Gudrun Veronika Kugler

Gudrun Kugler Veronica, nee Long, also known as Kugler- Lang ( b. 1976, Gmunden, Upper Austria ) is a Roman Catholic theologian and jurist. It became known as the initiator of the first Catholic marriage platform kathtreff.org and is involved in the pro-life movement as well as at European level against social discrimination and persecution on the basis of the Christian faith.

Career

Kugler is Magistra in law and women's rights and a doctorate in international law. In 1999 she became "Master of Theological Studies on Marriage and Family."

As the founder and first chairman of the " World Youth Alliance Europe " she was from 2001 to 2004 in Brussels. They helped at the UN on behalf of the World Youth Alliance ( WYA ) the 1.5 million young people from 100 countries who represented them, heard by the EU and the UN on human rights issues.

In January 2005, she and her husband founded the Kairos Consulting in Vienna for consideration of non-profit initiatives.

Kugler initiated the " first Catholic marriage platform in the German Web" www.kathtreff.org along with Auxiliary Bishop Andreas Laun Salzburg.

She founded the "Europe for Christ! ", An initiative to encourage Christians and the Documentation Archive of discrimination against Christians in Europe www.christianophobia.eu from the latter out with the Internet platform. It will be there, for example cases of " mockery or ridicule of the Christian faith, removal or prohibition of Christian symbols, they have to bear themselves, as well as attacks on the faith in film and television. " Collected. As a representative of the Documentation Centre, she was the first meeting of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights ODIHR on " intolerance and discrimination against Christians" instrumental in March 2009. Since April 2010 Kugler is a member of the Advisory Panel of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. Kugler is the only one who systematically documented cases of discrimination on grounds of Christian faith in the EU. Kugler is quoted as saying that " intolerance against Christians " and " Christianophobia " was conceived by " stigmatization and negative stereotyping " on the rise.

Kugler ran in 2005 as a non-party in the municipal elections in Vienna for the Austrian People's Party in a hopeless place, scoring list after the top candidates Johannes Hahn (currently rich Aus -driven Commissioner ), the most preferential votes. In this context, lifers and abortion advocates throwing each other against fundamentalism.

She teaches since 2008 as " Adjunct Professor " at the International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Vienna. Likewise, she founded and directed the youth academy at the Dr. Karl -Kummer Institute. In 2010, they issued the commemorative discovery of friendship in honor of the 65th birthday of Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, together with Denis Borel.

Gudrun Kugler is married to the historian Martin Kugler and has four children.

Awards

Gudrun Kugler was honored for her dissertation with the Leopold- Kunschak Prize, set up in Brussels with the price of the pro-life movement Yes to Life Foundation.

Publications

  • Kugler, Gudrun; Borel, Denis (edited for the International Theological Institute ): Discovery of Friendship: Philia to Facebook, 2010, Freiburg, Br; Basel; Vienna: Herder, ISBN 978-3-451-30343-2
  • Kugler, Gudrun; Beller, Tilman: Does God have a plan for me, KathTreff.org, April 2009
  • Kugler, Gudrun: Family - Answer to Many Questions, World Youth Alliance, August 2004
  • Long, Gudrun V.; Strohmer, Michael [Ed ]; Klestil, Thomas [ Adv ]: Europe of fundamental rights? Contributions to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; with a foreword by the Federal President of the Republic of Austria, February 2003, Bonn: Publisher of Culture and Science, ISBN 3-932829-61-1
  • Long, Gudrun V. [Ed ]; Symposium in memory of the resistance group White Rose 60th anniversary of Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst Munich 2003; European Youth Alliance: Heroes of human dignity: Texts for the symposium in memory of the resistance group "White Rose" on the 60th anniversary of the death of Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst, Bonn: Publisher of Science and Culture: Edition per mundis; Vol 11, 2003, ISBN 3-932829-75-1
  • Essays and articles Gudrun Kugler- Lang: Guest Commentary: The "F - word" with the long beard " in the Wiener Zeitung of 14 February 2006 online
  • Gudrun Kugler: There is no right to abortion, Europe for Christ: Letter for Europe 48 ( February 2010)
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