Eleonora Hostasch

Eleonora "Lore" Hostasch (born 9 July 1944) is an Austrian politician and trade union leader.

[1] Hostasch, as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), sat on the Gemeinderat and Landtag of Vienna from 1987 until she was elected to the National Council in 1989.

In January 1997 she was named Minister for Labour, Health and Social Affairs under Chancellor Viktor Klima.

[1] In Klima's cabinet she introduced reforms to the pension system (making early retirement less common) and to health care (forming the Fonds Gesundes Österreich [de] in 1998, among other things).

Hostasch left government in 2000, following the SPÖ's losses in the 1999 legislative election.