List of Austrian women ministers
The women ministers of the Republic of Austria included all women ministers as well as the then Minister for Generations, who was the only male member of the government entrusted with women's agendas (with the exception of temporary occupation, after a change of government or the death of the predecessor). The first female minister for women was Johanna Dohnal in 1991 in the federal government Vranitzky III . The current Austrian Minister for Women has been Susanne Raab since January 8, 2020 (as Minister of the Chancellery in the Federal Government Kurz II ).
List of women ministers
portrait | Federal Minister | Political party | Term of office | Governments |
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Johanna Dohnal | SPÖ | from December 17, 1990 to April 6, 1995 Federal Minister without portfolio : * from January 2, 1991 "Entrusted with the [factual] management of the coordination in matters of women's policy in the Federal Chancellery, which is part of the Federal Chancellery's area of activity"; * from January 29, 1991 expanded to include "as well as the affairs of the Equal Treatment Commission". |
Vranitzky III , Vranitzky IV |
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Helga Konrad | SPÖ | from April 26, 1995 to January 28, 1997 (as Minister of the Chancellery, from April 6 to April 25 , 1995 and from March 12, 1996 to April 23, 1996 Federal Minister without portfolio) |
Vranitzky IV | |
Barbara Prammer | SPÖ | (from January 28, 1997 to February 25, 1997 Federal Minister without portfolio) from February 25, 1997 to February 4, 2000 (as Chancellery Minister for Women's Affairs and Consumer Protection) |
climate | |
Elisabeth Sickl | FPÖ | from April 1, 2000 to October 24, 2000 (as Federal Minister for Social Security and Generations) |
Bowl i | |
Herbert Haupt | FPÖ | from October 24, 2000 to April 30, 2003 (as Federal Minister for Social Security and Generations) |
Bowl i | |
Maria Rauch-Kallat | ÖVP | from May 1, 2003 to January 11, 2007 (as Federal Minister for Health and Women) |
Bowl II | |
Andrea Kdolsky | ÖVP | from January 11, 2007 to February 28, 2007 (as Federal Minister for Health and Women) |
Gusenbauer | |
Doris Bures | SPÖ | from March 1, 2007 to July 1, 2008 (as Chancellery Minister for Women, Media and Public Service) |
Gusenbauer | |
Heidrun Silhavy | SPÖ | from July 1, 2008 to December 2, 2008 (as Chancellery Minister for Women, Media and Regional Policy) |
Gusenbauer | |
Werner Faymann | SPÖ | from December 2, 2008 to December 22, 2008 (as Federal Chancellor) |
Faymann I. | |
Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek | SPÖ | from December 22, 2008 to December 16, 2013 (as Minister of the Chancellery for Women and the Civil Service) |
Faymann I. | |
Josef Ostermayer | SPÖ | from December 16, 2013 to February 28, 2014 (as Chancellery Minister for Constitution and Civil Service, also responsible for women) |
Faymann II | |
Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek | SPÖ | from March 1, 2014 to May 18, 2016 (as Federal Minister for Education and Women) |
Faymann II , Kern |
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Sonja Hammerschmid | SPÖ | from May 18, 2016 to June 30, 2016 (as Federal Minister for Education and Women on an interim basis until the amendment to the Federal Ministries Act comes into force, also responsible for women's agendas) |
core | |
Sabine Oberhauser | SPÖ | from July 1, 2016 to February 23, 2017 (as Federal Minister for Health and Women ) |
core | |
Alois Stöger | SPÖ | from February 24, 2017 to March 7, 2017 (on an interim basis with the Federal Ministry of Health and Women ) |
core | |
Pamela Rendi-Wagner | SPÖ | from March 8, 2017 to December 18, 2017 (as Federal Minister for Health and Women ) |
core | |
Beate Hartinger-Klein | FPÖ | from December 18, 2017 to January 7, 2018 (entrusted with the provisional management of the Federal Ministry for Health and Women) |
Briefly I | |
Juliane Bogner-Strauss | ÖVP | from January 8, 2018 to June 3, 2019 (as Minister of the Chancellery for Women, Families and Youth) |
Briefly I | |
Brigitte Bierlein | Independent | from June 3, 2019 to June 5, 2019 (as Federal Chancellor also responsible for women, families and youth on an interim basis) |
Small beer | |
Ines Stilling | Independent | from June 5, 2019 to January 7, 2020 (as Chancellery Minister for Women, Families and Youth; from June 3 to June 5, 2019 as Federal Minister without portfolio,) |
Small beer | |
Sebastian Kurz | ÖVP | from 7 January 2020 to 8 January 2020 (as Federal Chancellor also responsible for women on an interim basis) |
Short II | |
Susanne Raab | ÖVP | from 8 January 2020 (as Minister of the Chancellery) |
Short II |