Walburga Habsburg Douglas

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Walburga Habsburg Douglas (2009)
Walburga Habsburg Douglas at the Bok & Bibliotek 2011 fair

Walburga Maria Helene Elisabeth Franziska Habsburg Douglas b. Habsburg-Lothringen (born October 5, 1958 in Berg am Starnberger See) is an Austrian - Swedish lawyer and politician who was a member of the Swedish Reichstag from 2006 to 2014 . Her marriage made her Countess Douglas in Sweden .

Life

Origin, education and start of career

Walburga Habsburg-Lothringen, the youngest daughter of Otto von Habsburg and his wife Regina von Habsburg , studied after the Abitur in 1977 in Bavaria Tutzing 1977-1982 Law at the University of Salzburg and a doctorate in canon law .

From 1979 to 1992 she worked as a parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament . In 1983 she trained at the National Journalism Center in Washington, DC and did an internship in the Washington office of Reader's Digest . From 1985 to 1992 she worked as Information Commissioner (Europe) for the Ministry of Information of the Sultanate of Oman .

Political activities

In 1975 she was co-founder of the Paneuropa-Jugend Deutschland, state chairwoman of Bavaria , deputy national chairwoman. In 1977 she founded the Brüsewitz Center (Christian-Pan-European Studies). From 1980 to 1987/88 she was Deputy Secretary General of the international Paneuropean Union until 2004 . Since 2004 she has been its executive chairwoman.

On August 19, 1989, she was co-organizer of the Pan-European Picnic at the Iron Curtain , on the border between Hungary and Austria , when the barbed wire was cut for the first time, so that more than 660 Germans were able to flee from the GDR and thus from the Soviet sphere of power - the biggest wave of refugees since the building of the Berlin Wall - an event which for many symbolizes the fall of communism .

Since 2003 she has been chairman of the conservative Moderata samlingspartiet (Moderate Collection Party) in the municipality of Flen , Sweden, and since 2003 member of the board of the Moderata samlingspartiet in Sörmland . Since 2005 she has been a board member of the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation, the Moderata samlingspartiet's party foundation.

In 1999 and 2004 she was a candidate for the European Parliament on the list of Moderata samlingspartiet. In 2002 she ran for the first time in the elections to the Swedish Reichstag , since the elections in 2006 and 2010 she sat in it for her party until 2014. She was a member of various committees of the Reichsrat.

She is the head of the Swedish delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly . At the 2011 Assembly in Belgrade she was elected Vice-President. In the previous two periods she was Chair of the Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs and before that Vice-Chair and Rapporteur. In February 2008 she was elected Chairperson of the European People's Party in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.

Honorary positions and memberships

Walburga Habsburg Douglas has been a board member of the Arab International Media Forum in London since 2004. Since 2009 she has been chairwoman of the European Women's Union. She is Lady of the Sovereign Order of Malta .

family

Walburga Habsburg-Lothringen married the Swedish Count Archibald Douglas in Budapest in December 1992 and has been using the double name Habsburg Douglas ever since . The marriage resulted in a son (* 1994). The family lives at Ekensholm Castle near Malmköping in Sweden .

Web links

Commons : Walburga Habsburg Douglas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Rauscher : "I thought that could be the beginning of something". Walburga Habsburg Douglas, Otto Habsburg's youngest daughter, organized the event on the border at the time. Interview in: Der Standard , August 16, 2009, accessed on October 18, 2019.
  2. ↑ Sveriges ridderskaps och adels kalender 2013 , Grevliga ätten Douglas, N: o 19. Riddarhuset , 2013.
  3. ↑ a b Dr. Walburga Habsburg Douglas. (PDF) Curriculum Vitae as of July 2009 on the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung website , accessed on October 18, 2019.
  4. ↑ Emperor's granddaughter Walburga Habsburg no longer in the Swedish Reichstag. Lost seat due to Conservative election failure - Finished last working day as a member of parliament after eight years. In: Der Standard / APA , September 26, 2014, accessed October 18, 2019.
  5. ^ Walburga Habsburg Douglas (M): Current and previous assignments. ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Entry at the Swedish Reichstag. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
  6. ↑ Vice-Presidents. Walburga Habsburg Douglas (Sweden). ( Memento of July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Entry at the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
  7. ^ Walburga Habsburg Douglas elected chairperson of the EPP Group in the OSCE PA. ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Press release of the European People's Party (English). Retrieved May 8, 2012.
  8. ^ European Women's Union: Walburga Habsburg Douglas elected as new chairman. In: dieStandard.at , June 29, 2009. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Habsburg Douglas, Walburga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Habsburg Douglas, Countess Walburga Maria Helene Elisabeth Franziska (full name); Habsburg-Lothringen, Walburga Maria Helene Elisabeth Franziska (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Swedish lawyer and politician (Moderata samlingspartiet)
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountain on Lake Starnberg