Barbara Prammer

Barbara Prammer (born 11 January 1954 in Ottnang the house jerk; born Thaller ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ). It is since 2006 President of the National Council.

Life

After visiting the Commercial Academy in Upper Austria Vöcklabruck (1968-1973) Prammer worked at the municipal office Ottnang. She studied from 1978 to 1986 Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and graduated with a degree Mag. soc. oec. from. This was followed by professional activities as social and professional educator in the Linz Center for Rehabilitation (until 1989 ) and the Employment Service of Upper Austria, where she was Mrs. Officer.

On September 13, 2013 a press conference of their press spokesman Gerhard Marshal was announced that Barbara Prammer is seriously ill in the frame. However, the office as President of the National Council she wants to continue for the time being. Pursuant to an agreement with the Second President Fritz Neugebauer is Prammer wants to be represented by that in the case of preventions. On September 24, Prammer announced that it is a cancer, but they will exercise their political functions further.

Barbara Prammer is the mother of two children. Their daughter Julia was vice-chairman of the student union Salzburg, list Green & Alternative students (GRAS ), and is now District spokeswoman for the Greens Salzburg. From 1980 to 2001 she was married to Wolfgang Prammer.

Policy

In 1990 she was elected to the National Women chairman of the SPÖ Upper Austria and held this position until 2005. In 1995, she chose the federal SPÖ to one of the deputy party chairman. From 1991, she worked as a Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the State Parliament in the Upper Austrian politics. From 1995 to 1997 she was State Minister for Housing and Conservation.

In February 1997, she summoned the then Chancellor Viktor Klima as Federal Minister for Women Affairs and Consumer Protection in its government. Your three years as Minister aroused by unusual family policy statements attention. For unequal retirement age for men and women, she said in 2002: These five years have been a pawn in the hands of women, and this pledge is very very valuable and precious and that it was in the past and it will be in the future. That said, here are women still the possibility of " your politics, your or you love society are we still some guilty and then when you have so to speak, does the same work, then we talk about the statutory retirement age. " So they formulated the up still valid paradigm of the Austrian social policy, to compensate for the still existing unequal situation of men and women through affirmative action (one-sided preference for the disadvantaged ) and dissolve faster.

Effect

In fact Prammer could successfully implement in their term of office of one of the more important family political equality concerns, namely 1999, the anchoring of the "full balance of contributions" in marriage in the family and matrimonial law. Its predecessor Helga Konrad was initiated in 1996 with the half - half campaign, but had been dismissed shortly thereafter because of the enormous waves with. Prammer could then achieve the consensual amendment of the Civil Code in three years of work to reach consensus, and thus overall setting a course in gender equality policy, and in addition also the whole social policy with regard to the operations "in your own four walls " of the Austrians.

Since the general election of October 1999, Barbara Prammer MPs was the National Council. As the SPO with the government took Chancellor went into opposition on 4 February 2000, she was deputy chairwoman of the SP parliamentary group. On 16 June 2004 she was chosen by the Austrian National Vice President.

Since 2006 Prammer is National President. Its predecessor was Andreas Khol (ÖVP ), their deputies are nunmehrigen Karlheinz Kopf (ÖVP ) and Norbert Hofer ( FPÖ). Because of the first election of a woman to the top of the Parliament respected the political observers especially on the results of the (secret) vote. With 135 out of 166 valid votes deputies she reached the same percentage agreement as Andreas Khol four years earlier. With her ​​election as Vice President Prammer had only received 96 of 157 votes in 2004, but has since been recognized for its chairmanship. In her inaugural speech, she called for the strengthening of the rights of minorities in the National Council. 2008 Prammer was re-elected with 140 valid votes of 168 to the National Council. 2013 Prammer was elected to the National Council, with 147 out of 179 valid votes again.

Awards

• Grand Gold Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria (2000)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2007)
• Inclusion in the French Legion of Honor as Commandeur de la Légion d' Honneur (C. LH) (2014)