Renate Wohlwend
Renate Wohlwend (born February 20, 1952 in Vienna ) is a Liechtenstein politician. It was a member of the Liechtenstein Parliament from 1993 to 2013 .
biography
The native Austrian grew up in Melk and attended the secondary school in St. Pölten . She studied philosophy, history and law at the University of Vienna and Linz . She was granted Liechtenstein citizenship through marriage in 1978, and in the same year she completed an internship at the regional court in Vaduz . From 1979 she was employed as a lawyer and trustee , in 1994 she became self-employed.
Wohlwend was elected to the state parliament of the Principality of Liechtenstein for the first time in 1993 for the progressive citizens' party . There she remained a member of parliament until 1997. Between 1997 and 2000 Wohlwend was a deputy member of the state parliament and was again a member of the parliament in the course of the 2001 elections. As a member of parliament, she was head of the delegation in various Liechtenstein delegations, for example from 2001 to 2008 in the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and from 2007 to 2008 in the delegation in the parliamentary committee of the EFTA and EEA countries. Before that, from 2001 to 2005 she was head of the Liechtenstein delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly . Since 2009 she has only been a member of the Liechtenstein delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Wohlwend has been a member of the EEA Commission since 2003 and the Foreign Affairs Commission since 2009. After the state elections in 2009 , she was elected the new vice-president of the state parliament at the opening session of the new state parliament, replacing her predecessor Ivo Klein . In the state elections in February 2013 , Wohlwend no longer stood as a candidate and thus left the state parliament.
In 2013 she was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Princely Liechtenstein Order of Merit .
Web links
- HLFL editor: Wohlwend, Renate. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein .
- Entry on the side of the state parliament
Individual evidence
- ^ Awarding of medals and titles at Vaduz Castle , June 20, 2013, Liechtensteiner Volksblatt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wohlwend, Renate |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Liechtenstein politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |