HEALTH AND JUSTICE

"From Kreisky's living room", recording 9.11.2020

HEALTH AND JUSTICE

A conversation from Peter Hacker, Vienna City Councillor for Social Affairs, Health and Sport with Robert Misik, Author and Journalist from Kreisky's living room

For decades, Peter Hacker worked as a municipal manager in the Citizens' Service, in social and youth services, and later as head of the Vienna Social Fund, ensuring that social and health administration in the City of Vienna ran like clockwork without being in the public spotlight.
This changed with Hacker's appointment as City Councillor for Social Affairs and Health, and again abruptly with the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis. Suddenly it became clear that the „doer“ is also a controversial social politician who knows that it is never just about the neutral functioning of institutions, but that health issues, for example, are always linked to questions of justice and that social policy is always characterised by an image of humanity.
In the discussion series „From Kreisky's living room“, Peter Hacker reports from the engine room of anti-pandemic policy.

Peter Hacker joined the City of Vienna in 1982. In 1985, he joined the team of Mayor Helmut Zilk, specialising in citizens' affairs, youth and social affairs.

From 1992 to 2003, he was Drug Coordinator for the City of Vienna, and from 2001 he was Managing Director of the Vienna Social Fund, which provides social services for people with care and support needs, disabilities, the homeless and refugees. He has been Vienna's refugee coordinator since 2015. On 24 May 2018, Peter Hacker succeeded Sandra Frauenberger as City Councillor for Health and Social Affairs, taking over the sports agenda from Andreas Mailath-Pokorny.