Maria Berger

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Maria Berger

Maria-Margarethe Berger (born August 19, 1956 in Perg , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian lawyer and politician ( SPÖ ).

She was a member of the European Parliament from 1996 to 2009 , interrupted from 2007 to 2008 by her work as Federal Minister of Justice in the Gusenbauer cabinet . From October 2009 to March 2019 she was a judge at the European Court of Justice .

education

After attending compulsory school (1962 to 1968 in Perg and then until 1970 at the neo-language grammar school of the Kreuzschwestern in Gmunden ), she attended the upper secondary school in Perg from 1970, where she graduated in 1974 . She first studied English and Romance studies for a year at the University of Salzburg , before dedicating herself to studying law and economics at the University of Innsbruck from 1975 , where she was awarded a Dr. jur. completed.

Professional career

Berger began her professional career as a university assistant at the Institute for Public Law and Political Science at the University of Innsbruck from 1979 to 1984. This was followed by positions in the Federal Ministry for Science and Research from 1984 to 1987. From 1988 to 1992 she was first a consultant, then head of the department for integration policy coordination of the Federal Chancellery . After an assignment abroad as Director of the EFTA Surveillance Authority in Geneva and Brussels from 1993 to 1994, she was Vice President of Danube University Krems from 1995 to 1996 , where she subsequently also worked as a lecturer.

Berger became a member of the European Parliament on November 11, 1996 and was subsequently also a member of the European Convention from 2002 to 2003 and of the Austria Convention from June 30, 2003 to August 27, 2004.

Party political functions in the social democracy were in particular: Federal chairman of the young generation of the SPÖ from 1984 to 1987, member of the municipal council of the city of Perg from 1997 to 2009, deputy chairwoman of the SPÖ section in Brussels from 1994 to 1997, head of delegation of the SPÖ MEPs, deputy Club chair of the Social Democratic parliamentary group - club of social democratic members of the National Council, Federal Council and European Parliament from December 11, 2008 to June 7, 2009 and PES coordinator in the Legal Affairs Committee. From 2008 to 2009 she succeeded Caspar Eine as President of the Association of Social Democratic Academics, Intellectuals and Artists .

On January 11, 2007, Berger was sworn in as Minister of Justice of the Federal Government Gusenbauer , for which she resigned her mandate in the European Parliament and only took over again after leaving the Federal Government in December 2008.

On April 22, 2009, she was confirmed as an Austrian judge at the European Court of Justice by the main committee of the National Council after she had been nominated by the federal government the day before. On October 7, 2009, she took up this position. In this post she was confirmed by the Court of Justice in 2012 for a further six years until 2018.

She is a visiting professor at the Institute for European Law at the University of Vienna .

In May 2018 Katharina Pabel was nominated by the Federal Government Kurz I to succeed Maria Berger as a judge at the European Court of Justice from October 2018. After a hearing on June 25, 2018, however, Pabel rejected the nomination without giving reasons. In November 2018, the federal government nominated Andreas Kumin to succeed Maria Berger at the ECJ. He took office on March 20, 2019.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORF ticker.  ( 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. Austrian radio@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.orf.at  
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Kumin succeeds Maria Berger as EU judge . Article dated March 20, 2019, accessed March 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ Introduction of the members. Court of Justice of the European Communities, accessed January 11, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Maria Berger confirmed as ECJ judge . ORF, October 8, 2012; Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  5. ↑ Institute for European Law, International Law and Comparative Law: Hon.-Prof. Dr. Maria Berger
  6. ↑ derStandard.at: Katharina Pabel was nominated by the government as a judge at the European Court of Justice . Article dated May 6, 2018, accessed May 15, 2018.
  7. ↑ Katharina Pabel becomes the new Austrian judge at the ECJ . Parliamentary correspondence dated May 15, 2018, accessed May 15, 2018.
  8. ↑ Linz professor Pabel rejects nomination for ECJ. In: ORF.at . June 25, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Austria proposes Andreas Kumin for vacant judge's position at the ECJ . OTS notification dated November 23, 2018, accessed November 23, 2018.
  10. ↑ Austria's new ECJ judge officially appointed. ORF, March 7, 2019, accessed on the same day.
  11. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berger, Maria-Margarethe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Perg , Upper Austria