Herma Kirchschläger | |
Honorific-Suffix: | GCIH |
Office: | First Lady of Austria |
Term Label: | In role |
Term Start: | 8 July 1974 |
Term End: | 8 July 1986 |
Predecessor: | Margarete Jonas |
Successor: | Elisabeth Waldheim |
President: | Rudolf Kirchschläger |
Birthname: | Hermine Katharina Anna Sorger |
Birth Date: | 15 May 1916 |
Birth Place: | Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
Death Place: | Vienna, Austria |
Spouse: | Rudolf Kirchschläger (1940–2000; his death) |
Children: | Christa Walter |
Herma Katharina Anna Kirchschläger, GCIH (née Sorger) (15 May 1916 in Vienna - 30 May 2009 in Vienna[1]) was the wife of Rudolf Kirchschläger, the former minister of foreign affairs and later federal president of Austria. They married on 17 August 1940[2] and they had two children: Christa (born 14 August 1944) and Walter (born 27 April 1947).[3]