Gertraud Knoll

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Gertraud Knoll (2008)

Gertraud Knoll , née Braun, married Knoll-Lacina (born December 7, 1958 in Linz ) is a former Protestant Austrian pastor and superintendent and politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

According to her statement, Gertraud Braun was a so-called “in between ” child of three siblings. Her father actually wanted to marry a Catholic out of love, but his Protestant parents refused to do so. When he married his wife - who would later become the mother of Gertraud and her siblings - she was only nineteen years old. Conflicts in the marriage of the two have always been difficult because both large families , on both the maternal and paternal sides, interfered and took sides, and each wanted to get the couple's three children on their side. In 1972 the marriage of the parents of the then thirteen year old Gertraud broke up. In Knoll's opinion, it was the first divorce in Upper Austria in which custody of the children passed to the father. Concerning you, it was your "own, very clearly expressed will". “It was crystal clear to me: I couldn't have lived with my mother alone.” As a result, she learned “many contradictions that are possible in a human life” even in her childhood, that her own personal freedom without dependencies is important to her, and she learned her “ persistent conflict ability ".

After elementary school, she attended grammar school. In 1977 she graduated from high school and married Otmar Knoll in the same year. In Vienna , Gertraud Knoll studied Protestant theology and graduated with a Magistra. From 1982 to 1983 she was university assistant for systematic theology at the University of Vienna .

Evangelical functionary

From 1983 to 1985 Knoll worked as a teaching assistant in Stoob , Lutzmannsburg and Weppersdorf . On June 25, 1985, she was inaugurated as the first female pastor of the Diocese of Burgenland in the parish of Weppersdorf. On April 28, 1994, she was elected Austria's first female superintendent by the Superintendential Assembly of the Diocese of Burgenland and took up this office on October 23 of the same year. In connection with the National Council election in October 2002, she resigned all church offices to go into politics for the SPÖ (see section SPÖ politician ).

Became known Gertraud Knoll early 1995 by their preaching on the grave of the four of Franz Fuchs in Oberwart by a booby trap murdered Roma . From 1995 to 1997 Knoll hosted six Afghan siblings, first in church asylum and then as foster parents together with her then-husband, because these orphaned refugee children had dropped out of federal care.

On June 20, 1999, she held the closing service for the 28th German Evangelical Church Congress in Stuttgart .

politics

Non-party

As a Protestant superintendent, Gertraud Knoll ran as a non-party candidate in the Austrian federal presidential election in 1998 and achieved second place with over half a million votes or 13.6 percent. Because of her candidacy for Federal President, a motion to vote out as Burgenland Superintendent was submitted. However, this was rejected by a clear majority.

In 1998 she categorically ruled out that she would run for political office for a party at some point. However, she subsequently increased her political commitment. After the National Council election in 1999 , she appeared on February 19, 2000 as a speaker at the large rally entitled "Resistance against black and blue, against racism and welfare cuts" against the (first) black and blue government under Wolfgang , promised on February 4 Bowl was directed (see Thursday demonstrations ). For this appearance Knoll, who in the speech "sharply [...] the government participation of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) in Austria, the party of the right-wing populist Jörg Haider [criticized]", was particularly hostile from the right-wing camp. After massive threats, which were also directed against her children, she took a special leave of absence. At the time, she was also spied on by police officers close to the FPÖ. In 2002 she was one of the proponents of the popular initiative .

In 2001, Knoll was nominated by a total of four associations for election as a representative of the ORF audience council . In the direct election for parents and families , she received 29,605 out of a total of 62,105 valid votes and was then considered a representative of the ORF, close to the SPÖ.

