Karl Nehammer

Karl Nehammer (2020)

Karl Nehammer (born October 18, 1972 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and since January 7  , 2020 Federal Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Austria in the Federal Government Kurz II . From January 2018 to January 2020 he was General Secretary of the ÖVP and from 9 November 2017 to 7 January 2020 a member of the Austrian National Council .

Life

Karl Nehammer attended the college in Kalksburg and the grammar school Amerlingstrasse , where he graduated in 1992 . Subsequently, he served as one-year volunteer in the Austrian army with subsequent further obligation until 1996. 1997 he became a lieutenant retired . He then worked as a teaching trainer for information officers for the Federal Ministry for National Defense and as a trainer for strategic communication for various institutions such as the Vocational Promotion Institute (BFI) and the Political Academy of the ÖVP . From 2012 he completed the political communication course under Peter Filzmaier at Danube University Krems ; He completed the university course in 2014 with a Master of Science certification , which does not correspond to the academic degree of the same name, Master of Science .

He is a member of the KÖStV Sonnberg Perchtoldsdorf in the MKV . His father-in-law is the former ORF presenter Peter Nidetzky . Karl Nehammer is married to Katharina Nehammer, who was appointed Deputy Head of Cabinet in the Ministry of Defense under Klaudia Tanner at the beginning of 2020 and who had previously worked for Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka as spokeswoman and cabinet member and later moved to parliament with him. In July 2020, her move to the private sector became known.

politics

In October 2015 he was appointed Deputy General Secretary and Federal Organizational Officer of the Austrian Workers' Federation (ÖAAB). From 2016 to January 2018 he was Secretary General of the ÖAAB. He succeeded August Wöginger in this function . In November 2016 he was elected regional chairman of the ÖAAB Vienna. Since April 2017 he has been district party chairman of the ÖVP in Vienna- Hietzing .

In the 2017 National Council election , he ran for the Vienna electoral district . On November 8, 2017, he was elected as the ÖVP club chairman's deputy. In the course of the formation of the federal government shortly after the National Council election, he negotiated on the ÖVP side in the national defense specialist group. He acted as media spokesman in the ÖVP parliamentary club , and in September 2018 he also became the integration and migration spokesman as the successor to Efgani Dönmez .

On January 25, 2018, he succeeded Elisabeth Köstinger and Stefan Steiner as ÖVP General Secretary . Christoph Zarits succeeded him as General Secretary of the ÖAAB .

In the 2019 National Council election, he ran for fifth place on the ÖVP Vienna list and 11th place on the ÖVP federal list. The ÖVP sent him to the federal electoral authority for the 2019 National Council election . In the course of the coalition negotiations in 2019 , he negotiated the topics of Europe, migration, integration and security.

Due to the move from Nehammer to the Ministry of the Interior in the Federal Government Kurz II on January 7, 2020, Axel Melchior became his successor General Secretary of the ÖVP, Gaby Schwarz became his deputy. His seat on the National Council went to Rudolf Taschner , followed by Axel Melchior as media spokesman, and Ernst Gödl became the area spokesman for integration and migration .

Publications

• Continuing the path of change . In: Thomas Hofer , Barbara Tóth (Ed.): Election 2019. Strategies, Schnitzel, Scandals . Ecowin, Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7110-0254-9 , pp. 59 ff .
• as editor together with Bettina Rausch : Open for new things - analyzes and assessments of the first year of the new People's Party , Verlag Noir, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-9504382-2-2

Web links

Commons : Karl Nehammer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Karl Nehammer on meineabektiven.at
• Karl Nehammer on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Karl Nehammer on the BMI website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ÖAAB General Secretary Karl Nehammer . Retrieved November 8, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} meineabektiven.at: Karl Nehammer . Retrieved November 8, 2017.
3. ↑ ORF at / agencies red: Karl Nehammer: From the party headquarters to the interior ministry. January 2, 2020, accessed January 4, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Altkalksburger Vereinigung (Ed.): Altkalksburger Magazin . Vienna December 2018, p. 4 ( altkalksburger.org [PDF]).
5. ↑ ^{a b} curriculum vitae of Karl Nehammer. In: bmi.gv.at. Retrieved February 5, 2020 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Karl Nehammer on the website of the Austrian Parliament
7. ↑ Federal Ministry for Digitization and Business Location: Master's degrees in further education. Retrieved January 3, 2020 . 
8. ^ A steel helmet for Herrengasse: Portrait of the Interior Minister Karl Nehammer. In: Upper Austrian news . January 1, 2020, accessed January 2, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Karl Nehammers delicate mission. In: The press . January 1, 2020, accessed January 2, 2020 . 
10. ↑ 07 01 2020 at 18:38 by Thomas Prior: The turquoise rope teams. January 7, 2020, accessed April 20, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Nehammer's wife becomes spokeswoman for the defense department. In: ORF.at . January 5, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Karl Nehammer's wife becomes spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defense. In: DerStandard.at . January 5, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Nehammer changes from the Ministry of Defense to PR. In: DiePresse . July 28, 2020, accessed July 28, 2020 . 
14. ↑ orf.at: NR Presidium: Shortly defended decision for Köstinger . Article dated November 8, 2017, accessed November 8, 2017.
15. ↑ Addendum : Who Negotiates the Coalition . Article dated November 9, 2017, accessed November 10, 2017.
16. ^ Kurier: ÖVP: Catholic hardliner for human rights . Article from January 27, 2018, accessed on January 27, 2018.
17. ↑ orf.at: Nehammer follows Dönmez as ÖVP integration spokesman . Article dated September 25, 2018, accessed September 25, 2018.
18. ↑ courier: Nehammer is new ÖVP General Secretary . Article from January 20, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2018.
19. ↑ orf.at: Christoph Zarits becomes ÖAAB General Secretary . Article from January 29, 2018, accessed on January 29, 2018.
20. ^ New People's Party Vienna: Gernot Blümel is the top candidate for Vienna. July 5, 2019, accessed July 5, 2019 . 
21. ↑ NR election 2019: Federal list decided: ÖVP refrains from lateral entrants. August 5, 2019, accessed August 5, 2019 . 
22. ^ FPÖ sent Huebner again to the federal electoral authority. July 30, 2019, accessed July 31, 2019 . 
23. ^ ÖVP - Greens: Teams stand for coalition negotiations. In: ORF.at . November 12, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 . 
24. ↑ Axel Melchior becomes the new General Secretary of the ÖVP. In: The press . January 7, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 . 
25. ↑ New home for ministers, new mandataries, new speakers. In: The press . January 7, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 . 
26. ↑ clubs. In: parlament.gv.at. Parliamentary Directorate, accessed January 15, 2020 . 
27. ↑ ÖVP appoints area spokespersons - ANNEX. January 9, 2020, accessed January 15, 2020 .