Ursula Stenzel

Ursula Stenzel (born September 22, 1945 in Leopoldstadt, Vienna) is an Austrian politician and was a Member of the European Parliament until 2006. Until September 2015, she was a member of the Austrian People's Party. She is also a former member of the bureau of the European People's Party, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

She is also chair of the delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula, a member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, and a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

Since 2005, Stenzel has been Bezirksvorsteherin (district mayor) of Innere Stadt, Vienna's downtown district. She stepped down after the 2015 elections and was succeeded by Markus Figl (ÖVP).

Family

Stenzel was born in a Catholic family of Jewish descent. Her father was engineer of the North railway. Her mother was the daughter of a rabbi and chazzan in the Rotensterngasse, Leopoldstadt.