Karoline Edtstadler

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Karoline Edtstadler (2020)

Karoline Edtstadler (born March 28, 1981 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian lawyer and politician ( ÖVP ). Since January 29, 2020 she has been Federal Minister for the EU and the Constitution in the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria ( Federal Government Brief II ). From December 18, 2017 to May 28, 2019, she was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Austria . From July 2nd, 2019 to January 6th, 2020 she was a member of the European Parliament and head of the ÖVP delegation there.

Life

Karoline Edtstadler was born as the daughter of the former Salzburg State Parliament director Karl W. Edtstadler and grew up in Elixhausen in the Salzburg area . After attending the primary school in Elixhausen and the Musisches Gymnasium Salzburg , where she graduated in 1999 , she completed a law degree at the University of Salzburg . She completed her studies in 2004 as a Magistra, followed by a court internship at the Mondsee District Court and the Salzburg Regional Court .

In 2006 she became a trainee judge in the district of the Linz Higher Regional Court and in 2008 she became a judge at the Salzburg Regional Court. In October 2011 she moved to the Ministry of Justice in Section IV “Criminal Law” (criminal law) with Christian Pilnacek and in 2014 as a personal advisor in the cabinet of Justice Minister Wolfgang Brandstetter , where she was involved in the reform of the penal code and juvenile criminal law. At the beginning of 2015 she was appointed senior public prosecutor at the Vienna Corruption Prosecutor's Office and thus received a salary increase, even if her actual assignment in the Federal Ministry of Justice did not change. From May 2016 she worked as a legal assistant at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg .

Since autumn 2018, she has been Vice President of the Sports Union under President Peter McDonald .

Karoline Edtstadler has one son and lives in Salzburg. Her sister Theresa Edtstadler is the managing director of the Europa-Forum Wachau and was a candidate for the 2019 National Council election in 18th place on the state list of the People's Party of Lower Austria .

politics

In Henndorf am Wallersee she was an ÖVP councilor from 2004 to 2006. From December 18, 2017, she was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Austria . On May 28, 2019, she and the members of the Federal Government Kurz I were removed from office by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen .

As part of the coalition negotiations for the formation of a government in 2019 , she negotiated in the main group Europe, Integration, Migration and Security. On January 7, 2020, she was a Minister without portfolio in the government short-II by the Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen sworn in . She has been Federal Minister for the EU and the Constitution in the Federal Chancellery since January 29, 2020 .

Eu Parliament

For the 2019 European elections , she was ranked second in the ÖVP list behind Othmar Karas . She received 115,906 preferential votes . In the 9th electoral term beginning July 2, 2019, she is Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), a full member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) and the Delegation for Relations with the Korean Peninsula (DKOR) and Alternate member of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO, until 7 July 2019), the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET, since 8 July 2019) and the Delegation for relations with South Africa.

After the election of Othmar Karas as Vice-President of the European Parliament in July 2019, Edtstadler was elected as his successor as ÖVP Head of Delegation. Originally, she was supposed to take over the leadership of the ÖVP delegation in the EU Parliament from Othmar Karas in 2020 . Due to the move to the Federal Government Kurz II , she left the EU Parliament on January 6, 2020, and Christian Sagartz took over her EU mandate . Angelika Winzig succeeded her as head of the ÖVP delegation .

Web links

Commons : Karoline Edtstadler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Speech by the Federal President on the occasion of the appointment and inauguration of the new Federal Government. In: bundespraesident.at. January 7, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Federal Ministers, State Secretary , Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f orf.at: Salzburgerin Edtstadler new Secretary of State . Article dated December 16, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b bundespraesident.at: removal, entrustment and swearing in of the outgoing federal government . Speech by the Federal President on May 28, 2019, accessed on May 28, 2019.
  6. ^ A b c d Kleine Zeitung: Salzburg judge as State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior . Article dated December 16, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b c Portrait: Karoline Edtstadler - Salzburger is ÖVP State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior (December 16, 2017)
  8. ↑ How the ÖVP leaders swear MPs and officials to the judiciary. In: derstandard.at . February 9, 2020, accessed February 9, 2020.
  9. ↑ my seconded: Karoline Edtstadler . Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  10. ↑ State Secretary Edtstadler visits SPORTUNION Burgenland . Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  11. ↑ Salzburgerin in Lower Austria: Edtstadler sister: Vortex around candidacy for ÖVP. July 23, 2019, accessed July 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Edtstadler sisters: from St. Pölten to Brussels. July 23, 2019, accessed July 24, 2019 .
  13. ↑ The names of more than 100 turquoise-green negotiators have been determined. In: DerStandard.at . November 15, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
  14. ^ Government negotiations ÖVP-Greens. In: Upper Austrian news . Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
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  16. ↑ BMI: European elections 2019: preferential votes . Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  17. ↑ EU election: Karoline Edtstadler cracks the 100,000 preferred vote mark . Article dated May 28, 2019, retrieved May 28, 2019.
  18. ↑ Delegations EP, DKOR Welcome. European Parliament, accessed on 5 November 2019 .
  19. ↑ Austrian MEPs represented in all specialist committees. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Parliament's committees-elect chairs and vice-chairs | News | European Parliament. July 10, 2019, accessed on July 18, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Edtstadler is ÖVP delegation in the European Parliament. July 13, 2019, accessed July 13, 2019 .
  22. ↑ diepresse.com: Karas will hand over the ÖVP delegation leadership in the EU Parliament in 2020 to Edtstadler . Article dated June 5, 2019, accessed June 5, 2019.
  23. ↑ entry for Karoline Edtstadler in the House database of the European Parliament
  24. ↑ New home for ministers, new mandataries, new speakers. In: The press . January 7, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  25. ^ New ÖVP boss in Brussels. In: The press . January 7, 2020, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Tiny elected head of the ÖVP delegation. In: ORF.at . January 14, 2020, accessed January 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Edtstadler, Karoline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg