Elisabeth Rechnitzer

Elisabeth Rechnitzer (born July 17, 1937 in Kittsee as Elisabeth Warenits ; † March 5, 1993 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). Rechnitzer was a member of the Burgenland Landtag from 1977 to 1987 .

Life

Rechnitzer was born as the daughter of the innkeeper Josef Warenits from Kittsee and attended the secondary schools in Neusiedl am See and Hainburg after the elementary school in Kittsee . She then completed the two-year commercial school in Vienna and then worked as an employee in Vienna. Between 1956 and 1957 she was an accountant in the agricultural cooperative system in Burgenland and in 1965 became the manager of her own farm. From 1975 she was part-time managing director of a bank.

Rechnitzer died in the Kittsee hospital and was buried in the cemetery in Deutsch Jahrndorf after her death.

politics

From 1973 to 1984, Rechnitzer was politically active as the district leader of the Austrian women's movement in the Neusiedl am See district, and in 1975 rose to the position of regional organizer. Between 1988 and 1991 she was the country leader of the women's movement. She represented the ÖVP between October 27, 1977 and October 30, 1987 as a member of the state parliament and was also active within the party from 1985 to 1986 as ÖVP local party chairwoman in Deutsch Jahrndorf and from 1985 to 1988 as regional party chairwoman. After leaving the state parliament, Rechnitzer worked as an employee of the ÖVP state party leadership.

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 2: (1945–1995) (= Burgenland Research. 76). Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 1996, ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .