Peter Marxer

Peter Marxer (11 May 1933 – 30 May 2016) was an advocate and political figure from Liechtenstein who served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 1966 to 1982. He was also the president of the Progressive Citizens' Party from 1970 to 1982 and oversaw the law firm Marxer & Partner Rechtsanwälte from 1962 until his death.

Life Marxer was born on 11 May 1933 in Vaduz to lawyer and then deputy prime minister Ludwig Marxer and Maria Öhri as one of three children. He attended secondary school in Vaduz and Sarnen from 1944 to 1953. He then went on to study law in the University of Innsbruck from 1953, where he received a doctorate in 1957. From 1963 to 1990, Marxer was a member of the board of directors LGT Group.

Marxer entered politics as a member of the Progressive Citizens' Party, where he founded and served of the first president of the party's youth wing, Young FBP, from 1963 to 1970. He was a member of the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 1966 to 1982 and was also the party's spokesman in the Landtag from 1967 to 1982. During this time, Marxer spearheaded the creation of the foreign policy commission and the state committee in the Landtag.

He served as the president of the Liechtensteiner Volksblatt press association from 1984 to 1992. He was also an honorary member of the Balzers men's choir from 1969, the Harmoniemusik Eschen from 1974, Choral Society Eschen from 1982 and finally the Liechtenstein Musical Company from 2005.

Personal life Marxer married Ingeborg Huber on 28 October 1958 and they had four children together, but got divorced at an unspecified time. He then married Renate Waldhuber on 17 January 1975 and had another two children.