Grete Laska

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Grete Laska, Vienna 2008
Vienna City Marathon 2008: Grete Laska tests her starter horn

Margarete Laska , publicly known as Grete Laska, until 1991 Margarete Dumser (born May 30, 1951 in Vienna ), is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). Until March 2009 she was Deputy Mayor of the City of Vienna and acting city ​​councilor for youth, education, information and sport.

School and professional career

After graduating from high school, Grete Laska attended the Pedagogical Academy. After teaching for elementary schools , she also passed the teaching examination for secondary schools (German, physics, physical exercises ) and then entered the service of the Vienna City School Council .

Political career

Grete Laska was involved in the social democratic movement, worked in the Central Association of Vienna Teachers from 1974 and was a federal young teacher representative . From 1979 to 1982 she worked as a pedagogical area consultant for the Wiener Kinderfreunde , a support organization of the SPÖ, in the 3rd district of Vienna, Landstrasse . Since 1979 she has been a member of the district committee of the SPÖ Landstrasse. In 1982 she was elected chairwoman of the Landstraßer Kinderfreunde and remained so until 1991.

In 1984 Laska, at that time Dumser, moved to the Viennese state parliament and local council after the state and municipal council elections in Vienna in 1983 , for which she had stood as a candidate on the SPÖ list , where she was deputy club chairman from 1988. From 1991 to 1994 she was also state party secretary of the SPÖ Vienna. In 1994 she accepted Michael Häupl , who had taken over the mayor's office from Helmut Zilk , as deputy governor and deputy mayor of the state government or the city senate (see state government and city senate Häupl I ). As the current city councilor, she was responsible for education, youth, family, social affairs, women's issues and sport, from 1996, when the SPÖ had to form a coalition with the ÖVP , excluding the areas of women's issues and family (see state government and city senate Häupl II ). As of July 1, 2004, her department comprised the areas of education, youth, information and sport (see state government and city senate Häupl IV ).

On March 23, 2009, she announced that she was stepping down for personal reasons. The previous SPÖ club chairman Christian Oxonitsch became the new city councilor on March 26, 2009 , while City Councilor for Housing Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) was her successor as (second) vice mayor of the city of Vienna.

Laska was a member of the following Viennese provincial governments and city senates:

See also:

Private

Laska has been married to Helmut Laska, a social democratic manager, for the second time since 1991 and has four children.

In 1987 she was elected to the local council as Margarete Dumser, but appeared in the November 1991 election as Grete Laska. Your exact marriage dates are not recorded on the web.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ORF Vienna: Laska: "Full-time grandmother" instead of city councilor

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personal data
SURNAME Laska, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laska, Margarete (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna