Sebastian Bohrn Mena

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Sebastián Bohrn Mena (2015)
Sebastián Bohrn Mena (2015)

Sebastian Bohrn Mena (born March 21, 1985 in Vienna ) is an activist , columnist and author as well as a former Austrian politician ( SPÖ , NOW - List Pilz ).

family

Sebastian Bohrn Mena was born in Vienna as a descendant of political refugees from Chile , he belongs to the second generation of Chileans in exile. His father Karl Bohrn is an Austrian psychotherapist and clinical health psychologist . His mother Aida Bohrn, born as Aida Alejandra Mena Olivares in Vicuña , was awarded the Federal Badge of Honor by the Republic of Austria and is also a psychotherapist for services to the community . She is the daughter of the Chilean politician Gregorio Mena Barrales, a supporter of President Salvador Allende , who served as socialist governor of the province of Puente Alto from 1970 until his deposition in 1973 by the military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet . The maternal family was able to flee to Austria in 1975 after their father had been interned in the Chacabuco desert camp for two years. Sebastian Bohrn Mena describes the escape story of his own family as strongly shaping and largely guiding his professional and political career.

education and profession

Bohrn Mena completed a commercial apprenticeship as a bookseller in the Vienna bookstore Kuppitsch from 2000 to 2003 . From 2003 to 2005 he worked as a regional organization officer at the Austrian Employees' Federation. During this time, Sebastian Bohrn Mena completed his vocational matriculation examination while working .

From 2005 to 2008 he worked as an assistant to the management and in project coordination for addiction prevention at the Institute for Social and Health Psychology, a group practice founded by his parents in 1994 and a non-university research institution. There he worked in trauma research. In 2008 he was appointed managing director. In September 2004 he started his degree in corporate management at the Vienna University of Applied Sciences . He closed it in June 2008 with the graduation ceremony for Master of Economics from. Sebastian Bohrn Mena then moved to the Sigmund Freud University of Vienna (SFU), where he started the doctoral program in psychotherapy studies in September 2008 . His doctorate dealt with the effects of flight and extreme trauma on subsequent generations. He completed it in July 2010 with distinction.

In the meantime Bohrn Mena completed the civil service at the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (July 2008 to April 2009). In 2009 he became university assistant prae doc and personal advisor at the chair of university professor Thomas Druyen at his home university. From 2010 he worked at the Institute for Comparative Wealth Culture and Wealth Psychology at the SFU as head of communication and cooperation agendas. In August 2011 Sebastian Bohrn Mena founded SBM Consult Unternehmensberatung , in April 2012 he was appointed director of the adult education center in Penzing . In addition, he also coordinated the socio-political event series of the Wiener Volkshochschulen GmbH (VHS Vienna). From the end of 2017 to autumn 2018 Bohrn Mena was the area spokesman for animal welfare and children's rights in the parliamentary club of the Liste Jetzt .

Sebastian Bohrn Mena has been the full-time managing director of Ökosozialen Zukunft GmbH , a consulting company that focuses on social and ecological change, since November 2019 . As a part-time job, he regularly publishes comments in various newspapers, including Die Furche , Der Standard and Wiener Zeitung . Since January 2019 he has also been a permanent columnist and political commentator for the daily newspaper Austria and the associated broadcaster oe24. On a case-by-case basis, he is active in social coaching and advising private individuals, non-profit associations and initiatives.

Voluntary and political engagement

Sebastian Bohrn Mena has been volunteer and politically active since he was 16. During his apprenticeship, he worked, among other things, as the youth chairman of the Christian trade unionist group in Vienna, and later, during his studies, as the student spokesman in the Academic Senate of the Sigmund Freud Private University. He also held numerous honorary posts thereafter; Among other things, he acted as chairman of the social democratic business association in Klosterneuburg, as a member of the Lower Austrian provincial board of the Association of Social Democratic Academics, and on the board of Kinderfreunde Penzing. From 2009 to 2017 he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria.

In 2015 Sebastian Bohrn Mena ran for the SPÖ in the state and municipal council elections in Vienna in 2015 , but was unable to win an internal party preferential vote campaign. In the National Council election in Austria in 2017 , he ran for a National Council mandate from the Peter Pilz list , which he just barely managed to achieve. He then became a member of the Pilz parliamentary club and its area spokesman for children's rights and animal welfare. After a personal falling out with the party founder Peter Pilz , Bohrn Mena left the party in July 2018. He was then dismissed from his position without notice by the parliamentary club on the grounds that he had behaved in a way that was harmful to the club. He subsequently announced steps under labor law. In September 2019, the legal dispute, which had generated media attention for months, was brought to an end with a court settlement.

