chancellor predecessor successor birth_place party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name alma_mater
alfred gusenbauer wolfgang schüssel alfred gusenbauer josef pröll günther platter michael spindelegger johanna mikl-leitner attnang-puchheim , austria austrian people 's party minister of finance minister of the interior 1 february 1956 21 april 2011 1 july 2008 maria 2011.jpg theresia fekter - world economic forum on europe maria fekter
 16 december 2013 21 april 2011 maria fekter university of linz
maria fekter

maria theresia fekter is an austrian politician -lrb- Övp -rrb- and was the austrian minister of finance between 2011 and 2013 .
before that , she was minister of the interior .
on 27 june 2008 , it was announced by her party that she was to be appointed as the new interior minister in the gusenbauer cabinet , following günther platter , who became the new governor of tyrol .
during her career as interior minister , she became known as a hardliner , especially when it came to immigration and asylum policies , earning her the unofficial title of an austrian `` iron lady '' .
because her family made a fortune producing gravel she is often referred to as `` schottermitzi '' -lrb- roughly translates to `` gravel mary '' ; ` mitzi ' is the colloquial nickname form of mary in viennese dialect -rrb- .
