Markus Koza

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Markus Koza (born December 12, 1970 in Linz ) is an Austrian trade union official and politician for the Greens . He has been a member of the National Council since October 23, 2019 .

Life

After primary school in Hall in Tirol, Markus Koza attended the Reithmanngasse secondary school in Innsbruck and the commercial academy in Villach , where he graduated in 1989 . He then began a masters degree in economics at the Vienna University of Economics , which he in 2002 with a thesis on the topic of freedom in the factories: workers' self-management in Spain from 1936 to 1939 as Magister completed. During his studies, from 1995 to 1997, he was an alternative consultant and member of the Federal Representation of the Austrian Students' Union (ÖH) as well as parliamentary group spokesman for the GRAS ( Greens & Alternative Students ).

Since 1999 he has been employed by the association IGA (Institute for the Development of Societal Alternatives), where he has been chairman of the works council since 2000. In 1999 he became federal secretary of the AUGE / UG (Alternative Greens and Independent Trade Unionists), in 2003 a member of the federal board of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions (ÖGB) and in 2011 chairman of the independent trade unionists in the ÖGB (UG).

politics

As a district councilor, Koza is a member of the district council in the Vienna district of Wieden , where he succeeded Philip König as the Greens' club chairman in 2018.

In the 2019 National Council election, he ran for the Greens in sixth place on the federal list and eighth in the Vienna electoral district . On October 23, 2019, at the beginning of the XXVII. Legislative period sworn in as a member of the Austrian National Council . As part of the coalition negotiations for the formation of a government in 2019 , he negotiated in the main group Social Security, New Justice and Poverty Reduction. In the Green Parliamentary Club he became the area spokesman for labor and social affairs.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Markus Koza on the website of the Austrian Parliament
  2. ↑ a b c meineabektiven.at: Markus Koza . Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  3. ^ ÖGB: Austrian Trade Union Federation - Mag. Markus Koza. In: Austrian Federation of Trade Unions . Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
  4. ^ Yvonne Brandstetter: Green Wieden: Green Club Chairman Markus Koza in conversation. November 5, 2018, accessed October 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ National Council election 2019: The Greens - The Green Alternative (GRÜNE). In: bmi.gv.at. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ National Council election 2019: Vienna state election proposals. In: bmi.gv.at. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ The names of more than 100 turquoise-green negotiators have been determined. In: DerStandard.at . November 15, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
  8. ^ Government negotiations ÖVP-Greens. In: Upper Austrian news . Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Greens introduce their area spokespersons. In: The press . January 17, 2020, accessed January 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Koza, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (Greens), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz