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Liese Prokop (2006)

Liese Prokop (born March 27, 1941 in Vienna as Liese Sykora , † December 31, 2006 in St. Pölten ) was an Austrian athlete and politician ( ÖVP ). Most recently she was Minister of the Interior .

Life

Liese Prokop grew up in Korneuburg and Tulln , where she in 1959 at the High School Tulln their Matura took off. She broke off the subsequent study of physical education and biology in Vienna in 1962 after the death of her father. Then she worked as a youth worker and began her sporting career.

She was married to the trainer Gunnar Prokop since 1965 and was the mother of two sons and a daughter, the handball player Karin Prokop . She was also the sister of the athlete Maria Sykora and the aunt of the ski racer Thomas Sykora .

On December 31, 2006, Liese Prokop died on the way to the hospital of an aorta tear . She was buried in Annaberg .

Awards

Athletic career

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , she achieved the silver medal in the pentathlon behind the German Ingrid Mickler-Becker , after she had already become academic world champion in the pentathlon at the Universiade in Tokyo in 1967 . In 1969 she set a world record with 5352 points and became European champion in Athens . In that year she was also voted Austrian Sportswoman of the Year .

The national records of the 50-time Austrian champion held in part for a very long time. Her best marks in long jump were only broken in 1998 and in shot put in 1999.

Your sporting achievements are immortalized in the federal sports center Südstadt on the "Wall of Fame" and in the name of the square in front of it "Liese-Prokop-Platz".

Political career

After finishing her active sports career, she became a member of the state parliament of the ÖVP in the Lower Austrian state parliament on November 20, 1969 . She was one of the first lateral entrants in politics in Austria . As Lower Austrian Provincial Councilor from 1981 to 1992 under Governor Siegfried Ludwig , sport and family were her main responsibilities. From 1992 she was Deputy Governor of Governor Erwin Pröll . In this function she was involved in promoting sporting and cultural activities in Lower Austria.

After the surprising resignation of Ernst Strasser as interior minister on 10 December 2004 Liese Prokop was on 22 December 2004 by Federal President Heinz Fischer on a proposal by Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel was the first woman in that office sworn in (see also Federal Government dish II ). During her term of office the implementation of the merger of police and gendarmerie began by her predecessor .

Liese Prokop was criticized during her tenure several times because of their stance on human rights violations and racism within its operational area, especially in the case of four policemen abused Gambiers Bakary J. In her tenure was also a controversial amendment to the Austrian asylum and alien law, from refugee aid Asyl in Not , has been sharply criticized by SOS Mitmensch and numerous other institutions of Austrian civil society.

In May 2006, Prokop saw a study commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior as proof that 45% of Muslims in Austria were unwilling to integrate. The author of the study, Mathias Rohe , distanced himself from this interpretation.

In October 2006 she was given the Austrian negative Big Brother Award in the "Politics" category because of the opening of numerous video surveillance systems during the election campaign and the procurement of automatic license plate readers for motorways .

Women's award and scholarship

  • Since 2007, the Liese Prokop Women's Prize has recognized three women from Lower Austria in each of the four categories of business / art, culture and media / science / social affairs and generations , and one woman has been awarded a main prize worth 10,000 euros.
  • In memory of Liese Prokop, the Austrian Integration Fund awards the Liese Prokop Scholarship every semester to socially needy students with a migration background who are in the pre-study course or in a regular course or who have their studies completed in their country of origin validated in Austria. The up to 40 scholarship holders receive 300 euros per month as well as the costs for the pre-study course, tuition or nostrification fees.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bottom right: "Gold and bronze for Lisl Prokop" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 2, 1967, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ "Cavaliersdelikt Tortter" ai statement on the Bakary J. case ( Memento from February 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ no-racism.net: The Asylum Bet - Beat a Minister! ( Memento of April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , published June 1, 2005, accessed March 27, 2016
  4. ↑ Asylum in Need: NGOs demand: Prokop has to go. Retrieved March 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Procopius, Liese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sykora, Liese (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sportswoman and politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2006
Place of death St. Poelten , Austria