Erika Adensamer

Erika Adensamer (* 13. May 1957 in Baden as Erika Mayer ) is an Austrian primary school teacher and politician ( ÖVP ). From 2003 to 2013 Adensamer was a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament .

Life

Adensamer was born into a family of winegrowers. She attended the Frauengasse grammar school in Baden and graduated from high school. After training as a secondary school teacher for German and art education at the Pedagogical Academy in Baden, which she graduated in 1997, she taught at the secondary school in Teesdorf until 2003 . She also spent several years abroad in Spain and France.

In 1998 Adensamer was elected city manager of the ÖVP women and rose to district manager in April 2002. She is also a member of the provincial board of the ÖVP women in Lower Austria. Within the party, she also held the role of deputy city party chairwoman from 1999 to 2007. Adensamer was elected city councilor for health, social affairs, family and senior citizens in May 2000 and took over the office of mayor of Baden on June 26, 2007 until her resignation in 2010, succeeding August Breininger . Your successor as mayor in Baden was Kurt Staska . Since March 24, 2003, she has also represented the ÖVP in the state parliament. Adensamer did not stand in the state elections in Lower Austria in 2013 and left the state parliament on April 24, 2013. She then returned to her job as a secondary school teacher for German and art education at the secondary school in Teesdorf.

Adensamer volunteers as chairwoman of the Baden hospice movement and is also a board member of the Weltmenschverein and the Lower Austrian Family Association. She is married to a management consultant and is the mother of two daughters and a son.

In 2013 Erika Adensamer was accepted into the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and invested in the Mondsee Basilica on September 21, 2013 by Cardinal Grand Master Edwin Frederick O'Brien . He is a member of the Baden-Wiener Neustadt Commandery.

Awards

• 2014: Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

• Erika Adensamer on the website of the Lower Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Jedlicka: Adensamer is no longer running for the state parliament. In: NÖN.at . Lower Austrian News, September 3, 2012.
2. ↑ Award of honorary decorations to former and incumbent MPs , Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, October 9, 2014.

predecessor	Office	successor
August Breininger	Mayor of the City of Baden 2007–2010	Kurt Staska