Violanda Lanter
Violanda Lanter | |
|---|---|
Lanter in 2019 | |
| Member of the Landtag of Liechtenstein for Unterland | |
| In office 3 February 2013 – 7 February 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1964 Sissach, Switzerland |
| Party | Patriotic Union |
| Spouse(s) |
Paul Koller
(m. 1995, divorced)Hagen Pöhnert (m. 2018) |
| Children | 2 |
Violanda Lanter (formerly Violanda Lanter-Koller; born 1 January 1964) is a lawyer and politician Liechtenstein who served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 2013 to 2021. A member of the Patriotic Union (VU), she served as the party's spokeswoman in the Landtag from 2017 to 2018, previously serving as Vice president of the Landtag from 2013 to 2017.
Life
Lanter was born on 1 January 1964 in Sissach as the daughter of entrepreneur Rudolf Lanter and Isolde (née Büchel) as one of four children. She attended grammar school Vaduz before studying law at the University of St. Gallen from 1984 to 1990; she completed legal traineeships in Rorschach and St. Gallen before being admitted to the St. Gallen bar in 1993. From 1994 to 1996 she worked as a lawyer in Vaduz, and then was the head of the legal department of LGT Treuhand in Vaduz from 1996 to 2000. She was the chair of the board of directors at Liechtensteinische Kraftwerke from 2000 to 2004.[1]
Lanter-Koller was a member of the Ruggell municipal council from 1999 to 2003 as a member of the Patriotic Union (VU), and then a legal advisor to Klaus Tschütscher from 2005 to 2011. In 2013, she was elected as a member of the Landtag of Liechtenstein as a member of the Patriotic Union (VU).[1] During this time, she was the vice president of the Landtag from 2013 to 2017 and the VU's spokeswoman in the Landtag from 2017 to 2018, the latter role she acted in a provisional manner;[1][2][3] she was the party's designated nominee to serve as the President of the Landtag should the party have won the 2017 elections.[4]
In addition Lanter supported, among other things, the changing of the ownership strategies of the Liechtensteinische Kraftwerke and Liechtenstein Gas Supply, and an amendment to the social social assistance law to clarify regarding people being placed in institutions or psychiatric clinics unwillingly.[5][6] She did not seek re-election to the Landtag in the 2021 elections, and then served as a deputy government councillor to Dominique Hasler from 2021 to 2025.[7][8]
Lanter married Paul Koller on 9 June 1995 and they had two children together, but they got divorced at an unspecified time. She then went on to marry Hagen Pöhnert, an electrical engineer, on 10 October 2018. She lives in Ruggell.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "Lanter, Violanda". Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein (in German). 22 April 2025. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
- ^ "Violanda Lanter-Koller wird neue VU-Fraktionssprecherin". Liechtensteiner Vaterland (in German). 10 February 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
- ^ "Günter Vogt wird VU-Fraktionssprecher". Liechtensteiner Vaterland (in German). 19 December 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
- ^ "VU schlägt Violanda Lanter-Koller als Landtagspräsidentin vor". Liechtensteiner Vaterland (in German). 21 November 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
- ^ "Land schöpft bei LKW und LGV Gewinn ab". Liechtensteiner Vaterland (in German). 2 October 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
- ^ Becker, Damian (4 December 2020). "Zwangseinweisungen von Geisteskranken". Liechtensteiner Vaterland (in German). Retrieved 11 March 2026.
- ^ Vogt, Desiree (7 December 2020). "Landtag: "Viel zu oft ein Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeiten"". Liechtensteiner Vaterland (in German). Retrieved 4 February 2026.
- ^ "Dominique Hasler wird neue Aussenministerin". Liechtensteiner Vaterland (in German). 18 March 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2026.