Sabine Scheffknecht

Sabine Scheffknecht (2017)

Sabine Scheffknecht (* 3. March 1978 in Bregenz as Sabine Sinz ) is an Austrian politician ( NEOS ), and Business Administration. Scheffknecht has been a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament since 2014 .

She has been married since 2009 and lives with her husband and their two children in the market town of Lustenau .

education and profession

Sabine Scheffknecht was born on March 3, 1978 in the Vorarlberg state capital Bregenz and grew up in Höchst on Lake Constance. After attending compulsory schools in Höchst, she graduated from the commercial academy in Lustenau and graduated there in 1997. From 1997 to 1998, Scheffknecht then worked at Ortner und Partner , an event organization and marketing agency in Dornbirn . From 1998 she was responsible for the areas of controlling, event organization, water ski school, camping site and harbor at Rohrspitz Yachting Salzmann GmbH in Fußach .

Sabine Scheffknecht (2012)

Between 2001 and 2005, Sabine Scheffknecht studied international corporate management at the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences . In the 2003/04 winter semester she spent a semester abroad in Manchester , and in 2005 she also won the NewWay Award as part of her studies . In 2006 she finally moved to Franke Washroom Systems in Hard , where she was a member of the division management and head of human resources management from 2007 . In 2013 she gave up this position in favor of her political office. From 2009 to 2015 graduated Sabine Scheffknecht at the English Leeds Beckett University , a Ph.D. - Studies at the Faculty of Economics and Law there. She received her doctorate in July 2015 with a doctoral thesis on “Bureaucracy and Red tape. How multinational Enterprises and their employees may approach this phenomenon. A case study ".

In 2017, Sabine Scheffknecht and her husband took over the wine rack and wine cabinet manufacturer COVINI in Klaus . The takeover was carried out by Scheffknecht Beteiligungs GmbH, in which Sabine Scheffknecht and her husband have different shares, and was justified by the fact that “politics is not a profession in the long run”.

Political activity

Even before her time in active party politics, Scheffknecht was active in a political organization. From 2010 to 2014 she was a board member of Junge Industrie , a group of young executives from Austrian industrial companies.

From December 2013 to March 2014, Sabine Scheffknecht was initially deputy state spokeswoman for NEOS in Vorarlberg. In the run-up to the 2014 state elections , Scheffknecht took over the leadership of the Vorarlberg NEOS as state spokeswoman on March 22, 2014 and was then elected as the top candidate for the state elections by the general assembly. Like her party colleague Martina Pointner, she made it onto the NEOS state list and was thus sworn in for the first time on October 15, 2014 as one of two NEOS members in the Vorarlberg state parliament in its 30th legislative period . In the state parliament Scheffknecht acted as parliamentary leader of the NEOS, which with only two members could not form its own state parliament club.

At the NEOS general meeting on June 23, 2018, Sabine Scheffknecht was elected to the national board of NEOS. After the state elections in 2019 , in which NEOS was able to easily gain, the party is represented in the state parliament of the 31st legislative period with three members and thus achieved club strength. Scheffknecht, who had once again entered the state election as the NEOS top candidate, subsequently became club chairwoman of the newly founded NEOS state parliament club.

Web links

Commons : Sabine Scheffknecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sabine Scheffknecht on the website of the Vorarlberger Landtag.
• Biography of Sabine Scheffknecht in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.
• Presentation of Sabine Scheffknecht on the NEOS Vorarlberg website.
• Sabine Scheffknecht at www.meineabektiven.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scheffknecht: "In the long run, politics is not a profession". ORF Vorarlberg , March 1, 2017, accessed on March 2, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Scheffknecht new to the NEOS federal board. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . June 23, 2018, accessed June 24, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Scheffknecht becomes NEOS club chairwoman. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . October 23, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .