Eleonora Hostasch

Eleonora Hostasch at the 43rd Federal Party Congress of the SPÖ (2014)

Eleonora "Lore" Hostasch (born July 9, 1944 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician of the SPÖ .

Life

Eleonora Hostasch began her professional career at BAWAG after graduating from the commercial academy in 1962 . There she was from 1975 to 1994 Chairman of the Central Works Council .

In 1987 she was elected to the Vienna City Council and State Parliament. She also became a member of the SPÖ's federal party executive. From 1989–1994 Hostasch was chairwoman of the private workers' union , 1991–1995 also vice-president of the ÖGB . From 1989–94, 1994–97 President of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna (AK Wien) and the Federal Chamber of Labor (BAK), from 1996–97 and 1999–2000, Hostasch was a member of the National Council . From 1997 to 2000 she was Federal Minister for Labor, Health and Social Affairs.

The union of private employees is the only union that from 1989 to 1994 had a woman, Eleonora Hostasch, as chairwoman. From 1994 to 1997, Eleonora Hostasch was the first woman president of the Federal Chamber of Labor in the Chamber of Labor and Employees. Only in 2018, Renate Anderl, was followed by another woman in this role. Since leaving the federal government and returning as a trade union official, Eleonora Hostasch has been referred to in many places as a consensus politician or grande dame of the Austrian social partnership , even across party lines.

She is a member of the Federal Presidium and Honorary Chairman of the GPA-DJP .

Since 2003 she has been the chairwoman of the Central Control Commission of the ÖGB .

Eleonora Hostasch was initially from 2007 to 2012 chairwoman of the government expert group on demography issues of the European Commission , since then she has been a member of the European Union Senior Advisory Board (EU scientific committee) in Brussels .

Awards

• Winner of various social democratic and trade union awards.
• Order of Isabel la Católica (1997)
• Large Decoration of Honor in Gold on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria (2000)
• Honorary Senator of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (2009)
• Viktor Adler badge (2014)
• Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna (2015)

Individual evidence

1. ^ OTS: WKO President Leo Maderthaner, ÖVP
2. ^ GPA-DJP
3. ↑ Chamber of Labor  ( 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.  
4. ^ OTS: Ministry of Social Affairs
5. ↑ EU Advisory Boards
6. ^ OTS: Union of Construction Wood, Social Democratic Freedom Fighters
7. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
8. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
9. ^ University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
10. ↑ TOP: Victor-Adler badge to Hostasch and Häupl , accessed on May 14, 2018

Web links

Commons : Eleonora Hostasch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Eleonora Hostasch on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Entry on Eleonora Hostasch in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Eleonora Hostasch. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
• Radio reports with Eleonora Hostasch in the online archive of the Austrian Mediathek