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[[de:| name = Elisabeth Gehrer]]▼

| image = Gehrer Elisabeth 2006 DSCN2500.jpg

| caption = Gehrer in 2006

| office = [[Ministry of Education (Austria)|Minister for Education]]

| term_start = 4 May 1995

| term_end = 11 January 2007

| chancellor = [[Franz Vranitzky]]<br/>[[Viktor Klima]]<br/>[[Wolfgang Schüssel]]

| predecessor = [[Erhard Busek]]

| successor = [[Claudia Schmied]]

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1942|5|11}}

| birth_place = [[Vienna]], Austria

| party = [[Austrian People's Party]]

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| children = 3

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'''Elisabeth Gehrer''' (born''{{nee}}'' May'''Pokorny''', born 11, May 1942) is aan Austrian politician for the [[Austrian People's Party|Conservative]] [[Austria]]n politician(ÖVP). From May 1995 until January 2007, Gehrer was Federal Minister offor Education, Science and Culture, at first in [[grand coalition]] governments headed by [[Franz Vranitzky]] and [[Viktor Klima]] (both [[Social Democratic Party of Austria|SPÖ]]), and, sincefrom 2000, onwards in [[Wolfgang Schüssel]]'s coalition government. SinceFrom 1999 sheto has2007, she also beenserved as vice party chairperson of the [[Austrian People's Party]] (ÖVP).▼

[[Image:E Gehrer.JPG|thumb|250px|Elisabeth Gehrer in an [[ORF]] interview at the beginning of a new schoolyear (September 2005)]]

▲'''Elisabeth Gehrer''' (born May 11, 1942) is a [[Austrian People's Party|Conservative]] [[Austria]]n politician. From 1995 until January 2007 Gehrer was Federal Minister of Education, Science and Culture, at first in [[grand coalition]] governments headed by [[Franz Vranitzky]] and [[Viktor Klima]] (both [[Social Democratic Party of Austria|SPÖ]]), and, since 2000, in [[Wolfgang Schüssel]]'s coalition government. Since 1999 she has also been vice party chairperson of the [[Austrian People's Party]] (ÖVP).

==Biography==

GehrerThe wasdaughter bornof ina [[Vienna]]self-employed butbusinessman and a kindergarten teacher, she was brought up and educated in [[Innsbruck]]. She became a [[primary education|primary school]] [[teacher]] in 1961 and continued teaching in small country schools, until 1966.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Elisabeth+Gehrer/0/21436.html|title = Elisabeth Gehrer - Munzinger Biographie}}</ref>

In 1964, she married Fritz Gehrer, moved to [[Bregenz]], [[Vorarlberg]] and became a homemaker. The couple has three grown-upadult sons, one of whom, Stefan, is a journalist for the [[ORF (broadcaster)|ORF]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/1433689/stefan-gehrer-trocken-vortragen|title=Stefan Gehrer: "Trocken vortragen"|date=7 October 2003|accessdate=31 July 2019|work=[[Der Standard]]}}</ref>

Elisabeth Gehrer started her political career in 1980 as a regional politician in Bregenz. She remained in Vorarlberg in various political positions until her appointment as Federalfederal Ministerminister in 1995.

Gehrer announced her decision to step down in the wake of the [[Austrian legislative election, 2006]], and was succeeded on January 11, January 2007 by [[Claudia Schmied]] and [[Johannes Hahn]].▼

As Minister, Gehrer has been responsible for a number of rather unpopular and controversial measures. In 2001 the government's attempts at achieving a [[balanced budget]] led to the introduction of [[fee|study fees]] at state [[university|universities]] (which had been abolished in the early 1970s by a Social Democratic government under [[Bruno Kreisky]]), in spite of Gehrer's earlier promise that this was not going to happen. Starting in September 2003, the number of lessons per week to be held in Austrian classrooms was generally reduced by two. The Austrian school system being very much a centralized affair, this was a nationwide reduction, affecting both state and private schools. Gehrer's critics see the bad results of the 2003 [[Programme for International Student Assessment|PISA]] study&mdash;a general decline in knowledge and skills among Austria's schoolchildren&mdash;as a direct consequence of her politics.

Gehrer was a Scoutscout leader, National Commissioner for [[Ranger (Girl Guide)|Rangers]] of [[Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs]] and teamed [[Woodbadge]] trainings (i.e. 1976 in WassersprengWassergspreng).<ref>{{cite book▼

Also in 2003, Gehrer publicly mused on what it really is that makes life worth living, insinuating that the young generation were too [[hedonism|hedonistic]] "rushing from party to party" rather than settling down, getting married and having children&mdash;a dictum which, some claim, shows that she is hopelessly out of touch with reality.

| last = Pribich▼

| first = Kurt▼

| title = Logbuch der Pfadfinderverbände in Österreich▼

| publisher = Pfadfinder-Gilde-Österreichs▼

| dateyear = 2004▼

| location = Vienna▼

| pages =253, 264 ▼

| language = German}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=▼

|title = Ministerin Gehrer bei Jamboree-Fotoschau in Baden|language = German | journal =PPÖ-Brief| volume = 4/1999 | pagespage =24| year = 2004|publisher=Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author= Elisabeth Gehrer|coauthorauthor2=Josef Reischl▼

|title =Aus den Stufen-Rover/Ranger |language = German | journal =Wegweiser-Die Führungszeitschrift der Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs| volume = 1/1981 | pages =43-4543–45| year = 1981|publisher=Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=▼

| title =Eingeschlagene Pfade|language = German | journal = Skills-100 Jahre Pfadfinder.Magazin zum Abenteuer des Lebens.|page=104| year = 2007|publisher= Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs und Monopol Verlag }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Kati Kieser|author2=Lisa Niederdorfer

| title =Dabei gewesen|language = German | journal = Skills-Pfadfinderinnen und Aussen.Magazin zum Abenteuer des Lebens.|page=66

| year = 2010|publisher= Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs und Monopol Verlag }}</ref>

==See also==▼

▲Gehrer was a Scout leader, National Commissioner for [[Ranger (Girl Guide)|Rangers]] of [[Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs]] and teamed [[Woodbadge]] trainings (i.e.1976 in Wasserspreng).<ref>{{cite book

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▲ | first = Kurt

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▲ | title = Logbuch der Pfadfinderverbände in Österreich

▲ | publisher = Pfadfinder-Gilde-Österreichs

▲ | date = 2004

▲ | location = Vienna

▲ | pages =253,264

▲ | language = German}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=

▲|title = Ministerin Gehrer bei Jamboree-Fotoschau in Baden|language = German | journal =PPÖ-Brief| volume = 4/1999 | pages =24| year = 2004|publisher=Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author= Elisabeth Gehrer|coauthor=Josef Reischl

▲|title =Aus den Stufen-Rover/Ranger |language = German | journal =Wegweiser-Die Führungszeitschrift der Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs| volume = 1/1981 | pages =43-45| year = 1981|publisher=Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs}}</ref>

==References==▼

▲Gehrer announced her decision to step down in the wake of the [[Austrian legislative election, 2006]] and was succeeded on January 11, 2007 by [[Claudia Schmied]] and [[Johannes Hahn]].

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A [[giraffe]] at [[Tiergarten Schönbrunn Zoo Vienna|Schönbrunn]] born in 2002 is called "Liesl" after the Minister.

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▲*[[Education in Austria]]

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