Susanne Raab

Susanne Raab (2020)

Susanne Raab (* October 20, 1984 in Vöcklabruck as Susanne Knasmüller ) is an Austrian lawyer , former top civil servant and politician ( ÖVP ). She has been Federal Minister in the Federal Government Brief II since January 7, 2020 . On January 8th, as Federal Minister in the Federal Chancellery, she was assigned the women's and other agendas, and on January 29th she was also assigned the agendas of integration. For simplicity, she is referred to as the Federal Minister for Women and Integration .

Life

education

Raab was born in Vöcklabruck in Upper Austria and grew up in Ampflwang in the Hausruckwald .

From 2003 to 2009 Susanne Raab completed her diploma studies in psychology and law at the University of Innsbruck . During her school and student days, she completed several stays abroad and was involved in various board positions at voluntary organizations, such as the Union for Higher Students in Upper Austria, the Student Union and the European Law Students Association . In November 2010, she completed her doctorate in law with a dissertation on claims for damages in Austrian antitrust law at the University of Innsbruck.

Professional career

During her doctoral studies, Susanne Raab worked as a university assistant at the Institute for Civil Law with a focus on European private law at the University of Innsbruck. She then moved to the Federal Ministry of the Interior as a consultant for the areas of asylum , immigration law and support , where she continued to work for years as a research assistant in research at the Institute for Public Law at the University of Salzburg .

From November 2011 she headed the integration coordination in the Federal Ministry of the Interior , which was integrated into the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs (BMEIA) as of March 2014 . During this time, she also met Sebastian Kurz , who had previously been State Secretary for Integration in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and then BMEIA. From August 2017, she was head of the Integration section in this ministry and thus the youngest section head in Austria.

Susanne Raab worked as a part-time lecturer at Danube University Krems and has already published numerous publications on aliens and asylum law, security police law, and migration and integration.

politics

In the course of the formation of the government in 2019 , it was confirmed that she should come from the ÖVP as Minister of Integration in the Federal Government Kurz II . On January 7, 2020 it was by President Alexander Van der Bellen as Minister without portfolio in the government short II sworn in . Since January 8, 2020 she has been Federal Minister in the Federal Chancellery (Minister of the Chancellery) with responsibility for women and equality, ethnic groups and culture ("Minister for Women"). On January 29, 2020, the integration agendas transferred from the Foreign Ministry to the Federal Chancellery were added to her (“Minister of Integration”). Raab is therefore Federal Minister for Women and Integration in the Federal Chancellery , the addition in the Federal Chancellery is also omitted for the sake of simplicity .

On January 14, 2020, Raab described in the Ö1 - Morgenjournal after the planned ban on headscarves for girls up to fourteen years of age as a “possible next step” for teachers in public schools and “identified them as a 'broad step' in the turquoise-green government Consensus'. ”While she was backed by her party colleague and Federal Chancellor Kurz for this, Vice Chancellor Kogler denied that it could come to that, and noted that his thinking had led to“ that we had a dissent here ”,“ a Headscarf ban for teachers is 'unimaginable' ".

Raab has also come under fire for the fact that, as Minister for Women, she refused to be a feminist in an Ö1 interview against the “label” , as did her statement in an interview with the newspaper Today that she “fortunately, [...] never personally experienced sexism in the workplace ”.

Private

Raab has been married since 2017 and lives near Himberg in Lower Austria.

Web links

Commons : Susanne Raab  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Susanne Raab on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Susanne Raab on meineabmachen.at
• Susanne Raab on the website of the Federal Chancellery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Susanne Raab on the website of the Austrian Parliament , accessed on March 11, 2020.
2. ^ ^{A b} Susanne Knasmüller: Research Assistant at the European Center of Tort and Insurance Law. In: Ectil.org. European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, accessed December 30, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Susanne Raab: The youngest section head becomes a minister. The new integration minister is no stranger to the scene. Susanne Raab, as head of the section, has been dedicated to this topic for a long time. Now she can point the way herself, not an uninteresting task in a coalition with the Greens. In: ORF.at . December 30, 2019, accessed February 16, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} "I wish for a red-white-red government". Speech by the Federal President on the occasion of the appointment and inauguration of the new Federal Government. In: bundespraesident.at. Austrian Presidency Chancellery (publisher), January 7, 2020, accessed on February 16, 2020.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Cabinet Brief II: Removal and appointment of members of the Federal Government and the State Secretaries. As a result of the amendment to the Federal Ministries Act, new competencies and new names were given to the departments. In: bundespraesident.at. Austrian Presidency Chancellery (publisher), January 29, 2020, accessed on February 16, 2020.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Viktória Kery-Erdélyi: People: "You need thick skin". In: The Lower Austrian. Josef Rumer, Uschi Fellner-Pöttler, February 20, 2018, accessed on December 29, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Attitude structures and meanings of life for volunteer workers . Diploma thesis, University of Innsbruck. 2009 ( bibliographical reference ).
8. ↑ Private claims for damages in antitrust law: Austrian legal practice and future development . Dissertation, University of Innsbruck. 2010 ( bibliographical reference ).
9. ^ ÖVP - Greens: First personnel confirmed. In: ORF.at . December 30, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Gabriele Scherndl: Government Education: Susanne Raab, Integration Minister with stringent line. As the first confirmed minister of the future government, Raab will be given a portfolio that has never existed before. So she stays in her field, even if her roots are elsewhere. In: The Standard . December 31, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Resolution of the Federal President, with the factual management of the following affairs belonging to the sphere of activity of the Federal Chancellery being delegated to a separate Federal Minister, Federal Law Gazette II No. 8/2020 , issued on January 8, 2020: “According to Art. 77 Para. 3 B-VG I transfer to the Federal Minister in the Federal Chancellery MMag. Dr. Susanne RAAB is responsible for the technical management of the following matters within the scope of the Federal Chancellery: “Paragraph 1 Z 1 to 4: Coordination in matters of women's and equality policy and gender mainstreaming as well as matters of equal treatment of women and matters of the advocacy for questions of equal treatment; Z 5: Affairs of the ethnic groups; Numbers 6 and 7: matters of cult and cultural and church foundations and funds.
12. ↑ Resolution of the Federal President, with the factual management of the following affairs belonging to the sphere of activity of the Federal Chancellery being transferred to a separate Federal Minister, Federal Law Gazette II No. 18/2020 , issued on January 29, 2020: “According to Art. 77 Para. 3 B-VG I transfer to the Federal Minister in the Federal Chancellery MMag. Dr. Susanne RAAB is responsible for the technical management of the following matters within the scope of the Federal Chancellery: “Additionally as Paragraph 1 Z 5: Integration agendas and coordination of integration policy.
13. ^ For Raab headscarf ban for teachers "possible next step". The Minister of Integration sees a “broad consensus” in turquoise-green for a further extension of the ban. Kogler denies. In: Der Standard / APA , January 14, 2020, accessed on January 14, 2020.
14. ↑ Beate Hausbichler: The spared minister of women. What does it say about a Minister for Women when she says that she has never experienced sexism at work and rejects the feminist label? Column. In: dieStandard , January 14, 2020, accessed on January 14, 2020.