Edith Klestil was the first wife of Thomas Klestil

Thomas Klestil

Thomas Klestil was an Austrian diplomat and politician. He was elected the tenth President of Austria in 1992 and was re-elected to the position in 1998...

, the former federal president of Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

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Edith Klestil was born in Vienna, the only child of post office worker Leopold Wielander and his wife, Rosa. On 8 June 1967 she married Thomas Klestil, whom she met when they were both 17. She gave up her job in order to support her husband's career as a diplomat and accompanied him to Paris and Los Angeles. When her husband was elected federal president in 1992, she became Austria's first lady

First Lady

First Lady or First Gentlemanis the unofficial title used in some countries for the spouse of an elected head of state.It is not normally used to refer to the spouse or partner of a prime minister; the husband or wife of the British Prime Minister is usually informally referred to as prime...

. Two years later, Thomas Klestil made public that he had a love affair with the much younger diplomat Margot Löffler

Margot Klestil-Löffler

Margot Klestil-Löffler is an Austrian diplomat and the widow of Thomas Klestil, the former federal president of Austria. Her parents, Karl Löffler and Gerda Löffler, were farmers....

. Edith left her husband and they were divorced in September 1998. Three months later, Thomas Klestil married Margot Löffler.

When Thomas Klestil died in office on 6 July 2004, both his wives attended the funeral service held in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.

It was announced on 3 April 2011 that Klestil had died of cancer in Vienna.