Lisa Rücker

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Lisa Rücker (born May 10, 1965 in Salzburg ) is a former politician of the Greens , city ​​councilor and vice mayor of Graz .

Professional career

Lisa Rücker has a diploma in social work and social management. Her political roots lie in the autonomous women's movement in Graz. She was a long-time employee of the Frauenservice association and opened the neighborhood café Palaver in 1999 , an employment project for long-term unemployed women until 2003, which was renamed Palaverconnected in 2003 and, in addition to the café, also offers computers and rooms for seminars.

Since 2003 Rücker has been a councilor of the Greens in Graz and since 2005 she has been chairwoman of the control committee of the city of Graz. Her political priorities were environmental and climate protection, transport planning and business operations. She is a member of the Green Economy and since 2005 of the Greens Andersrum . In the 2008 elections , her party achieved high growth rates, and in March 2008 Rücker became a city councilor and, in a coalition with the ÖVP, the first “Green” vice mayor of the city of Graz. Lisa Rücker, who mainly uses the bicycle as an everyday means of transport, was particularly committed to cycling in Graz . The marking of large no-parking areas in front of protective paths in 2009 as well as the implementation of traffic calming projects or the first shared space in an Austrian city and the expansion of new area-wide parking zones in 2010 brought her criticism from some motorists. In 2011, she introduced traffic lights that pedestrians and cyclists prefer and opposed a green wave for motorists called for by the Styrian Regional Transport Councilor Gerhard Kurzmann . On May 30, 2012, Mayor Siegfried Nagl terminated the coalition with the Rücker's Greens due to various differences of opinion. As a result, some of their projects were stopped shortly before the municipal council elections. After the election , in which her party lost slightly, the ÖVP took a new coalition path and Lisa Rücker lost her post as Vice Mayor to Martina Schröck from the SPÖ . However, she stayed in the city government with new resorts.

Rücker has been responsible for the following municipal departments since January 2013:

  • Health department
  • Cultural office
  • Environment Agency
  • Cultural participation, museums

On October 1, 2015, Rücker announced that she would retire as a politician at the end of the legislative period - for personal reasons in order to plan a new chapter in life. She can then imagine working for "Politics and Democracy", even if not as a politician. She sees cultural policy as a focus of her work for the next few years. "It's about living together ... shaping that people learn and have opportunities to approach one another through culture ..." When asked about election results (e.g. Upper Austria ), she sees the need "between populism and popular politics .." . to be able to give answers in a more understandable and yet differentiated way.

Today she works as a political adult educator, moderator and hiking coach.

Private

Lisa Rücker was born as the eldest of five children and the daughter of Fritz Rücker, a former ÖVP councilor in Salzburg. After completing her training in Innsbruck, she moved to Graz in 1987. She was married for years and has two daughters from this time (* 1993 and 1996). Over time, she realized that she was becoming increasingly attracted to women. She ended the marriage in 2004 and moved in with her new partner. She took care of the children together with her ex-husband. When she was in 2006, top candidate of their party for the local elections, she opted for a public coming-out . The reasons she gave were to prevent her open lesbian life from being used as a means by opponents on the one hand, and for political reasons on the other hand, because she would also like to campaign for equality for homosexuals .

"My outing had good gender-political reasons, and from the large amount of feedback I have received, I know that this was an important contribution to making lesbians and gays more visible."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ I would like to have all of Graz as a shared space , Der Standard on October 21, 2011
  2. ↑ Graz is to become almost the entire parking zone , ORF online on November 7, 2008.
  3. ↑ Red card for green wave in Graz. Kleine Zeitung , May 17, 2011, archived from the original on March 10, 2014 .;
  4. ↑ Nagl: "I want to go a new way now". Kleine Zeitung , May 31, 2012, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Nagl blows the bus at the shepherd's monastery. Kleine Zeitung , November 8, 2012, accessed June 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Resort distribution ( Memento of 13 February 2013, Internet Archive ) Homepage of the city of Graz
  7. ^ Graz: Rücker leaves politics , orf.at, October 1, 2015, accessed October 1, 2015.

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SURNAME Rücker, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (The Greens)
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg