Claudia Plakolm

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Claudia Plakolm
State Secretary in the Chancellery for Youth and Generations
Assumed office
December 6, 2021
PresidentAlexander Van der Bellen
ChancellorKarl Nehammer
Member of the National Council
for Upper Austria
In office
November 9, 2017 – December 6, 2021
Personal details
Born (1994-12-10) December 10, 1994 (age 27)
Linz, Austria
EducationVienna University of Economics and Business

Claudia Plakolm (born December 10, 1994 in Linz[1]) is an Austrian politician of the People's Party (ÖVP) and State Secretary in the federal government of Nehammer. She was sworn in as a member of the National Council on November 9, 2017.[2] Since May 15, 2021 she has been the federal chairman of the Young People's Party (JVP).[3]

Life[]

Claudia Plakolm was born the third of four siblings and grew up in Walding. Her father is the local ÖVP mayor Johann Plakolm. After attending elementary school and the school center of the Kreuzschwestern Linz , where she was head of the school in 2011/12 and graduated from high school in 2013, she first began studying economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and has been studying business education at the University of Linz since October 2014.[4][5]

Politics[]

Beginnings[]

In the school year 2012/13, she was the Upper Austrian state school spokesperson for the AHS area, and in 2013/14, she acted as state chairwoman of the ÖVP-related Union of Higher Students (UHS). Since February 2015, she has been the deputy district chairwoman of the Young ÖVP in the Urfahr-Umgebung District. In October 2016, she was elected regional chairwoman of the Young ÖVP Upper Austria, in April 2019, she was re-elected for three years.[6][7] Since the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015, she has represented the ÖVP in the municipal council of Walding, and since 2016 she has also been part of the state party executive of the ÖVP Upper Austria.[8]

National Council[]

On November 9, 2017, at the age of 22, she was the youngest member of the XXVI. Legislative period for the Austrian National Council promised.[9][10][11] In the course of the formation of the federal government shortly after the National Council election, she negotiated on the ÖVP side in the Family and Youth Section.[12] At the Bundestag of the Young People's Party on November 25, 2017, she was elected Deputy Federal Chairman.[13] In the ÖVP parliamentary club, she acts as a youth spokesperson.[14]

In the 2019 National Council election, she ran behind ÖVP top candidate August Wöginger in second place in the list in the Upper Austria electoral district.[15] Plakolm was re-elected to the committee, but in the XXVII. Legislative period, she is no longer its youngest member. Yannick Shetty of NEOS now holds this status.[16] As part of the coalition negotiations for the formation of a government in 2019, she negotiates in the main group Social Security, New Justice and Poverty Reduction.[17][18]

In June 2020, she was designated as the successor to Stefan Schnöll as federal chairwoman of the young ÖVP.[19] On May 15, 2021, she was elected with 94.39 percent of the vote for successor of Schnöll.[20]

State Secretary[]

On December 6, 2021, she was sworn in as a member of the Nehammer Federal Government as State Secretary for Youth and Generations in the Federal Chancellery.[21] Her National Council mandate went to Andrea Holzner.[22]

References[]

  1. ^ "Claudia Plakolm - Staatssekretärin im Bundeskanzleramt". Meine Abgeordneten (in German). Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  2. ^ "ÖVP fixiert Mandate: Jüngste Abgeordnete ist 22". nachrichten.at (in German). Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  3. ^ red, ORF at/Agenturen (May 15, 2021). "Wechsel an der Spitze der JVP". news.ORF.at (in German). Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  4. ^ josef.ertl (September 10, 2017). ""Junge zuversichtlicher als Ältere"". kurier.at (in German). Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  5. ^ "Claudia Plakolm - Staatssekretärin im Bundeskanzleramt". Meine Abgeordneten (in German). Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  6. ^ "21-jähriger Münzbacher Stefan Neugschwandtner in den JVP-Landesvorstand gewählt". Tips Online. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  7. ^ "Neue-alte Chefin der JVP OÖ: Claudia Plakolm für drei Jahre wiedergewählt".
  8. ^ "Claudia Plakolm, Biografie | Parlament Österreich". www.parlament.gv.at (in German). Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  9. ^ "ÖVP fixiert Mandate: Jüngste Abgeordnete ist 22". nachrichten.at (in German). Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  10. ^ "Claudia Plakolm - Staatssekretärin im Bundeskanzleramt". Meine Abgeordneten (in German). Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  11. ^ "Der neue Nationalrat startet mit 86 Neulingen". kurier.at (in German). November 8, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  12. ^ "Wer die Koalition verhandelt". November 9, 2017.
  13. ^ "Junge ÖVP: Kurz übergab Vorsitz an Schnöll". kurier.at. November 25, 2017. Archived from the original on November 25, 2017.
  14. ^ "ÖVP: Katholische Hardlinerin für Menschenrechte". kurier.at. January 27, 2018. Archived from the original on January 27, 2018.
  15. ^ "Wöginger und Plakolm führen VP-Landesliste an". nachrichten.at (in German). Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  16. ^ Magdalena, Ennemoser (October 22, 2019). "Weiblicher und jünger: Neuer Nationalrat konstituiert sich". Tiroler Tageszeitung Online (in German). Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  17. ^ "Namen von mehr als 100 türkis-grünen Verhandlern stehen fest". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  18. ^ https://www.nachrichten.at/storage/med/download/288367_Fachgruppen_OeVP-Gruene.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  19. ^ "Claudia Plakolm (25) wird neue Chefin der Jungen ÖVP". kurier.at (in German). June 26, 2020. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  20. ^ "Wechsel an der Spitze der JVP: Claudia Plakolm neue Chefin". May 15, 2021.
  21. ^ "Neues Regierungsteam: ÖVP macht Nehammer zum Kanzler". news.ORF.at (in German). December 3, 2021. Archived from the original on December 3, 2021. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  22. ^ "Plakolm als Staatssekretärin angelobt". ooe.ORF.at (in German). December 6, 2021. Archived from the original on December 6, 2021. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
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