It started at school

New ÖGB boss: “I’ve never been able to keep quiet”

Sonja Föger-Kalchschmied made the leap to the top of the Tyrolean ÖGB.(Bild: Christof Birbaumer)

The path to the top of the Tyrolean ÖGB was not in her life plan - even though she is a "passionate trade unionist", as she says herself: Sonja Föger-Kalchschmied on the challenges of her new job - and the record she can be proud of. 

First woman to head an ÖGB regional organization: Sonja Föger-Kalchschmied, who was born in Reutten, has held this title since Monday. "And that makes me really proud," she said yesterday on the occasion of her confirmation by a secret ballot of the regional executive committee, in which she achieved 88.5% - "an excellent result" for the first time, explained ÖGB regional managing director Benjamin Praxmarer.