Karoline Edtstadler

Karoline Edtstadler
State secretary in the Ministry of the Interior
Assumed office
18 December 2017
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz
Minister Herbert Kickl
Personal details
Born (1981-03-28) 28 March 1981
Salzburg[1]
Political party People's Party

Karoline Edtstadler (born 28 March 1981) is an Austrian lawyer and politician. Since 18 December 2017 she serves as state secretary in the Ministry of the Interior.[2]

Personal life

Karoline Edtstadler was born as the daughter of the former director of the Salzburg Landtag, Karl W. Edtstadler and was raised in Elixhausen in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung.[2] After attending the elementary school of Elixhausen and the Musische Gymnasiums Salzburg, where she graduatet from in 1991, she attended the University of Salzburg to study law there. She completed her studies in 2004 as a Magistra, followed by a court internship at the district court of Mondsee and the Salzburg Regional Court. In 2006 she became a judge's candidate at the higher regional court of Linz and in 2008 she became a judge at the Landesgericht Salzburg.[2][3] In 2010 she sentenced two brothers, that have been blameless until then, because they supposedly violated a police officer at the demonstrations against the asylum policy of Maria Fekter. The higher regional court of Linz lifted the conviction in significant points, the sentence also seemed to be too high for the prosecutor.[2][4] The president of the regional court Hans praised Edtstadler's work at the court: "She was a very goal-oriented and experienced judge".[2]

Karoline Edtstadler is a mother of a son and lives in Salzburg.[2][3]

Politics

From 2004 to 2006, she was Councilor in Henndorf am Wallersee for the ÖVP. In October 2011, she moved to the Ministry of Justice in Section IV "Criminal Law" with Christian Pilnacek and 2014 as a personal assistant to the Cabinet of Justice Minister Wolfgang Brandstetter, where she was involved in the reform of the criminal code and juvenile justice. In early 2015, she became Senior Prosecutor at the Vienna Corruption Prosecutor's Office, but remained assigned to the Federal Ministry of Justice. From May 2016 she was a legal employee at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg and commuted from there to Austria. [3][2]

Since 18 December 2017 she is secretary of state at the Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Austria.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Interior Ministry of Austria. "Herbert Kickl". Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Salzburgerin Edtstadler neue Staatssekretärin" (in German). 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  3. 1 2 3 "Karoline Edtstadler: Salzburger Richterin als Staatssekretärin im Innenministerium". www.kleinezeitung.at (in German). Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  4. 1 2 Nachrichten, Salzburger. "Karoline Edtstadler - Salzburgerin ist ÖVP-Staatssekretärin im Innenministerium" (in German). Retrieved 2018-06-12.
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