Characteristics
- Name:
Claudia Plakolm - Born on the:
December 10, 1994 in Linz - Position:
State Secretary in the Chancellery - Education:
Studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business; since October 2014 study of business education at the University of Linz - Career:
Member of the National Council since 2017, chairwoman of the Young ÖVP from 2021 - Political party:
ÖVP
Head of the Young ÖVP, surprisingly State Secretary. You know that from where. But on closer inspection, Claudia Plakolm is a different type than Sebastian Kurz. The affable Upper Austrian comes from a political family, is not afraid of using dialect at all and whether she will one day be drawn to the Federal Chancellery is still in the stars.
State school spokeswoman and councilor
Plakolm has been considered a talent for some time. She was the state school spokesperson for the AHS in Upper Austria, as well as the state chairwoman of the Union of Higher Students, and she became a councilor in her home town of Walding at the age of 20. So she was already politically routine when she became the youngest member of the National Council in 2017 at the age of 22. Two years later, Plakolm was in second place on the state list behind club boss August Wöginger.
The next step in her career was the Obfrauschaft in the youth organization of the People’s Party, whose Upper Austrian part she had already headed before. The assumption of office was, of course, an unusual one. The new boss could only watch her freestyle from a distance, as she got into corona quarantine at the stupidest time.
Rural and political environment
Plakolm comes from a rural and political environment. Her family runs a small farm in the Mühlviertel, her father is the mayor of Walding. She is studying business education herself. Playing the trombone is one of her hobbies.
Plakolm has a few sides, at least in terms of fashion. While she appeared in a dirndl for her swearing-in in the National Council, she said some time ago in the “Volksblatt” when asked about a dream that still had to be realized: “Walking through San Francisco in torn jeans.”
That could be more difficult in the new task in the Chancellery. It can be assumed that Plakolm will primarily look after the youth agendas. Because she was already a youth spokesperson in the National Council. In any case, a first step into the Chancellery has already been taken on Friday.
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