Margit Fischer

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

Life

Margit Fischer Margit Binder was born in June 1943 in Stockholm and returned in 1949 at the age of six with her ​​parents Anni and Otto Binder - who had emigrated before the Nazi dictatorship from Austria to Sweden - back to Vienna, where she attended school. In 1961 she passed the Matura examination.

Thereafter, she attended the four-year Higher Federal Education and Research Institute for Textile Industry in the fifth district of Vienna Margaret, graduating in 1965 with a diploma examination.

1965 and 1966 Margit Fischer worked as a fabric designer at Pottendorfer textile Werke AG. In 1966 she passed the master's examination of weaving, worked in 1967 Marta Måås - Fjetterström in Stockholm and from 1967 to 1970 as a textile conservator at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. She then spent three years studying art history at the University of Vienna.

Margit Fischer has been married since September 20, 1968 with Heinz Fischer (since 2004 President of the Republic of Austria ) and has two children.

She speaks German, English and Swedish.

Functions

  • Vice President of Save the Child Austria (1992-1998)
  • Chairman of the Austrian Women's Council (since 1993)
  • Chairman of the Association Science Center Network ( since 2005)
  • Honorary President of the Austrian- Swedish Society
  • Margit Fischer supports the " poverty hurts," the Austrian People's Aid

Honors and Awards

  • 2006: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit Pro Merito Melitensi 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 Saint James of the Sword
Order pro merito Melitensi Royal Norwegian Order of Merit Marianne Hainisch Margarete Jonas Edith Klestil Martha Kyrle
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