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Name
  
Margit Fischer

Role
  
Heinz Fischer's wife


Spouse
  
Heinz Fischer (m. 1968)

Children
  
Lisa Fischer

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Margit Fischer (née Binder; born 28 June 1943 in Stockholm, Sweden) is the wife of Heinz Fischer, the former president of Austria.

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Her parents, Otto and Anna Binder, were social democrats and Jews and had to emigrate to Sweden during the Nazi regime. Mrs Fischer speaks Swedish fluently. In 1949, her family returned to Austria. She attended grammar school in Vienna and started to study arts at the University of Vienna. In 1968, she married Heinz Fischer, a social democratic politician. In 2004, her husband was elected federal president and she became first lady of Austria. The couple has two children: Philip (born 1972) and Lisa (born 1975).

Functions in Austria

  • Former Vice-President of Rettet das Kind Österreich (Save the Children Austria) (1992-1998)
  • Former President of Verein zur Gründung und zum Betrieb einer Erlebnisausstellung zu den Naturwissenschaften (Association for the creation and operation of an interactive exhibition about the natural sciences) (1993-2000)
  • Chairperson of Österreichischer Frauenrat (Austrian Women's Council) (since 1995)
  • Chairperson of Science Center Netzwerk (Science Center Network Society) (since 2005)

    • Awards

  • 2006 -  SMOM :Grand Cross of Merit Order pro merito Melitensi of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
  • 2007 -  Sweden : Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star
  • 2009 -  Portugal : Grand Cross of the Order of Saint James of the Sword
  • 2013 -  Luxembourg : Grand Cross of the Order of Adolphe of Nassau (2013)

    • References

    Margit Fischer Wikipedia
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