Gudrun Mosler-Törnström

Gudrun Mosler-Törnström 2012

Gudrun Mosler-Törnström (born October 13, 1955 in Hallein ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). Mosler-Törnström was a member of the Salzburg State Parliament from 1999 to 2018 , including second President of the State Parliament from 2008 .

Since October 19, 2016 President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (the third pillar of the Council of Europe , but is only an advisory body of the Council of Europe ).

education and profession

Mosler-Törnström attended elementary school in Puch near Hallein from 1962 to 1966 and then attended the Hallein secondary school for girls. She then graduated from the three-year technical college for women in business in Annahof (Salzburg) until 1973 and graduated from Leeds High School in Alabama from 1973 to 1974 . She then took over the management of the incoming department at the Salzkraft Salzburg travel agency and went abroad again as an au pair in Paris and Brittany between 1974 and 1975 . She graduated from the Rambouillet language school and stayed in Sweden from 1976 to 1983 . She passed the Swedish Matura and worked as a German teacher and nursing assistant. From 1980 she also worked as a picture editor at “ Aftonbladet ” and from 1983 studied systems science at Stockholm University . In 1986 she completed her studies with a Bachelor of Science and worked from 1986 to 1988 as a systems analyst at Siemens Data in Stockholm. She then moved back to Austria, was employed as an organizational programmer at Mannesmann-Kienzle in Salzburg in 1988 and between 1989 and 1993 worked at the Ergonomics Center in Salzburg, which she took over as head. Between 1994 and 1999 Mosler-Törnström worked as a freelance ergonomics consultant. Since 2002 Mosler-Törnström has also been chairwoman of Naturfreunde Salzburg.

politics

Mosler-Törnström was a member of the Salzburg state parliament from 1999, with a political focus on the fields of economy, energy and research and development. From April 2004 to October 2006 Mosler-Törnström was the third president of the state parliament, after which she was deputy chairwoman of the club. On December 17, 2008, she was elected First President of the State Parliament. From April 22nd, 2009 she was second president of the state parliament. After the state elections in Salzburg in 2018 , she left the state parliament.

Private

Mosler-Törnström is married. She has two sons from a previous relationship and a daughter with her current husband, Rudolf Mosler , labor, economic and European law specialist and Vice Rector of the University of Salzburg .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The new members have a majority in the state parliament . Salzburg state correspondence dated June 12, 2018, accessed on June 12, 2018.
2. ^ Kronen Zeitung , April 26, 2008

Web links

• Gudrun Mosler-Törnström on the website of the Salzburg State Parliament
• Salzburger Nachrichten Gudrun Mosler-Törnström is the new President of the Salzburg State Parliament, December 17, 2008