Martina Schenk

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Martina Schenk with Jörg Haider during a press conference of the BZÖ (2008)

Martina Schenk (born August 28, 1972 in Graz ) is an Austrian politician. From 2008 to 2017 she was a member of the Austrian National Council . She started her political career with the FPÖ , moved to the BZÖ in 2008 and to Team Stronach in 2013 . In August 2017 she finally joined the Free List Austria (FLÖ).

education and profession

Schenk attended elementary and secondary school in Semriach from 1978 to 1986 and then completed the local polytechnic course. Between 1987 and 1990 Schenk trained as a retail saleswoman, and between 1991 and 1992 she worked as an accountant. From 1992 she worked for the FPÖ General Secretariat, with a focus on organization and election campaign planning. From 1995 she was entrusted with the organization and implementation of the “Bündnis-Bürger-98-Movement” and worked for Jörg Haider and Susanne Riess-Passer in the Freedom Parliamentary Club . Between 2000 and 2005 Schenk was an advisor to the federal party chairman and the federal manager of the FPÖ and between 2005 and 2008 the federal manager of the FPÖ.

politics

Schenk was a member of the Federal Party Presidium of the FPÖ between 2005 and 2008. In the course of the National Council election campaign in 2008 , Jörg Haider surprisingly presented the previous FPÖ Federal Managing Director Schenk in August 2008 as a BZÖ candidate for the federal election proposal. Schenk named personal motives as the reason for her move to the BZÖ. In particular, the unequal treatment of women at the FPÖ and the failure to comply with agreements were decisive for the change. On October 28, 2008 she was sworn in as a member of the National Council. In the BZÖ parliamentary club, she assumed the role of area spokesperson for equal treatment and women.

In December 2012, Schenk was appointed managing alliance chairwoman of the Styrian BZÖ. She replaced Gerald Grosz , as the BZÖ had dropped to just 1.34% of the votes in the municipal council elections in Graz in 2012 and thus lost two thirds of the votes from 2008. After the KPÖ had become the second strongest party in the municipal council elections in Graz in 2012 , Schenk declared that it could “imagine a 'communism prohibition law' based on the Nazi Prohibition Act and with reference to the atrocities of Stalinism”.

On March 15, 2013 Schenk's move to Team Stronach was announced, for which she moved back into parliament in the 2013 National Council election. In the course of the self-dissolution of the Stronach team before the 2017 National Council election , she switched to the Free List Austria (FLÖ), a spin-off from the FPÖ under Karl Schnell .

Schenk is a member of the Catholic-conservative European party Coalition pour la Vie et la Famille .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ots.at Austrian federal manager Martina Schenk presented as candidate for the BZÖ, August 25, 2008
  2. ↑ Schenk calls for a ban on communism , Kleine Zeitung, December 4, 2012
  3. ↑ Team Stronach gets BZÖ MP Schenk . The press. March 15, 2013. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  4. ↑ orf.at: Lugar and Schenk leave the Stronach team . Article dated August 9, 2017, accessed August 9, 2017
  5. ↑ MPs MRPs in European Parties Financial Exercise 2017.pdf. Retrieved April 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ National Council President Sobotka presented decorations to former members of parliament . OTS notification dated June 3, 2019, accessed June 5, 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME Schenk, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (TS, FPÖ, BZÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz