Margit Fischer

Margit Fischer 2012

Margit Fischer (born June 28, 1943 in Stockholm as Margit Binder ) is the wife of the former Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer .

Life

Margit Fischer was born as Margit Binder in Stockholm in June 1943 and moved in 1949 at the age of six with her parents Anni and Otto Binder - who had emigrated from Austria to Sweden before the Nazi dictatorship - to Vienna, where they attended school. Her brother Lennart was born in 1948 and is now a recognized lawyer and human rights activist .

In 1961 she graduated from high school . She then attended the four-year Federal Higher Education and Research Institute for the Textile Industry in the fifth Viennese district of Margareten , from which she graduated in 1965 with a diploma .

In 1965 and 1966 Margit Fischer worked as a fabric designer at Pottendorfer Textilwerke AG. In 1966 she passed the master craftsman's examination in weaving , worked in 1967 at Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB in Stockholm and from 1967 to 1970 as a textile restorer at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. She then studied art history for three years at the University of Vienna .

Margit Fischer has been married to Heinz Fischer (former Federal President of the Republic of Austria) since September 20, 1968 and has two children. She speaks German, English and Swedish.

Functions

• Vice-President of Save the Child Austria (1992–1998)
• Chairwoman of the Austrian Women's Council (since 1993)
• Chair of the ScienceCenter Network Association (since 2005)
• Honorary President of the Austro-Swedish Society
• Margit Fischer supports the "Poverty hurts" campaign by the Austrian People's Aid

honors and awards

• 2006: Grand Cross of the Pro Merito Melitensi Order of Merit of the Sovereign Order of Malta
• 2007: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 2007: Grand Cross of the Norwegian Order of Merit
• 2009: Grand Cross of the Order of St. Jacob of the Sword
• 2012: Ix-Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika
• 2019: Viktor Frankl Prize of Honor

Publications

• 2015: What we pass on , together with Barbara Tóth , Brandstätter-Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85033-925-4

Web links

Commons : Margit Fischer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Presidential Chancellery of the Republic of Austria - Margit Fischer's curriculum vitae ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maltese Cross ( Memento from June 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Margit Fischer awarded the Viktor Frankl Prize . OTS announcement of May 22, 2019, accessed May 22, 2019.