Rudolf Anschober

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Rudolf Anschober (January 2020)

Rudolf "Rudi" Anschober (born November 21, 1960 in Wels ) is an Austrian politician ( The Greens ). He has been Federal Minister for Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection in the Federal Government Short II since January 2020 . Previously, he served from October 2003 to January 2020 as a Provincial Member of the Upper Austrian Government . On April 13, 2021, he announced his resignation as Federal Minister “for health reasons” in a personal statement; his office is expected to be handed over to his successor Wolfgang Mückstein on April 19, 2021 be handed over.

Life

Rudi Anschober attended elementary school in Schwanenstadt and the federal high school in Vöcklabruck . After graduating from the Pedagogical Academy in Salzburg , he was a primary school teacher from 1983 to 1990. In the meantime he completed an editorial course at the Economic Development Institute in Linz and wrote for regional green media. In 1990 he moved to the National Council for the Greens . In parliament he was the traffic, safety and nuclear spokesman for the Greens.

From 1997 to 2003, Anschober was a member of the Upper Austrian state parliament , and from October 23, 2003 he was a member of the Upper Austrian state government . From October 23, 2003 to October 22, 2015 he was State Councilor for the Environment, Energy, Water and Consumer Protection. In autumn 2012 he was on sick leave for three months due to burnout . From October 23, 2015, Anschober was the regional councilor for environmental protection, water law, food control and integration (regional governments Pühringer V and Stelzer ).

Anschober is also active as an author . In 2004 the book was published green governed - a political diary about the first year of the first green government participation , in 2007 the climate revolution was published. This is how we save the world (2007, together with Petra Ramsauer ), and in 2011 the green economic miracle appeared: How the energy revolution works and how everyone benefits from it .

"Training instead of deportation" initiative

In 2018, Anschober launched the “Training instead of deportation” initiative to keep asylum seekers working as apprentices in the country. The aim of the corresponding petition is to implement the German “3plus2” model. This provides that apprentices are not deported during their mostly three-year training and the first two full years of work. The asylum procedure continues, the model causes tolerance for those affected and thus security for the training and the first two years of work. The initiative is supported by both companies and celebrities.

As the “patron saint of asylum apprentices”, the Viennese city newspaper “ Falter ” named him People of the Year 2018.

He was able to achieve a partial success at the end of 2019, when the so-called deportation freeze for apprentices until the end of their training came into force on December 28 with the amendment to the Aliens Police Act. However, contrary to a legal opinion by Adel-Naim Reyhani and Manfred Nowak commissioned by Anschober, the Administrative Court ruled that any economic interest in apprentices remaining in Austria must not be included in the balancing of interests under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights .

Minister of Health

In the course of the concluded government negotiations after the 2019 National Council election between the ÖVP and the Greens, it was announced that Anschober would resign from his position as regional councilor and become health and social minister in the Federal Government Brief II . On January 7, 2020 he was sworn in by Federal President Van der Bellen as Federal Minister for Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection. Stefan Kaineder succeeded him as regional councilor in Upper Austria .

After the 2020 amendment to the Federal Ministries Act came into force , some ministries were redesigned. Then, on January 29, 2020, Anschober was sworn in as Federal Minister for Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection. In February 2020, Anschober appointed Stefan Wallner as Secretary General in “his” ministry, starting in March 2020. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria , Anschober's popularity figures rose significantly in the meantime. As a result of various mishaps in his ministry, the lifting of the measures of the first lockdown by the Constitutional Court in May 2020 and a strongly criticized communication during the crisis, his survey values ​​began to decline significantly from autumn 2020, as did those of the entire government.

Health problems eventually led to the resignation of Anschober as minister. At a press conference on April 13, 2021, at which he announced his resignation after 462 days in office, Anschober spoke of a circulatory collapse that he suffered due to overwork after Easter. In addition, he now has rising blood pressure and sugar levels as well as the onset of tinnitus . He made it clear that it wasn't a burnout . During this time and until his successor Wolfgang Mückstein was sworn in , which is planned for April 19, 2021, the minister was and will be represented by Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler .

Private

Anschober is in a relationship with the journalist and author Petra Ramsauer (* 1969).

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Anschober  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anchober nominated as Minister of Social Affairs. In: ooe. ORF.at . January 1, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020 : “Now it's fixed: the Upper Austrian Provincial Councilor Rudi Anschober from the Greens will be the next Minister for Social Affairs. The trained elementary school teacher has been politically active since the 1980s; he came into politics through his anti-nuclear engagement. "
  2. ↑ ORF at / Agencies red: Confirmed: Anschober resigns. April 13, 2021, accessed April 13, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Burn-out: Rudi Anschober takes time out. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , from September 20, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ Training instead of deportation. Initiative website, undated, accessed on January 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ Nina Horaczek : The patron saint of asylum apprentices. Person of the year 2018: Rudi Anschober, the green state councilor for integration, opposes turquoise-blue refusal to integrate with a broad alliance across Austria. In: Falter.at , December 18, 2018, accessed on January 30, 2020.
  6. ↑ Federal law amending the Aliens Police Act 2005, Federal Law Gazette I No. 110/2019 , December 27, 2019 ( NR : GP XXVII Initiative IA 87 / A ).
  7. ↑ Rainer Hilbrand: Anschober: Deportation stop for apprentices in force from today. Apprentice conference on details and consequences of the new regulation on January 21st. In: salzTV. Rainer Hilbrand, December 28, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Niklas Kirchner: Legal opinion on “Employment of asylum seekers in shortage occupations and the admissibility of return decisions”. July 10, 2018, accessed October 10, 2020 .
  9. ↑ VwGH, Ro 2019/01/0003, February 28, 2019, https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokument.wxe?Abfrage=Vwgh&Dokumentnummer=JWT_2019010003_20190228J00 , accessed on October 10, 2020.
  10. ↑ Personnel raids in the state parliament. In: ooe. ORF.at . January 30, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Members of the government sworn in with new responsibilities. In: ORF.at , January 29, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020.
  12. ↑ Stefan Wallner from March General Secretariat in the Ministry of Social Affairs. In: The press . February 18, 2020, accessed February 18, 2020 .
  13. ↑ faz.net August 28, 2020: Kurz plays the accordion
  14. ↑ OGM / APA confidence index federal politicians January 2021. In: OGM. January 15, 2021, accessed on January 17, 2021 (Austrian German).
  15. ↑ Sebastian Panny: Burnout Syndrome or not? Why did Rudolf Anschober resign? In: Moment.at. Moment magazine, accessed April 13, 2021 .
  16. ↑ Pühringer was one of the first to congratulate. heute.at, January 9, 2020, accessed on July 14, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Anschober, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anschober, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (Greens), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wels (city)