, 2013
  4. ↑ Der Standard : Team Lower Austria Fights for Party Support , February 24, 2014
  5. ↑ a b Causa Seenkauf: Kaufmann-Bruckberger resigns . Article on diePresse.com from April 16, 2015.
  6. ^ ORF : Debate about Rumpold advertising contract , March 23, 2007
  7. ↑ vol.at : BZÖ federal list: Christoph Hagen on position 13 , September 8, 2008
  8. ^ The press : Ewald Stadler new chairman of the BZÖ Lower Austria , April 6, 2009
  9. ↑ Der Standard : Heurigenwirtin becomes Stadler's successor , December 6, 2011
  10. ↑ Der Standard : Stronachpartei presents Kaufmann: "Are on the way to founding a club" , August 29, 2012
  11. ↑ Saskia Jungnikl, Gudrun Springer: Team Stronach is looking for defectors again. March 4, 2013, accessed March 5, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Renate Graber: Seenkauf: Justice investigates because of false testimony. In: derstandard.at . April 3, 2015, accessed April 5, 2015 (German).
  13. ^ Wiener Zeitung : Ewald Stadler moves to Brussels , December 6, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Kaufmann-Bruckberger, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ, BZÖ, Team Stronach), member of the National Council, regional councilor in Lower Austria
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling