Suleyman Zorba

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Süleyman Zorba (born June 16, 1993 in Sürmene , Trabzon Province , Turkey ) is an Austrian politician of the Greens . He has been a member of the National Council since October 23, 2019 .

Life

Süleyman Zorba came to Austria with his parents from Turkey at the age of three. After primary school in Herzogenburg and Traismauer, he attended the Traismauer secondary school. After a year at the higher technical federal teaching and research institute in St. Pölten , he switched to the commercial school in Krems an der Donau in 2009 , which he graduated in 2012. After his military service in 2013, he completed an apprenticeship as an IT technician in 2017, and has been working in this profession in an international company in Vienna since 2017.

politics

He has been active in the environment of the Greens since 2011, among other things he was involved in Greenpeace . Since the municipal council election in 2015 he has been a member of the municipal council of the municipality of Traismauer . In the 2016/17 school year he was a member of the regional student council in Vienna. Since 2017 he has been a member of the regional committee of the Greens Lower Austria, since 2019 he has been a board member of the Green Youth of Lower Austria. In the state elections in 2018 , he was ranked twelfth on the state list.

In the 2019 National Council election, he ran for the Greens behind top candidate Elisabeth Götze and Ulrike Fischer in third place in the list in the Lower Austria electoral district . On October 23, 2019, at the beginning of the XXVII. Legislative period as the youngest member of the Green Parliamentary Club as a member of the Austrian National Council . In the Green Parliamentary Club , he became the area spokesman for network policy, digitization and teaching.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Süleyman Zorba on the website of the Austrian Parliament
  2. ↑ a b c meineabektiven.at: Süleyman Zorba . Retrieved October 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d Zorba: From Greenpeace to the Greens. In: ORF.at . January 23, 2018, accessed October 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Süleyman Zorba - Back to the Greens. In: zurueckzudengruenen.at. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ National Council election 2019: Lower Austria state election proposals. In: bmi.gv.at. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Greens are bigger than ever: Parliamentary Club starts work. In: The press . October 14, 2019, accessed October 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Greens introduce their area spokespersons. In: The press . January 17, 2020, accessed January 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zorba, Suleyman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (Greens), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Sürmene , Trabzon Province , Turkey