Petra Steger

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Petra Steger (2019)

Petra Steger (born October 4, 1987 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician ( FPÖ ) and has been a member of the Austrian National Council since October 2013 .

Life

education

After attending elementary school and secondary school , she passed the Matura with distinction in 2005 . She first began to study law at the University of Vienna , but broke off her studies in 2007 and switched to the Vienna University of Economics , where she began studying business law and international business administration . She did not graduate.

politics

She cited a “passion for the political” as the reason for her entry into politics. Her father Norbert Steger , who was Vice Chancellor and Minister of Economics under Fred Sinowatz for the FPÖ in the first red-blue coalition , advised her not to enter politics.

Petra Steger has been a member of the FPÖ since 2008. In October 2010 she was sworn in as a district councilor in Vienna's Meidling district and held this position until 2013. She has been part of the district party leadership since 2013, and in 2014 she was elected deputy district party leader of the FPÖ Meidling.

Between 2012 and 2016 she was a presenter and editor at FPÖ TV , a party-owned propaganda channel that publishes videos on YouTube , among other places .

In October 2013, after helping out in the National Council election campaign , Steger moved into the National Council as a free member. Steger works as a sports and youth spokeswoman for her parliamentary group. She named her own future and the issue of security as the greatest concern of the youth. She considers an upgrading of teaching (teaching with Matura ) to be necessary. With the help of a bonus system for entrepreneurs, additional company apprenticeships are to be created.

Petra Steger supports a headscarf ban in the public sector and would also like to see a ban on schools and universities. That would have been a position of your party for a long time. Austria should follow the example of other countries in Europe. When asked if young women have a harder time in politics, she replied that anyone with willingness and talent can get a chance in politics. That's why she also rejects quotas : “I don't want to sit in a position knowing that I am fulfilling a quota. I want to know that I actually earned this position. "

In June 2017, she spoke out against a “Sports Promotion Act” passed by the ÖVP / SPÖ. During the election campaign for the 2017 National Council election, she participated in a FPÖ video on the Internet, which addressed hate on the Internet against her party and was intended to show that - according to the FPÖ - it is "above all the freedom people" who are "showered with hate postings" .

Sports

In addition to her career as a politician, Steger is also active in sports. She works as a basketball player and team captain at the women's club Flying-Foxes SVS Post , a club in the first Austrian women's division. With her club she has been Austrian national champion twelve times in a row and winner of the cup nine times in a row. In addition, she reached third place in the CEWL three times and was named Most Valuable Player three times .

Web links

Commons : Petra Steger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Laila Daneshmandi: That's what the youth speakers think about Austria's offspring. Courier, July 10, 2017, accessed December 19, 2017 .
  2. ^ Pros and cons of the headscarf in the public service. Courier, January 9, 2017, accessed December 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jelena Gučanin: Petra Steger: “I don't think much of Jörg Haider”. Wienerin, December 18, 2015, accessed on December 19, 2017 .
  4. ^ Fritz Neumann: Sports funding on the long bench. Der Standard, November 7, 2017, accessed December 19, 2017 .
  5. ^ "Right-wing extremists or idiots": FPÖ turns "Hate on the Net" clip. Die Presse , September 6, 2017, accessed on December 19, 2017 .
  6. ^ FPÖ politicians read out hate postings received in video. In: DerStandard.at . September 6, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Freedom in the role of victim . In: Kronen Zeitung . October 2, 2017, p.  10 .
personal data
SURNAME Steger, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna