Barbara Wolfgang-Krenn

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Barbara Wolfgang-Krenn , also Barbara Krenn (born December 19, 1969 in Bad Aussee ; † April 3, 2019 in Vienna ), was an Austrian entrepreneur and politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). She was sworn in as a member of the National Council on November 9, 2017 .

Life

Among other things, she worked as an assistant manager at the Hotel Yachtclub Timmendorfer Strand . Her parents ran the Gasthaus Krenn in Pürgg , which she ran as an innkeeper from 1988 to 2016 . As an entrepreneur she rose in the Styrian Chamber of Commerce up to the professional group chairwoman of the Styrian landlords. At the same time, she got involved in the community, where she moved into the local council in 1995, took on the role of tourism manager in 1998 and was mayor of Pürgg-Trautenfels from 2007 to 2014 .

After an unsuccessful operation in 2014, she was paralyzed , so she lost all functions and sold the inn to Dietrich Mateschitz . She had already stood as a candidate for the ÖVP in the Austrian National Council election in 2013 .

In November 2018 she succeeded Dorothea Schittenhelm as the women’s spokeswoman for the ÖVP parliamentary club .

Barbara Wolfgang-Krenn died in April 2019 after years of cancer. Her national council mandate went to Karl Schmidhofer , followed by Juliane Bogner-Strauss as women's spokeswoman . She was buried in Stainach-Pürgg .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Krenn - biography . In: parlament.gv.at, accessed on April 3, 2019.
  2. ^ A b ÖVP politician Barbara Krenn has died . In: steiermark.orf.at, April 3, 2019, accessed on April 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ Barbara Krenn heads the ÖVP list in Styria. In: derstandard.at. August 13, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Gasthaus Krenn opened with a new team. In: kleinezeitung.at . June 16, 2016, accessed on August 29, 2020 (registration required).
  5. ↑ Bernd Kaiser: Barbara Krenn “is her wife”. In: blo24.at. July 18, 2013, accessed April 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Barbara Krenn is the women's spokeswoman for the new People's Party . OTS announcement of November 19, 2018, accessed November 20, 2018.
  7. ^ ÖVP politician Barbara Krenn died at the age of only 49 . In: kleinezeitung.at, April 3, 2019, accessed on April 3, 2019.
  8. ↑ Member of the National Council Barbara Krenn has died . In: kurier.at, April 3, 2019, accessed on April 3, 2019.
  9. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Politics internal: National Council mandate from Krenn goes to Schmidhofer . Article dated April 5, 2019, accessed April 20, 2019.
  10. ↑ Six new MPs sworn in. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Stainach-Pürgg Hundreds said goodbye to Barbara Kren. In: kleinezeitung.at. April 13, 2019, accessed August 27, 2020 . Barbara Krenn In: trauer.kleinezeitung.at. April 5, 2019, accessed August 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolfgang-Krenn, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krenn, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur and politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)
DATE OF BIRTH 19th December 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Aussee
DATE OF DEATH 3rd April 2019
Place of death Vienna