Elisabeth Zanon

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Elisabeth Zanon (born June 13, 1955 in Leisach , Tyrol ) is a former Austrian politician. She was the deputy chairwoman of the Austrian People's Party ( ÖVP ) and the Tyrolean People's Party , regional leader of the Tyrolean women's movement and the first deputy governor of Tyrol. In July 2008, due to the election of the new state government under Günther Platter, she announced that she would withdraw from politics and return to work as a doctor.

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Elisabeth Zanon was born in Lienz in 1955 as the daughter of Fridolin Zanon and his wife Elisabeth. After primary school in Lienz and the Matura at the local grammar school , she completed a medical degree in Innsbruck , which she completed with a doctorate in 1982. After completing the regular training at the Lienz District Hospital, Zanon began training as a specialist in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Innsbruck clinic (graduated from Hans Anderl) and worked there as a specialist. In 1993 she opened her own practice. Since her retirement from politics in 2008, she has been working again as a resident specialist in Innsbruck and Vienna. Elisabeth Zanon is a member of the board of the Austrian Society for Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery. Elisabeth Zanon has been chairwoman of the Tyrolean hospice community since 2012.

From 2018 to 2023 she is Chair of the University Council of the Medical University of Innsbruck .

Political career

Zanon was elected to the state government in 1994 as the first woman by the Tyrolean state parliament. From January 3, 2006, Zanon was the first deputy governor and was responsible, among other things, for the areas of health, family, women, youth, senior citizens, integration, employee support and housing subsidies. At the federal party conference of the ÖVP in 1995, Zanon was elected as deputy chairwoman of Wolfgang Schüssel . At the 33rd Ordinary Federal Party Congress on April 21, 2007 in Salzburg, she was re-elected as Deputy Federal Party Leader. In addition, Zanon has been the country leader for Tyrolean women in the People's Party / Tyrolean women's movement since 1995. After the Tyrolean People's Party lost almost 10 percentage points in the state elections on June 8, 2008, Zanon announced on the evening of the election that it would inherit Governor Herwig van Staa in his functions as governor and party leader. When the Tyrolean provincial government was reorganized under the leadership of Governor Günther Platter in July 2008, however, Zanon was no longer given a chance. She took this as an opportunity to announce her departure from politics, to withdraw into private life or to return to work as a doctor. This although it was discussed for a long time that she wanted to switch to federal politics, which she repeatedly refuted. She has also already acted as the successor to Andrea Kdolsky as Federal Minister for Health, Family and Youth.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ derStandard.at: University councils are almost complete now . Article dated April 30, 2018, accessed May 2, 2018.
  2. ^ University Council of the Medical University of Innsbruck . Retrieved May 2, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Zanon, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP) and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Leisach , Tyrol