Heide Schmidt

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Heide Schmidt (Vienna 2008)

Heide Schmidt , b. Kollmann (born November 27, 1948 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is an Austrian politician (initially FPÖ , from 1993 LIF or NEOS ) and lawyer .

biography

Heide Schmidt was born in Kempten as the daughter of Sudeten German expellees . After her parents divorced, she moved with her mother and sister from Kempten to Vienna in 1950 . After graduating in 1966 she studied at the University of Vienna Law and graduated as Dr. iur. After their divorce, Schmidt kept the name of her former husband and worked until 1988 as an assistant to the Ombudsman's Office in Vienna. During this time she worked on a consultancy program for Austrian Broadcasting Corporation . At about the same time she completed her studies in social and economic sciences.

Heide Schmidt had been a member of the FPÖ since 1973 . In 1988 she became General Secretary of the FPÖ, from 1990 to 1993 she was deputy to the federal party leader of the FPÖ ( Jörg Haider ). In 1992, at Haider's instigation, she stood as a candidate for the FPÖ in the federal presidential election . From 1987 to 1990 she was a member of the Federal Council and for the entire period from 1990 to 1999 a member of the National Council (since 1993 for the Liberal Forum ). Between 1990 and 1994 she was also the third president of the National Council . From 1992 to 1999 she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

In 1993 she left the FPÖ together with other liberal party members such as Friedhelm Frischenschlager , Klara Motter and Thomas Barmüller . The trigger for the separation was the initiative of Austria first initiated by the FPÖ under Haider , which was directed against foreigners in general and immigrants in particular. On February 4, 1993, three days after the end of the registration period for the referendum, they announced their exit from the FPÖ and the founding of the new Liberal Forum (LIF) party . There were also fundamental differences of opinion on the FPÖ under Jörg Haider's leadership in terms of EC policy, the protection of minorities, the integration of foreigners and the political style.

Schmidt was at the head of the LIF for several years, which was successful in the first rounds (6% in 1994 and 5.5% in the National Council elections in 1995) and also made it into three state parliaments (1996 in Vienna with 8% of the votes, also in Lower Austria and Styria). As a representative of the LIF, she ran for the federal presidential elections in 1998 , which Thomas Klestil was able to win in the first ballot.

In the 1999 National Council elections , the Liberal Forum narrowly failed to pass the four percent hurdle, and Schmidt then left politics for the time being. She became chairwoman of the Institute for an Open Society founded on her initiative , a non-party private foundation with sponsors from business and various areas of public life, which existed until 2009.

From the year 2000, Schmidt moderated the ATV discussion round Headline Talk alternately with Dieter Moor .

In July 2008 she returned to daily politics and stood as the top candidate for the Liberal Forum in the early National Council elections in 2008 . Due to the resignation of Alexander Zach as party leader, she took over the party leadership on September 23, 2008 on an interim basis. Since the LIF failed to pass the four percent hurdle in the National Council election with a vote of 2.1%, it declared its final withdrawal from politics on September 30, 2008.

Since then she has been involved in the social and democratic-political area. As a result of the merger of the Liberal Forum with the NEOS ( NEOS - The New Austria and Liberal Forum ) in January 2014, Heide Schmidt is a member of the NEOS.

literature

  • Peter Pelinka: Heide Schmidt - A Provocation , Vienna 1993.
  • Oliver Lehmann: The Last Chance - Heide Schmidt and Liberalism in Austria , Vienna 1999.
  • Heide Schmidt: The idea of ​​an open society , Vienna 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heide Schmidt - The LIF-Liberale is 60 years old - Wiener Zeitung Online. In: wienerzeitung.at. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ From the notorious FPÖ to the “Liberal Forum”: Heide Schmidt wants to bring Austria on the reform course: A Liberal with late bloomer - ZEIT ONLINE . In: zeit.de. Retrieved November 2, 2017 .
  3. ^ Heide Schmidt in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  4. ^ Austrian media library : founding a new party. The Liberal Forum , ORF radio report on the press conference, February 4, 1993.
  5. ^ Heide Schmidt and the liberal experiment ( Memento from September 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), dossier of the Wiener Zeitung , January 15, 2004.
  6. ^ Heide Schmidt closes her "Institute for an Open Society" , Der Standard , December 22, 2009.
  7. ↑ Heide Schmidt returns as LIF's top candidate , Der Standard , July 25, 2008.
  8. ^ Project LIF for Schmidt "completed" , Der Standard, September 30, 2008.
  9. ^ "Literally - Heide Schmidt" , Radio Orange 94.0 , February 20, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Heide
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kollmann, Heide (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and politician (FPÖ, LIF), member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten (Allgäu)