Maria Rauch-Kallat

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Maria Rauch-Kallat (2014)

Maria Rauch-Kallat (born January 31, 1949 in Vienna - Währing ) is an Austrian entrepreneur , management consultant , politician for the ÖVP and was a minister in several federal governments, responsible for the areas of environment, health, youth, family and women.

Life

Maria Rauch-Kallat was born in 1949 as a landlord's daughter. Her father ran the "Beer and Wine House Rudolf Kallat" on the Währinger Gürtel in Vienna. She has two brothers. After graduating from high school (1967) at the Realgymnasium am Parhamerplatz in Vienna- Hernals , she began training as a secondary school teacher, starting with the teaching examination for English. In 1967 she started teaching in a secondary school in Vienna- Favoriten until 1983. In addition to her job, she passed teaching examinations for Russian (1977), geography and economics (1979) and physical exercises (1981). From 1983 to 1992 she was regional manager of the social welfare organization in Vienna (today: Wiener Hilfswerk ). At the same time she was assigned to the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts in the Center for School Experiments with the work area of ​​the integration of the disabled.

In 1983/84 she completed a young entrepreneur training course at WIFI Lower Austria and obtained a trainer diploma. After completing her political career, she completed her training as an academic management consultant at incite (WKÖ-UBIT) and obtained an MBA (2012). She has been working as a management consultant since 2007.

Political activity

Maria Rauch-Kallat was a member of the Federal Council for the ÖVP from 1983 to 1987 and a member of the Vienna state parliament and local council from 1987 to 1992 . In 1992 she was deputy regional party leader of the ÖVP Vienna (until 1998), then general secretary of the federal party (1999 to 2003). A central area of ​​activity was the ÖVP union organization Austrian Women's Movement , in which she was initially a district officer in Vienna-Favoriten , from 1988 country manager and from 2002 to 2010 federal chairwoman. Since 1995 she has been a member of the National Council , with a few interruptions, for example during her tenure as minister , from which she resigned in 2011.

From 1992 to 1994 she held the office of Federal Minister for the Environment , Youth and Family in the Federal Government of Vranitzky III , in 1995 she was Federal Minister for the Environment in the Vranitzky IV Government for around 4 months and finally, in 2003, first two months as Federal Minister without portfolio and from 2003 until 2007 as Federal Minister for Health and Women in the Federal Government Schüssel II . With the inauguration of the Federal Government of Gusenbauer , she resigned from the ministerial office in January 2007. Her successors were Andrea Kdolsky (health, family and youth) and Doris Bures (women).

In 2006 her ministry ordered 9 million flu masks (i.e. more than one mask per Austrian). This purchase was criticized by the Court of Auditors in 2008. The Corruption Prosecutor's Office has been dealing with this since July 2012, because a subsidiary of the Dräger company commissioned at the time paid Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly , her husband, as a consultant.

In addition to her professional and political career, she has held numerous positions in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) since 1976 (see section honorary posts ).

External impact

The statement on the evening of the National Council election in 2002 brought media attention to Rauch-Kallat, when in an interview she thanked “the dear God” for the 42 percent of the ÖVP and for “giving Wolfgang Schüssel the strength”.

She caused a stir with the public statement that all young people would get a “mega-monkey-tits-horny” health passport; this expression was perceived as a parody of the youth language .

Your proposal to reformulate the Austrian national anthem as gender-neutral met with divided opinions in the country.

In autumn 2005 she was awarded the negative Big Brother Award Austria 2005 . The awarding organizations justified their decision by stating that Rauch-Kallat was responsible for "the kick-off for the creeping transformation of citizens into transparent patients ".

family

Maria Rauch-Kallat has two daughters from her first marriage, born in 1970 and 1973, one of whom went blind at the age of four, a fact that brought her to work for the blind and disabled.

She has been married to the large landowner and arms lobbyist Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly since 1994 . Contrary to the marriage-naming law at that time, Rauch-Kallat kept the double name from her first marriage unchanged. This "Lex Rauch-Kallat" led to media and opposition excitement and subsequently to a reform of marriage naming law. In order to be able to marry her second husband in church in 2000, she had her first marriage canonically annulled .

In December 2015 it was announced that Rauch-Kallat and Mensdorff-Pouilly had separated. According to Rauch-Kallat, however, they remain married to each other.

Honorary positions (selection)

  • Establishment of the disabled information center of the social welfare organization (today: Wiener Hilfswerk )
  • Foundation and development of the interest group parents of visually impaired children in the Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired Austria (BSVÖ)
  • Foundation of parental self-help for visually impaired children
  • Foundation and development of the Club alpha ( Hildegard Burjan Institute)
  • Board member in the Dr. Maria Schaumayer Foundation
  • Founding member and honor protection die möwe (association against violence and child abuse)
  • President of the Austrian Paralympic Committee (ÖPC)
  • President of the Austria-Hungary Society together with René Alfons Haiden and others
  • President of the Austrian-Egyptian Society
  • President of the Austrian-Tunisian Society
  • Member of the Presidium of Austrian Sports Aid since June 2018

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Austrian daily Die Presse of August 11, 2002, p. 1: The corrupt republic .
  2. ↑ ÖVP - Because yours is the kingdom. In: Falter, issue 51/03 of December 17, 2003 ( Memento of June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Maria Rauch-Kallat. OECD website, Meeting of Health Ministers, May 2004. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
  4. ↑ Endurance test: “I don't pinch so quickly!” In: Madonna24.at, September 1, 2009. Accessed May 30, 2011.
  5. ↑ See § 93 ABGB in the version 03/1986 to 04/1995, when the different family names of the spouses were just as inadmissible as the name of the divorced partner was neither determined nor used as a common family name, nor could the common family name be added.
  6. ↑ Marriage Cancellation: Separated in the Name of God. In: Der Standard , print edition February 13, 2009. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
  7. ↑ Mensdorff-Pouilly and Rauch-Kallat separately orf.at. Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  8. ↑ The board of directors of Dr. Maria Schaumayer Foundation. ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2011 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. Retrieved May 30, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alphafrauen.org
  9. ↑ möwe Verein - honor protection. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
  10. ^ Maria Rauch-Kallat new president of the ÖPC. ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2010 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. Website of the Austrian Paralympic Committee, undated. Retrieved May 30, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oepc.at
  11. ↑ Strache re-elected as Sporthilfe President . Article dated June 11, 2018, accessed March 20, 2020.
  12. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  13. ↑ 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 Rauch-Kallat, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur and politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council and Federal Minister, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna - Währing