Sonja Pitscheider

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Sonja Pitscheider (born June 3, 1969 ) is a former Austrian politician . She was a member of the Greens until April 19, 2018 .

Life

Sonja Pitscheider grew up in a social democratic family in Hall in Tirol . She studied educational science with a focus on psychoanalysis at the University of Innsbruck .

Pitscheider is married and has one son.

politics

She came to the Innsbruck Greens through a local citizens' initiative against traffic pollution in the Mariahilf district .

In 2006 she became a councilor, in 2012 she went into the running for the Greens as a candidate for mayor in the 2012 municipal council elections in Innsbruck . With 19.1 percent of the vote, it led the Greens to the best result to date in an Austrian state capital. In the runoff between Christine Oppitz-Plörer ( for Innsbruck ) and Christoph Platzgummer ( ÖVP ), Pitscheider recommended the ruling mayor. After their victory with 56 percent of the vote, after long negotiations a traffic light coalition of For Innsbruck, the Greens and the SPÖ came about . Pitscheider was a member of the city senate and first vice mayor of the city of Innsbruck from 2012 to 2018. She was responsible for the environment , energy and mobility (road and traffic law, traffic planning and environment), civil engineering and the advancement of women .

On May 29, 2017, Georg Willi was able to prevail at the district assembly of the Innsbruck Greens with 74 percent of the votes against the incumbent Vice Mayor Sonja Pitscheider and was elected as the top and mayor candidate for the municipal council and mayor election in Innsbruck 2018 . Pitscheider and the Green City Councilor Gerhard Fritz had previously announced that if Georg Willi wins, they will resign from all political functions and no longer take part in the municipal council elections.

Pitscheider is assigned to the left-wing camp within the Greens , and according to her own statements she advocates "left politics".

On April 19, 2018, three days before the municipal council elections in Innsbruck, she resigned from the party. Pitscheider cited statements by Georg Willi as the reason, according to which the subject of living is more important to people than discussions about the internal I and “ marriage for all ”. She did not resign from her political offices.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.tt.com/politik/landespolitik/15874263/sonja-pitscheider-uebernehmen-heimleitung-in-aldrans
  2. ↑ Biographical information from Grüne in AK-Tirol ( Memento from June 7th 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Christoph Mair: Sharpness and patience are not mutually exclusive . In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . March 2, 2012
  4. ^ Willi green top candidate in Innsbruck - tirol.ORF.at. Retrieved May 30, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung Online: Pitscheider vs. Willi: Green Showdown in Innsbruck | Tiroler Tageszeitung online - news from now! In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online . May 3, 2017 ( tt.com [accessed March 20, 2020]).
  6. ^ Tiroler Tageszeitung Online: Pitscheider: "I'm not a second choice" | Tiroler Tageszeitung online - news from now! In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online . February 17, 2017 ( tt.com [accessed March 20, 2020]).
  7. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Georg Willi and the new green way of the center in Innsbruck . In: derStandard.at . April 19, 2018 ( derstandard.at [accessed April 26, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Deputy Mayor Pitscheider resigns from the Greens. Tiroler Tageszeitung, April 20, 2018, accessed on April 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Pitscheider, Sonja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd June 1969