In February 2019, Bohrn Mena presented the program developed by independent experts for the Austrian animal welfare referendum , which he initially served as managing director and from October 2019 as honorary chairman. In June 2020 Sebastian Bohrn Mena was appointed to the Austrian Council for Sustainable Development as a council member .

Because of his public support for refugees, Sebastian Bohrn Mena is attacked by right-wing extremists and is confronted with racist hate postings and death threats.

Publications

  • " Eating better. How we shape the world through our plates ", with a foreword by Jane Goodall , 2020, Goldegg Verlag , Vienna
  • " Influences of biographical development on the process of inheritance and inheritance ." in Druyen , T .: " Responsibility and probation . A wealth-cultural study ", 2012, Springer Verlag , Wiesbaden

Private life

Sebastian Bohrn Mena is married to the trade unionist and author Veronika Bohrn Mena (née Kronberger ) and has a son. He lives with his family in Vienna.

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Curriculum Vitae Dr. Sebastian Bohrn Mena. In: Website of the Institute for Social and Health Psychology. June 2012, accessed December 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Eat better. Accessed April 29, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Karl Bohrn. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Aida Bohrn. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ State Secretary Marek presented Aida Bohrn with federal decorations. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ 'Yo le negué la mano a Pinochet'. February 21, 2013, accessed March 3, 2020 (Spanish).
  7. ^ Vienna: grandson of a Chilean socialist running for the SPÖ «M-MEDIA. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  8. ↑ ORF radio library. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b c d e person. In: Sebastian Bohrn Mena's personal website. Retrieved December 3, 2018 .
  10. ↑ team. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Stefan Beig: Traumatized, not unqualified. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Jürgen Wiesenhütter: Excerpt from the PSYNDEX database on refugees and psychology. In: www.zpid.de. Leibniz Center for Psychological Information and Documentation, November 2015, accessed on March 3, 2020 (German).
  13. ↑ Sebastian Bohrn Mena. In: Website of the Institute for Social and Health Psychology. Retrieved December 3, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Kolba / Bohrn Mena: Smoke-free future for our children instead of black and blue smoke. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Bohrn Mena: Animal experiments must finally be reduced! Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Eco-social future - For an ecological and social world. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Die FURCHE: Systematic lack of transparency. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Why a turnaround is needed in agriculture - derStandard.at. Retrieved April 22, 2020 (Austrian German).
  19. ↑ The climate crisis in the cheap meat system - derStandard.at. Retrieved April 22, 2020 (Austrian German).
  20. ↑ Sebastian Bohrn Mena: Resist hypocrisy. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Sebastian Bohrn Mena: There is another way. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  22. ↑ a b oe24.TV expert threatened with murder. March 4, 2020, accessed March 4, 2020 .
  23. ↑ FCG-Bohrn: Equal opportunities for university and technical college degrees must come! Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  24. ↑ SWV-Bohrn Mena: ÖVP are not interested in undesirable developments in Klosterneuburg! Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Conrad Seidl: Sebastian Bohrn Mena: A politically scratchy cat friend. In: derStandard.at . November 29, 2018, accessed December 3, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Michael Völker: Peter Pilz is running with his own list - Stern, Cox, Bohrn Mena and Kolba as fellow campaigners. In: derStandard.at . July 25, 2017, accessed December 3, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Peter Mayr, Michael Völker: Pilz voters miss two MPs. In: derStandard.at . October 20, 2017, accessed December 3, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Animal protection spokesman Bohrn Mena resigns from Pilz list. In: derStandard.at . July 7, 2018, accessed December 3, 2018 .
  29. ↑ Maria Sterkl: List fungus: Bohrn Mena wants against dismissal "by all means fight back." In: derStandard.at . July 10, 2018, accessed December 3, 2018 .
  30. ↑ derStandard.at. Retrieved April 18, 2020 (Austrian German).
  31. ↑ Thanks to the initiator. Retrieved on March 3, 2020 (German).
  32. ↑ Write to us. Retrieved June 18, 2020 (German).
  33. ↑ derStandard.at. Accessed March 4, 2020 (Austrian German).
  34. ↑ Eat better. Accessed April 29, 2020 (German).
  35. ↑ responsibility and probation . 2012, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-531-19705-0 ( springer.com [accessed April 29, 2020]).
  36. ↑ The new working class. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  37. ^ Austrian Albert Schweitzer Society. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bohrn Mena, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna