Kriemhild Trattnig

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Kriemhild Trattnig (born May 10, 1937 ) is a former Austrian politician of the FPÖ in Carinthia . She was among other things club chairwoman of the FPÖ in the Carinthian state parliament and second state parliament president. She was the first woman in both positions.

Trattnig accompanied the political rise of the FPÖ under Jörg Haider in the 1980s in responsible positions. The documentation archive of the Austrian resistance sees her as the "once leading liberal ideologist", the newspaper Der Standard describes her as "Haider's political foster mother". Since the BZÖ split off, she has often appeared as a warning for the party's roots. The media likes to refer to her as a liberal “veteran”.

Life

Trattnig grew up as one of a total of eleven siblings in the community of Albeck (Carinthia) . Her father Reinhold Huber was a farmer and in 1949 the leader of the VdU , the predecessor party of the FPÖ. In the Third Reich, Huber was an SA troop leader, local group leader and, finally, country leader. He was captured by the British in 1945 and released in 1947.

She is the sister of the late Carinthian FPÖ politician Alois Huber . Trattnig is married and has four children.

Political career

Trattnig entered the state parliament in Carinthia for the first time in 1979. From 1986 she was the chairwoman of the Carinthian FP Club and in 1989 she became the first woman to become the second state parliament president in Carinthia.

During Norbert Steger's party leadership, Trattnig and her brother, MP Alois Huber, stood out as critics of Steger's relatively liberal course. After Haider's election as national chairman in Innsbruck in 1986, a quick ascent began for Trattnig in the party. She was considered a confidante of Haider. Trattnig always represented a conservative view of the family and rejected the promotion of working women - rather, the family fathers should be better paid so that women could concentrate on their tasks as mothers. In foreign policy, too, she took a tough course, which many interpreted as xenophobic.

However, Trattnig soon got into a dispute with the so-called " Buberlpartie " around Jörg Haider, who tried more and more to differentiate themselves from the German national traditionalists of the FPÖ, to which Trattnig was one. There were several public disputes Trattnig, for example with Gernot Rumpold , Mathias Reichhold , Walter Meischberger or Reinhart Gaugg , which made Trattnig understand that she did not fit into the image of a modern FPÖ they had given. Trattnig himself wrote in an open letter that " Rumpold, Reichhold Gaugg & Co " had been " running around in the media " against them from 1989 onwards .

The disputes reached their climax at the FPÖ party congress in Bad Gastein in 1992. Gernot Rumpold entered the stage in a dirndl disguised as a Trattnig and mocked the Landtag vice-president as "representative of the gold bonnet women". Many observers thought this was an action controlled by Haider. Trattnig then resigned all party offices. In the following years she only worked in an honorary position for the party, including chairing an internal values ​​committee.

She criticized the split of the BZÖ under Jörg Haider several times and appeared as a supporter of the FPÖ in the election campaign for the National Council election in 2008 - she also ran for the National Council, albeit in a hopeless position.

In 2004, the state of Carinthia awarded her the “Carinthian Laurel in Silver” for her commitment to the gold bonnet women. She accepted the award, but stayed away from the award ceremony with Governor Haider.

Even after the reintegration of a large part of the Carinthian BZÖ as FPK into the structures of the Federal FPÖ, Trattnig stayed at a distance from this section of the Freedom Party and asked the state party leader Uwe Scheuch to give up “all Haider manners”.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Election proposal of the FPÖ in the second Carinthian regional constituency for the 2008 National Council election (PDF; 52 kB) on the website of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior
  2. ↑ Magazine date issue 04/2006: Maderlpartie without lobby ( memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.date.at
  3. ↑ Brigitte Bailer-Galanda: Image of women and the representation of women in right-wing extremism ( Memento of the original from January 21, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / doewweb01.doew.at
  4. ↑ Der Standard, March 2, 2010, page 26: "Head of the day"
  5. ↑ See for example date ( memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Kleine Zeitung ( Memento from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Der Standard . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.date.at
  6. ↑ Herbert Lackner: Die Bludordens-Haberer, in: Profile from September 16, 1996, page 34
  7. ↑ diepresse.com on August 21, 2007: Former FPÖ MP Alois Huber died
  8. ↑ AUSTRIA: Louse in fur - DER SPIEGEL 49/1986. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved September 4, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Andy Kaltenbrunner: Die Rotzbuben AG, in profile from May 9, 1994, page 24
  10. ↑ Der Standard, August 6, 1993, page 5
  11. ↑ www.fpoe.at: Trattnig's letter to Josef Lobnig  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 87 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fpoe.at  
  12. ↑ diepresse.com on August 21, 2007: Former FPÖ MP Alois Huber died
  13. ↑ See for example Berliner Zeitung of February 5, 2000: King Cobra in the Cabinet
  14. ↑ Kleine Zeitung, October 12, 2004, page 19
  15. ↑ Interview with the Kleine Zeitung, January 21, 2010: Sorry would be due ( Memento from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Trattnig, Kriemhild
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huber, Kriemhild (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1937