Eleonore Hödl

Eleonore Hödl (born April 7, 1944 in Deutschlandsberg , Styria ) is a former Austrian politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Eleonore Hödl grew up in Graz , where she attended elementary school and a secondary school, from which she graduated in 1963 . After a year at the commercial academy , Hödl enrolled at the University of Graz , where she studied law and received her doctorate in 1968 .

After a year of legal practice and an employee in a Graz tax consultancy , she became a product manager at Sattler AG in the Graz district of Liebenau in 1969 . After two years, in 1971 she found work as a consultant at the pension insurance institute in Graz. In 1982 she was appointed head of the social law department there.

Hödl began her short political career in 1983 when she moved into the Graz municipal council as a member of the SPÖ , to which she was to belong until 1986. In December 1986 she was sworn in as a member of the Federal Council in Vienna . She then held a mandate in the regional chamber until October 1991.

Within her party, she not only sat on the state party executive, but from 1985 was also the chairwoman of the Association of Social Democratic Academics, Intellectuals, and Artists (BSA).

Web links

• Eleonore Hödl on the website of the Austrian Parliament