Sabine Oberhauser (30 August 1963 – 23 February 2017) was an

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n physician and politician. At the time of her death, she was Austria's Minister for Health and Minister for Women.

Biography

Oberhauser was born in

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. In 2014, she became a minister in the Social Democrat-Christian Conservative coalition government of then-Chancellor

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. She continued as Minister for Health when

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took over the coalition two years later. The same year, she became the Minister for Women. She made her diagnosis of abdominal cancer public in 2015. Oberhauser was married and had two daughters. Oberhauser entered hospital in February 2017 for treatment of a ventricular fuse, and announced on 15 February that

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would stand in for her during her illness. However, her condition soon deteriorated and she died a week later, on 23 February 2017. She was 53. She was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering; her ashes are buried in

Hietzing Cemetery The Hietzing Cemetery is a cemetery in Hietzing, the 13th district of Vienna. Notable burials (selection) * Alban Berg (1885–1935), composer * Jean-Baptiste Clery (1759–1809), valet to King Louis XVI * Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852 ...

in Vienna.

References

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