SPÖ politician

After the breakup of the German Schüssel I government in autumn 2002 and the resignation of Viktor Klima , Alfred Gusenbauer was elected SPÖ party chairman. For his team in a future government, Knoll appeared in November 2002 as an SPÖ candidate for the office of State Secretary for new social issues . Because of a Social Democratic Party-led government after a lost national elections was not (it was followed by the Federal Government dish II ), announced Gusenbauer in the ORF - Pressestunde on 28 April 2003 that Knoll would work "in a new and very exciting field" and announced in May 2003 the publication for her new area of ​​work: "She will not be in the service of the SPÖ, so Gusenbauer, but will cooperate more closely with the party." Accordingly, in 2003 she was appointed head of the SPÖ platform future and culture workshops (ZUK) , which she exercised until 2007 (according to another source until the closure of the ZUK in early 2008).

From November 18, 2005 to November 6, 2007 Gertraud Knoll was a member of the Federal Council nominated by the SPÖ , taking over the FPÖ mandate from John Gudenus , which was lost due to the state election results in Vienna on October 23, 2005 .

After the SPÖ mandate in the European Parliament , Maria Berger , joined the newly formed federal government Gusenbauer on January 11, 2007 , Knoll could have taken on the EU mandate next; However, she decided against because she wanted to stay in Austria because of the family with three underage children. She thus remained in her former functions as a mandate in the Federal Council (until November 2007, see above) and as head of the future and cultural workshops. From 2007 she was the managing director of the SPÖ - Alsergrund from March 2009 to 2010 .

From November 7, 2007 (after the resignation of Caspar Eine) she was an SPÖ member of the National Council until the end of the legislative period on October 27, 2008 .

Volunteering

Gertraud Knoll had been an elected member of the Presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress since at least October 2007 . She resigned from this position at the turn of the year 2007/2008 for personal reasons.

Private

Gertraud Knoll was married to the Protestant theologian (pastor in school service) Otmar Knoll from 1977 to 2004 for 27 years. With him she has two daughters (* 1991 and * 1993) and a son (* 2001). In October 2006, Gertraud Knoll and the former finance minister Ferdinand Lacina went public and confirmed that they were a couple and that they shared a flat. At that time Lacina was living "amicably separated" from his wife, with whom he has two grown children. Gertraud Knoll-Lacina and Ferdinand Lacina are now married.

On November 13, 2008 it became known that Knoll had resigned from the Protestant Church as "an expression of [her] Protestant identity". The reason she gave was the pastoral letter of the Carinthian superintendent Manfred Sauer , which had to be read out in the evangelical church services on Sunday. In the letter on the anniversary of Jörg Haider's death , Sauer praised the deceased governor as “a charismatic and passionate politician with body and soul who shaped and shaped the political events of the Second Republic like no other.” He was “an extremely courteous, warm and sensitive person ”, Who“ often helped very spontaneously and unbureaucratically ”. Knoll criticized the newspaper News in the pastoral letter of the superintendent that one “could not be a bit against anti-Semitism or be silent about it”, and pointed out that “Haider shipped asylum seekers to a Carinthian mountain pasture or that members of the Waffen SS were decent people In one broadcast, Knoll called the pastoral letter an “unfortunate pseudo-beatification of Haider”.

Awards

literature

  • Sermon on Isaiah 58: 7–12 as part of the 2009 fasting sermon series “Justice exalts a people”. Held by Pastor Dr. Ellen Ueberschär, General Secretary of the German Evangelical Church Congress, Fulda, on April 5, 2009, p. 4f.

