Elisabeth Böhm (politician)

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Elisabeth Böhm (2017)

Elisabeth Böhm (* 1969 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician from the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). She has been the mayor of Neusiedl am See since 2017 and a member of the Burgenland state parliament since October 2019 .

Life

After finishing elementary and secondary school in Neusiedl am See, Elisabeth Böhm attended the federal trade school in Frauenkirchen . Until 2017 she worked as an employee at the water pipeline association Northern Burgenland. She is married and has a daughter and a son.

From 2002 she was a member of the municipal council in Neusiedl am See, in 2007 she became a city councilor and 2012 deputy mayor. On October 29, 2017 she was elected as the successor of Kurt Lentsch (ÖVP) and thus the first woman in the history of the city in this office in the course of the municipal council election in a runoff election against Thomas Halbritter (ÖVP) . In addition, the mayor's chair of the city went to the SPÖ for the first time. On November 8, 2017, she was sworn in as mayor. She is the SPÖ chairwoman in Neusiedl am See, a member of the SPÖ district presidency and the district executive committee as well as the SPÖ state executive committee, as well as the deputy district chairwoman of the SPÖ women.

On October 17, 2019 she was in the XXI. Legislative period as a member of the Burgenland Landtag , where she belongs to the Finance, Budget and Budget Committee, the Legal Committee, the Social Committee and the Economic Committee. She replaced Christian Drobits , who was elected to the National Council. After Drobits sat on a preferential vote mandate, Doris Prohaska had to move up to the district mandate so that Bohm could take over the state mandate from Prohaska.

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Böhm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Neusiedl am See: Mayor Elisabeth Böhm / SPÖ. In: neusiedlamsee.at. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b c d e Neusiedl: Runoff election: Duel of the mayoral candidates. In: Burgenland People's Newspaper . October 18, 2017, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  3. ^ Pia Reiter .: Neusiedl am See: Lentsch hands over office and city to Böhm. In: Burgenland People's Newspaper . November 15, 2017, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Personalia: Elisabeth Böhm: “Time for change in Neusiedl”. In: gemeindebund.at. November 14, 2017, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Birgit Böhm-Ritter: Neusiedl am See: A year in office: Elisabeth Böhm in conversation. In: Burgenland People's Newspaper . November 21, 2018, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Landtag Burgenland: SPÖ-KLUB: Böhm Elisabeth. In: bgld-landtag.at. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Millendorfer: Change in the SPÖ club: Landtag: Böhm follows Drobits. In: Burgenland People's Newspaper . October 16, 2019, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Politics: Parliament passes ten laws. In: burgenland. ORF.at . October 17, 2019, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Thomas Orovits: Landtag dissolves and appends further sessions. In: Kurier.at . October 17, 2019, accessed October 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Boehm, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna