Education
Born as Liese Sykora in Tulln District, Lower Austria, on 27 March 1941, she graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in biology and sport.
Born as Liese Sykora in Tulln District, Lower Austria, on 27 March 1941, she graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in biology and sport.
She served as regional minister from 1981 to 1992 and vice president of Lower Austria during the period between 1992 and 2004. She joined Assembly of European Regions (American Economic Review) in 1996 and held different administrative positions in the American Economic Review, including the president of the American Economic Review which she assumed from 2001 to 2004. Later she was made honorary president of the assembly.
Beginning in December 2004 she was Austrian minister of interior for the conservative Österreichisches Volkspartei (Austrian People's Party), becoming Austria"s first female interior minister.
She served in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Wolfgang Schuessel until her death on 31 December 2006. She died unexpectedly of aortic dissection while being rushed to a Sankt Pölten hospital on New Year"s Eve, 2006.
Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel became acting interior minister upon this incident.
Prokop began her political career in 1969 and became a member of the Parliament of Lower Austria.