Christina Steinmetzer

Christina Steinmetzer (born January 5, 1941 in Lambach , Upper Austria ) is a former Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) who was a member of the Salzburg state parliament from 1974 to 1989 . After her political activities, she became known as the founder of the Museum Association of the Zinkenbacher Painters Colony .

education and profession

Steinmetzer attended elementary school between 1946 and 1950 and then switched to high school in Salzburg in 1950, which she attended until 1954. In 1954, she changed school again and continued her education at the higher federal college for women's professions in Salzburg. Steinmetzer passed his Matura in 1958 and studied French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris between 1958 and 1959 . From 1959 to 1961 she was an editorial candidate for the daily newspaper Die Presse in Vienna and subsequently worked from 1961 to 1962 as a trainee set designer at the Salzburg State Theater . In the years 1962 to 1963 she also completed an apprenticeship as a women's clothing maker, in 1963 she passed the journeyman's examination, but was never active in this profession, since from 1964 she worked for her husband in St. Gilgen as a housewife and ordination assistant in her husband's veterinary practice in Sankt Gilgen supported. After her political activities, Steinmetzer studied psychology from 1989 to 1994 and art history from 1994 to 2000 at the University of Salzburg , where she completed her studies in 2001 with the academic degree Mag. Phil. completed. In 1996 Steinmetzer founded the museum association "Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie", which is dedicated to the artists from Vienna who stayed in Sankt Gilgen in the interwar period.

Politics and functions

Steinmetzer was active as the regional leader of the Austrian women's movement in Flachgau from 1977 to 1990 and also worked as the deputy regional director of the Austrian women's movement. Furthermore, she was active as a federal cultural advisor for the Austrian women's movement from 1979 to 1989. She worked from 1979 to 1989 as deputy chairwoman of the cultural committee of the European Women's Union (EFU) and represented the Salzburg People's Party from May 29, 1974 to September 12, 1989 in the Salzburg state parliament.

Awards

• Grand Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1985)
• Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Salzburg (1989)
• Federal Decoration of Honor for Cultural Merit (2006)

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .

Remarks

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