Joachim Kovacs

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Joachim Kovacs (2017)

Joachim Kovacs (born March 8, 1984 in Oberwart , Burgenland ) is the former state spokesman for the Austrian Green Party in Vienna and tennis coach. In August 2018, he announced his retirement from politics.

Life

Kovacs grew up in a social democratic family in Rechnitz in Burgenland. The mother is a teacher, the father a construction worker and commuter. He attended grammar school in Oberschützen and graduated from the federal school sports center Oberschützen. He then studied political science and joined the Greens Vienna in 2007 .

In his free time, Kovacs devotes himself to tennis and has been a multiple national champion in singles and national champion in doubles. He also runs the Academy4Tennis , a tennis school for competitive athletes.

politics

Joachim Kovacs joined the Greens Vienna in 2007 . In 2010 he took over the chairmanship of the Greens in Vienna's Ottakring district , where his party was able to gain in both the 2010 and 2015 elections. Since April 2013, Kovacs has been a member of the Provincial Board of the Greens Vienna. November 2015 he won the election for the country spokesman for the Greens in Vienna against Georg Prack . In 2016 he gave up the chairmanship of the Ottakringer Greens due to the new function as state spokesman.

Kovacs sees his political goals in the expansion of social security, support for marginalized groups and young people and in environmental policy. During his time as chairman of the Ottakringer Greens, he called for the expansion of playgrounds, an additional youth center, the renaming of street names with a Nazi past, the construction of a photovoltaic system on the Steinhof fire station and the preservation or upgrading of public space. He gained notoriety in Austria through his self-experiment to get by on € 7.50 a day for a month - based on the amount that is available to people in Austria who live in minimum income. His request to Austrian politicians, especially the ÖVP , to undertake a corresponding self-experiment, made the headlines. What he had left over from his higher income during the self- experiment he donated to the Neunerhaus . Several times he called for the introduction of a vacancy tax to avoid property speculation.

When in 2015 the SPÖ prevented a change in the electoral law in Vienna, which favors the major parties, by enticing away the green mandate Senol Akkilic , he spoke out in favor of terminating the coalition.

In the dispute between the Young Greens and the mother party in March 2017, he spoke out in favor of the Young Greens remaining as a youth organization of the Greens, while the majority of the federal executive committee was in favor of expulsion. This expulsion was later described as one of the reasons for the disastrous performance of the Greens in the 2017 National Council election, in which the Greens did not move into the National Council for the first time in 31 years.

In May 2017, he made people sit up and take notice when he called for May 8, Liberation Day , as an additional public holiday for all of Europe.

In the 2017 National Council election campaign, he attacked Sebastian Kurz directly on several occasions , accusing him, among other things, of the fact that his methods were a danger to democracy. After the Greens narrowly missed re-entry into the National Council in the 2017 National Council election, as they received 2/3 fewer votes than in the last National Council election, it was mainly Joachim Kovacs who tried to encourage the Vienna Greens to restart and create a mood of hope produce.

In August 2018, as part of the first announcement of his candidacy for the top election of the Vienna Greens , Kovacs announced his retirement from politics because he wanted to devote more time to his family in the future. Peter Kristöfel was elected as his successor as state spokesman in December 2018.

Trademark

Joachim Kovacs' trademark is a headband that he mostly wears and that he took with him from tennis to politics.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Kovacs. In: The Greens Vienna. Retrieved December 10, 2016 .
  2. ↑ derStandard.at: Peter Kraus wants to become the Green Leader in Vienna, Kovacs resigns . Article dated August 19, 2018, accessed August 19, 2018.
  3. ↑ www.heuta.at, today: Joachim Kovacs: There is no commitment for little people . In: heute.at . ( heute.at [accessed on October 22, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Our new state board. Retrieved October 26, 2017 .
  5. ^ Green Vienna / State Assembly: Joachim Kovacs new state spokesman for the Green Vienna . In: OTS.at . ( ots.at [accessed on October 22, 2017]).
  6. ^ Vienna: Rebellion against the green party leadership . In: DiePresse.com . ( diepresse.com [accessed December 10, 2016]).
  7. ^ Regional media Austria: Change at the Greens Ottakring: What will be different in the district now . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on October 22, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Regionalmedien Austria: Playgrounds: Too little space for young Ottakringers . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on October 23, 2017]).
  9. ^ Regional media Austria: Green Ottakring start petition for a new youth center in the district . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on October 23, 2017]).
  10. ^ Regional media Austria: New board at Josef-Weinheber-Platz . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on October 23, 2017]).
  11. ^ Regionalmedien Austria: Due to the NS past of the namesake: Pschorngasse needs to be renamed . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on October 23, 2017]).
  12. ^ Regional media Austria: Solar energy at Steinhof: City gives the green light . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on October 23, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Regionalmedien Austria: More space for pedestrians: Green Ottakring want to redesign Yppenplatz . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on October 23, 2017]).
  14. ^ Regionalmedien Austria: Success for citizens' initiative: Stöberplatz garage is history . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on October 23, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Regionalmedien Austria: Herbststrasse: More green instead of concrete desert . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on October 23, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Regionalmedien Austria: March 2, 2016: Once poverty, please. But just for fun. In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on October 23, 2017]).
  17. ↑ Living on minimum income: Day 5 - Friendship . In: New Debate . May 7, 2017 ( neue-debatte.com [accessed October 22, 2017]).
  18. ↑ Green educational workshop - Interview with Joachim Kovacs - Taking to the streets together for something. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Minimum income: Kovacs ends self-experiment - wien.ORF.at. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Joachim Kovacs. In: Joachim Kovacs. Retrieved December 10, 2016 .
  21. ^ Austrian daily newspaper. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
  22. ↑ DJ Digitale Medien GmbH .: Live a month of 7.50 euros per day: Kovacs calls Blümel to the poverty challenge . In: Today . ( heute.at [accessed April 12, 2020]).
  23. ^ Neunerhaus, scan of the Today article. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 23, 2017 ; accessed on October 23, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neunerhaus.at
  24. ↑ Regionalmedien Austria: Empty bars in Ottakring: Because art is not a magic formula . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on October 23, 2017]).
  25. ↑ Wild power struggles among the Vienna Greens. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
  26. ↑ daniela.wahl: Joachim Kovacs, club chairman of the Greens Ottakring: "Am for Aus der Koalition" . ( kurier.at [accessed on October 22, 2017]).
  27. ↑ peter.temel: Dispute between Glawischnig and "Young Greens": What is it actually about? ( kurier.at [accessed on October 22, 2017]).
  28. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Greens part with Young Greens . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on October 22, 2017]).
  29. ^ Conflict escalates: Viennese Greens support the party youth . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed October 22, 2017]).
  30. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Vienna State Spokesman for the whereabouts of the Young Greens. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
  31. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Vienna State Spokesman for the whereabouts of the Young Greens . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on October 22, 2017]).
  32. ↑ National Council election 2017. Accessed on October 22, 2017 .
  33. ↑ www.heuta.at, Today: Shock! Greens fly out of the National Council . In: heute.at . ( heute.at [accessed on October 22, 2017]).
  34. ↑ Holidays 4.0 . In: Joachim Kovacs . May 24, 2017 ( wordpress.com [accessed October 23, 2017]).
  35. ↑ www.heuta.at, Today: Green Vienna: May 8th should be an official holiday . In: heute.at . ( heute.at [accessed on October 23, 2017]).
  36. ↑ Vienna is the best city in the world. #proud of it . In: Joachim Kovacs . September 25, 2017 ( wordpress.com [accessed October 22, 2017]).
  37. ↑ Führer principle - our newspaper . In: Our newspaper . May 14, 2017 ( our-zeitung.at [accessed October 22, 2017]).
  38. ↑ Joachim Kovacs. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
  39. ↑ Candidacy and resignation from the Greens . August 19, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed November 29, 2018]).
  40. ^ Kurier: Wiener Grüne: Peter Kristöfel is the new state spokesman . Article dated December 1, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Kovacs, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian tennis coach and state spokesman for the Green Party in Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgenland