Receives a grave of honor

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Short-term Federal Chancellor Brigitte Bierlein after her inauguration on June 3, 2019(Bild: APA/ROLAND SCHLAGER)

The funeral service for Austria's first female chancellor Brigitte Bierlein will take place on June 14. Exactly five years after her inauguration, the 74-year-old died this week after a short, serious illness.

The "state funeral" will begin with the coffin being laid out in St. Stephen's Cathedral. After a requiem, Bierlein will be buried in a grave of honor at the Central Cemetery. Austria's first female head of government and President of the Constitutional Court died last Monday shortly before her 75th birthday.

Laying in state lasts three hours
The laying in state will be public and will last from 7 to 10 am. An hour later, the requiem will begin, in which the deceased will be remembered. Later in the day, her body will be laid to rest at the central cemetery.

Bierlein was one of the most colorful lawyers in the country. She worked for the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office and Senior Public Prosecutor's Office, the Procurator General's Office and the Constitutional Court, which she also headed between 2018 and 2019.

Following the Ibiza scandal, the Viennese was appointed Chancellor of a government of experts by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen.