Gabriele Nussbaumer

Gabriele Nussbaumer (2017)

Gabriele Nussbaumer (born June 17, 1956 in Bregenz ; born Gabriele Russ ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). Nussbaumer was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 1999 to 2018 . From 2012 to 2014 she was President and from 2004 to 2012 and from 2014 to 2018 Vice-President of the State Parliament.

Professional and political career

Gabriele Nußbaumer was born on June 17, 1956 as the daughter of UN publisher and editor-in-chief Anton Russ and his wife Rosa. After attending elementary school in Bregenz and the private high school Sacré Coeur Riedenburg , she initially trained as an elementary school teacher at the Pedagogical Academy in Feldkirch , before starting to study law at the University of Innsbruck in 1979 . This she graduated in 1984 with the promotion of Doctor of Law from.

She then worked as a journalist. After the state elections in 1999 , Nussbaumer was sworn in for the first time on October 5, 1999 as a member of the Feldkirch electoral district in the Vorarlberg state parliament . In the 27th Vorarlberg state parliament she was subsequently the area spokesperson for social affairs at the ÖVP state parliament club. After the state elections in 2004 , Nussbaumer was elected the first female vice-president of the newly sworn 28th state parliament. Also in the 29th legislative period of the state parliament, Gabriele Nussbaumer was initially elected as the first vice-president of the state parliament and was the European spokesperson for the ÖVP.

After Bernadette Mennel, President of the State Parliament, moved to the state government , Gabriele Nussbaumer was elected President of the Vorarlberg State Parliament on November 14, 2012. Her previous function as first female vice-president was taken over by her party colleague Heinz Peter Ritter . With the inauguration of the 30th Vorarlberger Landtag and the move of Harald Sonderegger to the Landtag, the latter was subsequently elected President of the Landtag, which is why Nussbaumer was re-elected as Vice-President of the Landtag.

On December 13, 2017, she announced her resignation as Vice-President and MP. In December 2017, she gave personal reasons for resigning as Vice President of the State Parliament and Member of Parliament. With the handover of the waiver letter to the state electoral authority on January 2, 2018, Nussbaumer left the state parliament; In the state parliament session on January 31, 2018, she was succeeded by Steve Mayr as a member of the electoral district of Feldkirch and Martina Rüscher as vice- president of the state parliament.

Secondary occupations and private life

In addition to her political activities, Gabriele Nussbaumer was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Social Fund between 2002 and 2012 and since 2004 a member of the Ethics Commission of the State of Vorarlberg. She has been President of Lebenshilfe Vorarlberg since July 2014 and a member of the Supervisory Board of the German Liebenau Foundation since 2015 .

Gabriele Nussbaumer lives in Feldkirch , is married and has a son and a daughter. Her son passed away in 2012.

Her younger brother Eugen Russ (* 1961) is the largest publisher in Vorarlberg with Russmedia .

Web links

Commons : Gabriele Nussbaumer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography of Gabriele Nussbaumer in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vice- President of the State Parliament resigns. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . December 14, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2017 . 
2. ↑ State Parliament Vice President Gabriele Nussbaumer resigns. In: vol.at . December 14, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2017 . 
3. ^ Gabriele Nussbaumer new member of the supervisory board. In: Südkurier Meckenbeuren. June 20, 2015, accessed July 19, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Klaus Hämmerle: Vorarlberger, about whom one talks: a quiet fighter. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten . November 14, 2012, accessed December 14, 2017 .