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Maria Foser

Liechtensteiner politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ125774627 ↗
Source-derived summary

Maria Foser-Beck is a Liechtensteiner politician. She was the first woman to serve as Deputy Government Councillor for Social Affairs.

Biography

In 1984, Prince Franz Joseph II appointed Foser-Beck as Deputy Government Councillor for Social Affairs of Liechtenstein (Regierungsrat-Stellvertreterin), the same year that Liechtensteiner women obtained the right to vote. She was the first woman to hold this office. Foser served as Deputy Councillor from 1984 to 1993.

Foser-Beck lives in Triesenberg and is a member of the Liechtenstein Samaritan Association.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Maria Foser” is liechtensteiner politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Maria, Foser and Liechtensteiner, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Maria, Foser and Liechtensteiner is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “liechtensteiner politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q125774627. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maria Foser” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.