Women mayors
Women are usually only in the second row
The proportion of female mayors in Vorarlberg is below the Austrian average of 10.4 percent ahead of the municipal elections in March. The situation is better for female deputy mayors: Women hold this office in 30 out of 96 Ländle municipalities.
Women are in charge in seven out of 96 Vorarlberg municipalities. The best-known female mayor - even beyond the borders of Vorarlberg - is by far Dornbirn's Andrea Kaufmann. In November 2020, she was elected President of the Vorarlberg Association of Municipalities, and in March 2022 she was elected Vice President of the Austrian Association of Municipalities. The tough Dornbirn native also has a say at federal level and was involved in the most recent financial equalization negotiations as a representative of the Austrian municipalities. Kaufmann, who took over from long-term mayor Wolfgang Rümmele in 2013, was also the first female mayor of a Vorarlberg town to be sworn in. The thoroughbred politician, who does not intend to run again in March, is currently the longest-serving municipal leader.
Bianca Moosbrugger-Petter took office in Reuthe in 2015. In 2019, Katharina Wöß-Krall became the first female mayor in Rankweil. Alexandra Martin (Ragall) was sworn in in 2020, Irmgard Hagspiel (Kennelbach) and Alexandra Schallegg (Ludesch) have been in office since 2021 and 2023 respectively. And last but not least, Wolfurt also got its first female mayor two years ago: Angelika Moosbrugger has held the office of deputy mayor in the market town since 2009.
Keyword deputy mayor: the female gender is much more strongly represented here than at the top of the municipality. Women hold the office of deputy mayor in 30 of Vorarlberg's 96 municipalities. The cities are particularly well represented: with Sandra Schoch (Bregenz), Patricia Tschallener (Hohenems), Andrea Kerbleder (Feldkirch) and Andrea Mallitsch (Bludenz), women are in power in four out of five cities.
Incidentally, the first female mayor in Vorarlberg was in the Bregenzerwald. From 1998 to 2003, Anna Franz (ÖVP) was mayor of Bezau. In the two years that followed, she continued to serve as deputy mayor in her home municipality alongside her work as a member of the National Council.
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