Sabine Oberhauser
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Sabine Oberhauser (30 August 1963 – 23 February 2017) was an Austrian physician and politician.[1] At the time of her death, she was Austria's Minister for Health and Minister for Women.[2]
Biography
Oberhauser was born in Vienna.[1] In 2014, she became a minister in the Social Democrat-Christian Conservative coalition government of then-Chancellor Werner Faymann. She continued as Minister for Health when Christian Kern took over the coalition two years later.[2] The same year, she became the Minister for Women. She made her diagnosis of abdominal cancer public in 2015.[2]
Personal life
Oberhauser was married and had two daughters.[1]
Oberhauser entered hospital in February 2017 for treatment of a ventricular fuse, and announced on 15 February that Alois Stöger would stand in for her during her illness.[2] However, her condition soon deteriorated and she died a week later, on 23 February 2017. She was 53.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "Obituary". orf.at. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Austrian Health Minister Oberhauser dies". Reuters. 2017-02-23. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
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- 1963 births
- 2017 deaths
- Politicians from Vienna
- Social Democratic Party of Austria politicians
- Women government ministers of Austria
- Austrian women physicians
- Austrian women in politics
- 20th-century Austrian physicians
- 21st-century Austrian physicians
- 21st-century Austrian politicians
- 21st-century women politicians