Gabriele Weishäupl

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Gabriele Weishäupl (2007)

Gabriele Weishäupl (born February 28, 1947 in Passau ) was the director of the tourism office of the state capital of Munich from 1985 to 2012 and was responsible for organizing the Munich Oktoberfest .

Career

education and profession

Growing up in Aicha vorm Wald , Weishäupl graduated from high school in 1966 at the Gisela high school run by the English Misses in Niedernburg Abbey (Passau). From 1966 to 1970 she then studied communication studies , Bavarian history and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After two years as a local reporter in Munich, she worked from 1972 to 1985 for the Munich Trade Fair and Exhibition Company (MMG). After graduating in 1977 with the title Magister Artium , she did her doctorate in 1980 at the Ludwig Maximilians UniversityThe trade fair as a communication medium with special consideration of the public relations and advertising of a trade fair company . From 1981 to 1985 she also held a teaching position in communication science at LMU.

Head of Tourism

In 1985 she was elected tourism director of the city of Munich and surprisingly prevailed as a non-party against 40 male competitors. After 27 years of service, Weishäupl retired at the beginning of April 2012 and was the longest-serving tourism director in Germany. The tourism office was subsequently dissolved, and Munich Tourism is now a department of the Department for Labor and Economics.

Because of her office she was represented in many organizations, including a. since 1997 honorary member of the Munich Showmen Association and Vice President of the German Tourism Association . For her services she received the Bavarian Order of Merit (2007) and numerous other awards, including the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . She is the mother of a daughter and a son.

Weishäupl has been a lecturer at the Munich University of Applied Sciences since the 2013 summer semester. At the Faculty of Tourism, she holds the seminar "Folk festivals as the engines of tourism - the Oktoberfest as a reference."

Engagement with the FDP

Weishäupl joined the FDP in January 2013. As a member of the Bavarian State Association, she ran for constituency 102 (Bogenhausen, Berg am Laim, Au / Haidhausen) in the state elections in autumn 2013.

Works

Web links

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

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  1. ↑ http://www.oktoberfest-live.de/wiesn/seminar-gabriele-weishaeupl-oktoberfest-uni-fach-2815985.html
  2. ↑ https://www.merkur.de/lokales/muenchen/stadt-muenchen/gabriele-weishaeupl-meine-leidenschaft-galt-immer-fdp-2695217.html
  3. ↑ http://newsticker.sueddeutsche.de/list/id/1440364 ( Memento from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Weishäupl, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tourism director i. R., former Oktoberfest boss
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau