{{Short description|Mayor of Gamprin from 1991 to 1995}} {{Infobox politician | office = Mayor of Gamprin | term_start = February 1991 | term_end = February 1995 | predecessor = Lorenz Haslerr | successor = Donath Oehri | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1931|02|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Gamprin, Liechtenstein | spouse = {{marriage|Willi Marxer|1952|1976|end=died}} | children = 5 | party = Progressive Citizens' Party | deputy = Kuno Hasler<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 February 1991 |title=Gruppenbild mit Dame: Vorsteher und Vizevorsteher im Alten Landtagssaal |url=https://www.eliechtensteinensia.li/viewer/image/000476564_1991/599/LOG_0040/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251009123146/https://www.eliechtensteinensia.li/viewer/image/000476564_1991/599/LOG_0040 |archive-date=9 October 2025 |access-date=9 October 2025 |work=Liechtensteiner Volksblatt |pages=3 |language=de}}</ref> }} '''Maria Marxer''' (born 11 February 1931) is a former politician from Liechtenstein who served as the mayor of Gamprin from 1991 to 1995. She is the first female Liechtenstein mayor.
== Life == 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=14 February 2024 |title=Marxer, Maria |url=https://historisches-lexikon.li/Marxer,_Maria |access-date=27 September 2025 |website=Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein |language=de}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=30 June 2018 |title=Bis heute eine fröhliche Kämpfernatur |url=https://www.vaterland.li/liechtenstein/gesellschaft/naeherdran/gamprinbendern/bis-heute-eine-froehliche-kaempfernatur-art-336952 |access-date=27 September 2025 |work=Liechtensteiner Vaterland |language=de}}</ref> She narrowly lost re-election to Donath Oehri in 1995.<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 January 1991 |title=Gemeindewahlen 1995 |url=https://www.eliechtensteinensia.li/viewer/image/000476564_1995/341/LOG_0026/ |access-date=3 June 2025 |work=Liechtensteiner Volksblatt |pages=3–5 |language=de}}</ref>
She was the only female mayor of Liechtenstein until Maria Kaiser-Eberle was elected as mayor of Ruggell in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 March 2015 |title=Liechtenstein hat zweite Frau als Vorsteherin |url=https://www.vaterland.li/liechtenstein/gesellschaft/gemeinden/liechtenstein-hat-zweite-frau-als-vorsteherin-art-119384 |access-date=27 September 2025 |work=Liechtensteiner Vaterland |language=de}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" />
She married Willi Marxer (15 September 1924 – 6 September 1976), a teacher, and they had five children together.<ref name=":0" /> She lives in Gamprin.<ref name=":1" />
== Honours ==
* {{Flag|Liechtenstein}}: Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Principality of Liechtenstein<ref name=":0" />
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