Web links

Commons : Gertraud Knoll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See query on the website of the Austrian Parliament, Die Parlamentarinen since 1918, letter K : “Knoll-Lacina Gertraud, Mag. See Knoll Gertraud, Mag.” Accessed on March 13, 2012. (Since when Gertraud Knoll-Lacina and Ferdinand Lacina are married does not emerge from it.)
  2. ^ Station C: Gertraud Knoll introduces himself. In: Anke Rüdinger (Red.): Marthas Fest. Women live worship. Edited by the office of the women's representative of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg, Stuttgart 2005, p. 16f. ( Full text (PDF; p. 17f .; 1.6 MB) accessed on March 13, 2012.)
  3. ↑ a b c Mag. Gertraud Knoll. Entry in Club Carriere, no date (before / around 2004; see section Private ). Retrieved March 13, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Gertraud Knoll honored with the "The intrepid word" award. ("This honored the 44-year-olds standing up against anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism in their homeland.") In: religion. ORF .at, April 28, 2003. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Gertraud Knoll: Second attempt at a political career. In: religion.ORF.at, October 29, 2002. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
  6. ↑ APD - Information from the Adventist Press Service (ed.): German Evangelical Church Congress turns 50. Stuttgart Church Congress helps child soldiers and victims of human trafficking. In: Adventist Press Service. Central edition for Germany, 3/1999, March 1999, 16th volume. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
  7. ↑ Monday: What reforms does our health system need? APA-OTS press release of the SPÖ Vienna , November 14, 2002. Accessed on March 13, 2012.
  8. ↑ Future and culture workshops. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (ed.); Retrieved March 13, 2012
  9. ↑ a b c According to the biography on the website of the Austrian Parliament as of September 3, 2008. Accessed on March 13, 2012.
  10. ↑ SPÖ closes its future workshop. In: KPÖ -Wien-Newsletter, February 4, 2008: “… 'money', according to the manager Gertraud Knoll, 'should be here, but it is not there. The party saves. '”Retrieved March 13, 2012.
  11. ↑ Berger successor: Knoll renounces the EU mandate. In: burgenland.ORF.at, January 11, 2007. Accessed on March 13, 2012.
  12. ↑ Gertraud Knoll. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (ed.); Retrieved March 13, 2012
  13. ↑ Gertraud Knoll instead of one in the National Council. In: burgenland.ORF.at, October 13, 2007. Accessed March 13, 2012.
  14. ↑ The Presidium. The members. ( Memento from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) "The Presidium currently consists of: [...] Gertraud Knoll, Mag., Vienna [...]"
  15. ^ Matthias Honold: Two new members in the Kirchentag presidium. ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Die Other Welt - Online, March 7, 2008. Retrieved March 13, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / die-andere-welt.de
  16. ^ "Profile": Ex-Finance Minister Lacina and Gertraud Knoll, head of the SPÖ future workshop, are a couple. Subtitle: Knoll: "Suddenly and clearly it became love." APA-OTS press release of profil magazine , October 2, 2006. Accessed March 13, 2012.
  17. ^ Protest against praise for Jörg Haider: Knoll resigns from church In: Die Presse / APA , November 13, 2008. Accessed on March 13, 2012.
  18. ↑ Gertraud Knoll resigned from the Protestant church because of the Haider hymn. In: News , November 13, 2008. Retrieved March 13, 2012. (Print: Issue 46/2008.)
  19. ↑ Gertraud Knoll resigned from the Protestant church because of the Haider hymn. In: News , November 13, 2008. Retrieved March 13, 2012. (Print: Issue 46/2008.)
  20. ↑ Gertraud Knoll resigned from the church. In: burgenland.ORF.at, November 13, 2008. Accessed March 13, 2012.
  21. ^ Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien awards the Friedrich Torberg Medal on November 27th. APA-OTS press release of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, November 24, 2000. Accessed on March 13, 2012. The medal is awarded "[for] exemplary attitude and solidarity in the struggle for truth and human dignity" (see illustration ( memento of the original from 4 March 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. On the back of the medal. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lead-niskor.org
  22. ↑ AMOS Prize 2001: Gertraud Knoll and Beatrix Spreng. Jury praised advocacy against right-wing extremism and xenophobia. In: Website of the OPEN CHURCH, Evangelical Association in Württemberg, undated. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
  23. ↑ Lenten sermon 2009 by Pastor Dr. Ellen Ueberschär: Full text (PDF) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from the 3rd paragraph on page 4: “I want to take current [examples]: […] Another story is that of Gertraud Knoll. A courageous woman from Austria, the first female bishop. [...] " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinerdom.de
personal data
SURNAME Knoll, Gertraud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knoll-Lacina, Gertraud (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Protestant theologian and politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz