Martina Rüscher

Martina Rüscher (2019)

Martina Rüscher (born July 25, 1972 in Innsbruck ; born Martina Valentini ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and communications consultant. She has been a member of the Vorarlberg state government since 2019 as a state councilor for health and sport and was previously a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 2014 to 2019 and, from 2018, second vice-president of the state parliament.

education and profession

Martina Valentini was born in Innsbruck in 1972 and grew up in Landeck in the Tyrolean Oberinntal . From 1986 to 1991 she attended the higher federal college for economic professions in Innsbruck and graduated from there. She then studied from 1991 to 1993 at the Business and Foreign Language Academy of the University of Salzburg .

In 1993 she started her professional life at Handl Tyrol in Pians , where Martina Valentini worked in the internal export department. From 1995 to 1996 she was employed by Art Verlag in Innsbruck as head of the purchasing department. In 1996 Martina Valentini married the Vorarlberg physiotherapist Michael Rüscher and moved to Andelsbuch in the Bregenzerwald . At the same time, she took a new job at Zumtobel Staff GmbH in Dornbirn , where she worked as an assistant in the marketing communications department. In 1998 Martina Rüscher finally set up her own business with Martina Rüscher Event Management , and in 2003 she founded VIA3 Communications .

In 2010 Martina Rüscher was certified as a project manager, in 2012 she completed the academic course in business organization. In 2014 she received an MBA in General Management Competences from Danube University Krems . By 2015 she completed the PR and Integrated Communication course at the University of Krems and graduated with an MSc .

Political activity

Martina Rüscher joined the Economic Association in 1998 and thus the Austrian People's Party . She has been a member of the community council in her home community Andelsbuch since 2000 . Her candidacy for the Vorarlberg People's Party only became known in the run-up to the state elections in Vorarlberg in 2014 . In the election itself, Martina Rüscher was able to obtain a state parliament mandate in the Bregenz constituency and was thus sworn in as a member of the state parliament for the first time on October 15, 2014. In the state parliament of the 30th legislative period , Martina Rüscher was subsequently area spokeswoman for the ÖVP state parliament club for the topics of health, women and childcare.

Since March 4, 2015, Martina Rüscher has succeeded Greti Schmid as the country leader of the women's movement in the Vorarlberg People's Party. At the state party conference of the Vorarlberg People's Party on May 9, 2015, Rüscher was elected as one of the deputies of the state party leader. At the state parliament session on January 31, 2018, Martina Rüscher succeeded her party colleague Gabriele Nussbaumer, who had left the state parliament, as the second vice- president of the state parliament.

In October 2019, in the run-up to the state elections on October 13, the Vorarlberg People's Party proposed Martina Rüscher as the successor to Regional Councilor Christian Bernhard . Bernhard had previously announced that after the election he would no longer be available as a regional councilor for health and culture. In the constituent state parliament session of the 31st legislative period on November 6, 2019, Rüscher was elected regional councilor by the Vorarlberg state parliament. As regional councilor, Martina Rüscher is responsible for health and sport, equal opportunities and disability, social psychiatry and addiction, sanitary matters, as well as food safety and consumer protection.

Private life

Martina Rüscher has lived in the Bregenzerwald since 1996 . She has been married since 1997, has three sons and lives with her family in Andelsbuch .

Web links

Commons : Martina Rüscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Presentation of Martina Rüscher on the website of the Vorarlberg state government.
• Biography of Martina Rüscher in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.
• Presentation of Martina Rüscher on the website of her company VIA3 Communications.
• Martina Rüscher at www.meineabektiven.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martina Rüscher new head of the ÖVP women's association in Vorarlberg. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). March 5, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ÖVP boss Wallner elected with 97.93 percent. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . May 9, 2015, accessed October 4, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Schöbi-Fink is to follow Mennel. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . January 10, 2018, accessed January 10, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Outgoing state councils praise their successors. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . October 3, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 .