Terezija Stoisits

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Terezija Stoisits, 2006

Terezija Stoisits [ ˈtɛrɛzija ˈstɔjʃitɕ ] (born November 14, 1958 in Stinatz / Stinjaki , Burgenland ) is an Austrian politician of the Greens . Before leaving the National Council at the end of June 2007 due to her election as Ombudsman , she was the longest serving member of the Greens in the Austrian Parliament.

education and profession

Terezija Stoisits grew up as a Burgenland Croat with the languages German and Croatian in Stinatz / Stinjaki in southern Burgenland. She attended elementary and secondary school and put 1977 at state secondary schools in Güssing the Matura from. She then began studying law at the University of Vienna , which she obtained in 1985 with the academic degree Mag. Iur. completed. She then served her court year and then moved to the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Sport.

Political career

Stoisits, Vienna 2010.

Stoisits moved into the Austrian National Council on November 5, 1990 and was a member of the Federal Executive of the Greens between 1992 and 1996. She was the party-internal board member of the 10th federal state, the Greens sub-organization of ethnic groups and migrants, as well as parliamentary spokesperson for justice, minorities, migration, human rights and the media of the Greens. She was also a member of the Austria Convention, a member of the Austrian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2000, a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Reconciliation Fund. On June 30, 2007 she resigned from the National Council, most recently she was a member of the Constitutional, Justice, Home Affairs, Culture, Ombudsman and National Defense Committee. From the XXI. In the legislative period (November 18, 1999 to December 19, 2002) she was also the chairperson of the Human Rights Committee. After leaving the National Council, on July 1, 2007, she became the first Green politician to take on the position of Ombudsman, which she held until June 30, 2013. In October 2013 she switched back to the Ministry of Education as a civil servant in the role of human rights coordinator and, since September 2015, as a representative for refugees in the school. Since December 2019 she has been chairwoman of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) .

During her time as a member of parliament, Stoisits mainly devoted herself to the subjects of minorities, human rights, migration and justice and became known in parliament for using the Burgenland-Croatian words “Dobar dan, poštovane dame i gospodo” (“Good afternoon, dear Ladies and Gentlemen ”).

In December 1993, Terezija Stoisits was the addressee of a letter bomb from the racially motivated bomber Franz Fuchs . Since the bomb was discovered in time, it did not detonate.

Awards

Private

Terezija Stoisits has a son and lives in a civil partnership with Bruno Aigner (former spokesman for Federal President Heinz Fischer ).

literature

  • Andreas J. Obermaier: The tireless drilling of hard boards. The parliamentary traces of Terezija Stoisits 1990–2007. With contributions by Anton Pelinka and Günther Schefbeck. Planet-Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902555-22-9

Web links

Commons : Terezija Stoisits  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Mag. Terezija Stoisits website of the Austrian Parliament. Retrieved July 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ orf.at - Terezija Stoisits gets out of politics . Article dated July 5, 2017
  3. ^ Die Grünen Wien : Terezija Stoisits becomes Ombudsman ( Memento from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ City of Vienna honors Terezija Stoisits. In: ORF.at . February 14, 2020, accessed February 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Stoisits, Terezija
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (Greens), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Stinjaki