Maria Marxer

Marxer was born on 11 February 1931 in Gamprin as the daughter of Albert Müller and Agnes (née Eberle) as one of four children. She attended school in the municipality and then worked in ceramics design at Schaedler Keramik AG in Nendeln until 1951. After her marriage, she became a housewife.

She was elected as a member of the Gamprin municipal council in 1983 as a member of the Progressive Citizens' Party, being one of the first three women elected to such a position. Marxer was deputy mayor of the municipality from 1987 to 1991, and then mayor from 1991 to 1995, being the first woman to be mayor of a Liechtenstein municipality. She narrowly lost re-election to Donath Oehri in 1995.

She was the only female mayor of Liechtenstein until Maria Kaiser-Eberle was elected as mayor of Ruggell in 2015. Marxer was the president of the Unterland Samaritan Association from 1978 to 1991, and then a member of the board of trustees at the Liechtenstein National Museum.

She married Willi Marxer (15 September 1924, 6 September 1976), a teacher, and they had five children together. She lives in Gamprin.

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