Mireille Ngosso

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Mireille Ngosso (* 1980 in Kinshasa , Democratic Republic of the Congo ) is an Austrian doctor and politician ( Social Democratic Party of Austria ). Ngosso has been a member of the District Council of the Inner City since December 2015 and was elected Deputy District Head for the Inner City (Vienna) in June 2018 .

Life

Mireille Ngosso's parents were both politically active in the Congo and were persecuted. The father is a socialist. When she was three years old, her parents fled with her from the regime of the dictator Mobuto, initially to neighboring Angola , and from there to Europe. In 1984 the family got asylum in Austria and settled in Vienna. According to Ngosso, they were supported by the SPÖ and the Catholic Church.

The parents tried to raise them in an “exaggerated” Austrian way. Only German and French were spoken at home. She first attended high school, but dropped out of school because of problems with teachers. She worked and planned a career as a jazz singer. Nina Simone was her role model . At an evening grammar school, she made up her Matura and decided to study medicine. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Kingston University in London . From 2005 to 2016 she studied human medicine at the Medical University of Vienna . Mireille Ngosso has been training as a general surgeon at the Hietzing Hospital since 2019 ; she is married and has a son.

Political activity

Mireille Ngosso has been active in the Vienna SPÖ since 2010. From 2011 to 2015 she was in the Federal Press Service in the Federal Chancellery . From 2013 to 2017 she was the chairwoman of the Young Generation Inner City. In 2015 she became a district councilor. She has been the women's chairwoman of the SPÖ since 2018, the representative of the young generation and deputy party leader of the SPÖ Innere Stadt. In 2018 she was elected deputy district chairman. This makes her the first female politician of African origin in an elected office in Austria. Your most important concern is the expansion of affordable living space. The first district must remain a residential district. As a further focus, she named improved health care.

In the internal election for the top candidate of the SPÖ for the first district for the 2020 district representative election , she did not receive the necessary majority with 45.2%.

Racist Hostility

From the beginning of her political career, Mireille Ngosso was exposed to racist remarks. According to her own statements, she first felt threatened in 2000 after a black and blue government had been elected in Austria . Meanwhile, hateful attacks against them have also spread to the internet. Her party colleagues Muna Duzdar and Saya Ahmad had also experienced discrimination. Even so, Mireille Ngosso remains confident. It is a sign of the cosmopolitanism of the City of Vienna that she was elected to this position as a woman “with a visible migration background”.

Honors

At the first Black Austrian Awards , which were presented for the first time in 2018, Ngosso received the award in the political commitment category .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ralf Leonhard: Portrait of City Councilor Mireille Ntwa Ngosso. Socialized with Sissi films. In: Taz, December 22, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d e Mireille Ngosso: Eine Rote mit Drive , Standard, 11 August 2018
  3. ↑ Dr Mireille Ngosso | SPÖ Vienna. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  4. ^ Hate and Stupidity - A Dangerous Mixture , Kleine Zeitung, April 14, 2018
  5. ↑ Mireille Ngosso becomes deputy head of the 1st district of Vienna , Kurier, April 17, 2018
  6. ^ A b Vice District Leader Ngosso: "Signal for the cosmopolitanism of this city" , in: Die Presse, April 11, 2018
  7. ↑ SPÖ base in Vienna's first district opposes Vice District Chief Ngosso , Der Standard, March 3, 2020
  8. ^ Contrast editors: This woman has to live with the hatred of the racists. April 24, 2018, accessed April 8, 2019 (German).
  9. ^ Hate wave on the net against the new vice district chief , today, April 13, 2018
  10. ↑ Salzburger Nachrichten: Mireille Ngosso - Vienna's first African-Austrian Vice-district chief. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Black Austrian Awards 2018 , accessed on June 3, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ngosso, Mireille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Doctor and Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ)
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Kinshasa