Josef Weidenholzer

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Josef Weidenholzer (born March 6, 1950 in St. Florian am Inn ) is an Austrian sociologist and politician ( SPÖ ). He was a member of the European Parliament from the 7th electoral term , from July 6, 2015 Vice-Chairman of the S&D delegation and from 1991 to 2015 President of Volkshilfe Austria . After the European elections in Austria in 2019 , he left the European Parliament.

Life

After graduating from the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster , Weidenholzer studied sociology at the University of Social and Economic Sciences ( University of Linz ) from 1968 to 1973 and was involved as a student in the Association of Austrian Socialist Students ( VSStÖ ). In 1973 he completed his master's degree , his doctorate in 1977 and his habilitation in 1982 .

Weidenholzer started his professional career in 1973 as a research assistant at the Institute for Modern History and Contemporary History at the University of Linz and in 1975 as a university assistant at the Institute for Social Policy. He also worked as an employee of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society for the History of the Labor Movement at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz .

After lecturing at various academies and universities, research stays in Europe and overseas and a visiting professorship at Staffordshire University , Weidenholzer was appointed associate professor for social policy and social policy in 1983. He is professor emeritus for social politics and social politics and was from 1998 to 2015 chairman of the institute for social and social politics of the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

In 1984 Weidenholzer received the Victor-Adler State Prize for the history of social movements . From 1984 to 1998 he was head of the Research Institute for Social Planning, from 1998 to 2003 Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz.

Weidenholzer is married and has three children, including the writer Anna Weidenholzer .

Act

Josef Weidenholzer's scientific focus is on social policy, theories of the welfare state , international comparison of welfare state systems, political theory and political cultures in an international comparison of systems, theory and history of social movements, especially the labor movement, and advanced training in theory and application.

He also set up the Museum Arbeitswelt association in Steyr , of which he was chairman from 1986 to 1993, and carried out the exhibition Work - Man - Machine (1987), which was decisive for the permanent establishment of the museum.

From 1991 to 2015 he was President of Volkshilfe Austria. From 2007 to 2014 he was also President of the European NGO platform Solidar.

Among other things, Weidenholzer is committed to ensuring that - similar to the European Capitals of Culture - socially committed cities and municipalities are recognized as European social capitals .

In 2008 Weidenholzer was a founding member of the Momentum Congress , of which he is the Scientific Director.

Main focus of work in the European Parliament

Weidenholzer ran for the SPÖ in the 2009 European elections . As a result of the increase in the number of MPs regulated in the Lisbon Treaty , he became a member of the European Parliament on December 1, 2011 and belongs to the social democratic group . During his 1st period in the EU Parliament, the main focus of his parliamentary work was the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) , and here above all the topics of human rights, asylum, data protection, police and judicial cooperation and the safeguarding of fundamental rights.

Josef Weidenholzer is a deputy member of the Committee for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and part of the delegation for relations with Iran . From March 2012 to October 2013 he was a member of the temporary special committee against organized crime, corruption and money laundering (CRIM). The task of this special committee is to investigate and analyze organized crime, mafia organizations and criminal structures and to draw up a comprehensive plan to combat them at European level. For a year and a half, from November 2012 to June 2014, Josef Weidenholzer was a deputy member of the delegation in the committees for parliamentary cooperation between the EU and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.

Josef Weidenholzer ran again in the European elections in 2014 and achieved 28,328 preferential votes nationwide through a strong personality campaign. In his home state Upper Austria, he received the most preferential votes of all candidates (24,697). The SPÖ was able to keep its number of seats and Josef Weidenholzer moved back into the European Parliament.

The main focus of Josef Weidenholzer's parliamentary activity during the second period is still on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE). Due to his experience in human rights issues, Josef Weidenholzer had been a member and spokesman for the social democratic group in the subcommittee on human rights since July 1, 2014 . He continues to be a deputy member of the IMCO. Josef Weidenholzer will also continue his work as part of the delegation for relations with Iran in his second legislative term. With regard to relations with neighboring countries of the European Union , Josef Weidenholzer is a deputy member of both the delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo and the delegation in the ACP Group - EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly .

From autumn 2014, Josef Weidenholzer was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) as well as the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the delegation for relations with Iran.

Fonts (excerpt)

Selected Writings:

  • The caring state. On the development of social policy from Joseph II to Ferdinand Hanusch . Vienna 1985.
  • The Austrian way, prospects and insights. Linz / Vienna 1989.
  • Movement and class. Studies on Austrian workers' history. (Mithrsg.) Vienna 1978. Also in: Arbeitswelt und Sozialstaat. Festschrift for Gerhard Weissenberg for his 60th birthday. Vienna 1980.
  • The situation of the factory worker in Upper Austria. (Mithrsg.) In: Series of publications on the social and professional position of women. o. O. 1980.
  • Perspectives and tendencies in social policy. (Mithrsg.) Oswin Martinek on his 60th birthday. o. O. 1984.
  • Welfare State Development in East Asia. (Mithrsg.) Social and socio-political texts. Linz 2001.
  • Balance of union youth work in the Second Republic. In: 30 Years of Union Youth - Review and Outlook. Linz 1975.
  • Everyday fascism. In: Aufrisse. Volume 2, No. 3/1981 as well as in: Series trade union orientation. No. 1/83, pp. 19-32.
  • The old man and labor law. In: Helmut Konrad (Hrsg.): The old person in history. Vienna 1982, pp. 107–121.
  • Politics in motion - a century of social democracy. In: work / man / machine. The way to industrial society. Contributions. Linz 1987.
  • Alternative political movements. In: Jim Sweeney, Josef Weidenholzer (Eds.): Austria: A Study in Modern Achievement. Aldershot 1988, pp. 101-108.
  • Poverty as an ever new challenge. In: Poverty in Austria. Edition pro mente , Linz 1995, pp. 29–44.
  • together with Brigitte Kepplinger : The Reconstruction of Social Democracy in Linz 1945–1950. In: Denazification and Reconstruction in Linz (= Historical Yearbook of the City of Linz 1995. ) Linz 1996, pp. 13–68, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Virus regime - How the corona crisis is changing our world. Findings, analysis, suggestions. Anthology, ed. with Thomas Schmidinger , Bahoe Books, Vienna 2020.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Josef Weidenholzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Volkshilfe boss Josef Weidenholzer: Surprise demo in Goisern for the 60s . Article dated March 7, 2010, accessed December 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ Volkshilfe Federal Conference sets the course for the future . APA notification dated May 29, 2015, accessed August 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ For a Europe of social capitals! In: weidenholzer.eu. February 1, 2014, accessed March 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Professor Joe's campaign start in: OÖN from May 12, 2009.
  5. ↑ Der Standard : Stadler and Weidenholzer new in the EU Parliament , December 12, 2011
  6. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  7. ↑ Weidenholzer Josef, Univ.-Prof. Mag.Dr. at the University of Innsbruck, accessed on April 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Upper Austria for MEP Prof. Dr. Weidenholzer in the Oe-Journal of October 2, 2017, accessed on October 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Weidenholzer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian university professor and politician (SPÖ), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Florian am Inn