Margit Fischer


Margit Fischer is an Austrian former fabric designer and First Lady of Austria from 2006 until 2016 as the wife of former president Heinz Fischer.

Biography

Fischer was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her parents, Otto and Anna Binder, were social democrats and Jews who fled 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 began studying arts at the University of Vienna. In 1968, she married Heinz Fischer, a social democratic politician. In 2004, her husband was elected Austrian president and she became the First Lady of Austria. The couple have two children: Philip and Lisa.

Functions in Austria