Cornelia Ecker (born 27 February 1976) is an

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n politician and former member of the National Council. A member of the

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, she represented Salzburg from October 2013 to September 2023. She has been mayor of

Bürmoos Bürmoos is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg in Austria. History Bürmoos was founded in 1967, making it the most recently created municipality in the state, by combining the outskirts of the neighbour ...

since June 2023. Ecker was born on 27 February 1976 in

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. She studied at a business academy ( Handelsakademie) from 1990 to 1995. She was a

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for

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from 1996 to 1999. She has been a

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of Biohofmetzgerei Hainz, an

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, since 2004. She has held various positions in the Salzburg branch of the

(SPÖ) since 2009. She has been a member of the

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in Bürmoos since 2004. She was elected to the National Council at the 2013 legislative election. She became mayor of Bürmoos in June 2023. She subsequently resigned from the National Council in September 2023 and was replaced by Michaela Schmidt.

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