Gabi Burgstaller

Gabi Burgstaller 2007

Gabriele "Gabi" Burgstaller (born May 23, 1963 in Penetzdorf / Niederthalheim , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian politician. She belongs to the SPÖ and was Governor of the State of Salzburg from 2004 to 2013 . In May 2013, Burgstaller announced that she would withdraw from politics after the SPÖ suffered major losses in the 2013 state elections in Salzburg .

Life

At the opening of the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn 2010 in Krimml

After graduating from high school in Gmunden and spending a year abroad in England, Burgstaller studied law at the University of Salzburg . From 1987 to 1989 Gabi Burgstaller was an assistant at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law and at the Institute for Legal Sociology in Salzburg. Between 1989 and 1994 she worked as a consumer advisor at the Salzburg Chamber of Labor . In this function, she became known to the general public as a specialist in advice on residential and tenancy law and as the representative of 25,000 investors harmed by the WEB-Bautreuhand-IMMAG group.

Her political career began in 1994 when she was elected to the Salzburg state parliament and immediately became the club chairman of the SPÖ state parliamentary group. On April 27, 1999, Burgstaller was elected regional councilor for women, building, trade, consumer protection and traffic, and on March 31, 2001, regional party leader of the Salzburg SPÖ. She was also the party's deputy federal party leader.

On April 25, 2001, the Salzburg State Parliament elected Burgstaller as the first deputy of Governor Franz Schausberger .

In the elections to the Salzburg state parliament on March 7, 2004 , as the top candidate of the SPÖ, she succeeded for the first time in winning a majority in the state that had been dominated by the ÖVP since 1945 . During the election campaign, she emphasized consensus and cooperation with other parties as the goal of her work. She kept her ideological ideas in the background for the duration of the election campaign.

On April 28, 2004, she was elected Governor of the Burgstaller I state government by the Salzburg state parliament . This made her the first woman to head the state of Salzburg. As governor, Gabi Burgstaller was responsible for the areas of education, schools, health, hospitals, disaster control, fire brigade, science and research, women and Europe in the Salzburg state government.

During her tenure as governor, the possibility of abortion was created in the Salzburg state clinics in 2005 . The abortion debate led to violent political turmoil. The ÖVP tried to prevent Burgstaller's plans and threatened the end of the government coalition. Abortion opportunities met with strong criticism, especially from the Catholic Church and related organizations. The Archbishop of Salzburg, Alois Kothgasser, described the killing of an unborn child as the most serious injustice and devoted the Lenten Shepherd's 2005 to the subject of protecting life. After the election on March 1, 2009 , she was re-elected by the Salzburg state parliament on April 22, 2009 as governor of the Burgstaller II state government .

Burgstaller repeatedly drew attention to itself in federal politics because it repeatedly undermined the party line of the Federal SPÖ under both party chairman Alfred Gusenbauer and Werner Faymann . For example, she spoke out in favor of introducing tuition fees and criticized Education Minister Claudia Schmied , who wanted to increase teaching obligations by two hours per week in 2009. On the other hand, she again spoke out in 2012 that teachers, like all other professional groups, should only have five weeks vacation. In the context of the affair about financial irregularities at the Salzburg Easter Festival , Burgstaller described the tax advisor to the festival management as the "central figure of the whole". A lawsuit by the tax consultant for damage to reputation and credit ended with a settlement in which Burgstaller withdrew all allegations and paid the procedural costs of around 50,000 euros.

In December 2012 it became known that in the so-called Salzburg speculation scandal involving swap transactions, the State of Salzburg probably suffered damage of 340 million euros. Burgstaller announced that it would encourage investigations. Deputy Governor David Brenner from the SPÖ resigned from all political offices on January 23, 2013.

After the state elections in Salzburg in 2013 , in which the SPÖ suffered a historic loss on May 5, 2013, Gabi Burgstaller announced her retirement from politics. Your position as party leader of the SPÖ Salzburg was filled with Walter Steidl .

Burgstaller returned to the Chamber of Labor on October 1, 2013.

Gabi Burgstaller married Anton Holzer on July 5, 2003 in the Marble Hall of Mirabell Palace and lives in Hallein .

Awards

2007: Large silver medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
2011: Officer of the Order for Services to Lithuania

literature

Gabi Burgstaller , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 29/2013 from July 16, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Commons : Gabriele Burgstaller - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the SPÖ Salzburg

Individual evidence

↑ Kothgasser: killing an unborn child is always the worst injustice ; kath.net, December 14, 2004.
↑ Alois Kothgasser: Lenten pastor letter 2005: Choose life! ( Memento of December 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Internet site of the Archdiocese of Salzburg, February 9, 2005 (pdf; 118 kB)
↑ New old state government sworn in ; APA report on Standard.at, April 22, 2009.
↑ Trial of the Easter Festival: Comparison ; Article on ORF-Salzburg from June 22, 2012
^ Gabi Burgstaller apologizes ; APA article in the courier , December 12, 2012
↑ Sylvia Wörgetter: David Brenner: "The end of a phase of life" . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . January 23, 2013
^ Walter Steidl succeeds Burgstaller as SPÖ head of Salzburg ; Salzburger Nachrichten, May 7, 2013
↑ orf.at - Burgstaller returns to the Chamber of Labor. Accessed June 24, 2013
^ Federal Chancellor: Query response to the President of the National Council, Maga Barbara Prammer ; Vienna, April 23, 2012. In it: List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952; P. 1771 (pdf; 6.9 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Burgstaller, Gabi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Burgstaller, Gabriele (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian politician (SPÖ), governor of Salzburg
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Penetzdorf, Niederthalheim , Upper Austria

[KN-1] Kothgasser: killing an unborn child is always the worst injustice ; kath.net, December 14, 2004.

[ES-2] Alois Kothgasser: Lenten pastor letter 2005: Choose life! ( Memento of December 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Internet site of the Archdiocese of Salzburg, February 9, 2005 (pdf; 118 kB)

[RB-3] New old state government sworn in ; APA report on Standard.at, April 22, 2009.

[4] Trial of the Easter Festival: Comparison ; Article on ORF-Salzburg from June 22, 2012

[5] Gabi Burgstaller apologizes ; APA article in the courier , December 12, 2012

[6] Sylvia Wörgetter: David Brenner: "The end of a phase of life" . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . January 23, 2013

[7] Walter Steidl succeeds Burgstaller as SPÖ head of Salzburg ; Salzburger Nachrichten, May 7, 2013

[8] orf.at - Burgstaller returns to the Chamber of Labor. Accessed June 24, 2013

[9] Federal Chancellor: Query response to the President of the National Council, Maga Barbara Prammer ; Vienna, April 23, 2012. In it: List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952; P. 1771 (pdf; 6.9 MB)