Nikolaus Scherak

Nikolaus Scherak (2012)

Nikolaus Scherak (born October 16, 1986 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician . From 2010 to 2014 he was national chairman of JUNOS - Young Liberal NEOS and has been a board member of NEOS since 2012. Scherak has been a member of the Austrian National Council for NEOS - The New Austria and Liberal Forum since 2013 . Since June 23, 2018 he has been Deputy Federal Chairman of NEOS.

Life and work

Scherak grew up in Baden near Vienna and graduated from the Theresianum in 2004 . After a year of civil service as a paramedic with the Red Cross Vienna, he began a master's degree at the Juridicum of the University of Vienna, which he completed in 2010. Scherak completed a doctorate in law at the University of Vienna and a master's degree in human rights at the Danube University Krems .

politics

Scherak has been involved with the Young Liberals Austria (JuLis) since the European election campaign in 2009 . He was from July 2009 to November 2010 Deputy Federal Chairman of the Young Liberals and was on III. Federal Congress elected its federal chairman in October 2010.

His political priorities are in the area of ​​civil rights, human rights and intergenerational justice, which he also comments on in Austrian media (including Die Presse , Der Standard , ORF ).

Scherak was Lower Austria's top candidate for NEOS in the 2013 National Council elections and entered the National Council via the state list. On October 29, 2013, Scherak was sworn in for the first time as a member of the National Council. Since 2014 he has been the deputy chairman of the NEOS parliamentary club.

After the JuLis was integrated into the NEOS party structure and renamed JUNOS - Young Liberal NEOS on March 22, 2013, Scherak was elected national chairman of the new NEOS youth association at the federal congress. At the XI. Federal JUNOS Congress in Vienna, Scherak resigned as chairman of the JUNOS party and subsequently handed over the leadership of the NEOS party youth to Douglas Hoyos, who had previously been one of his deputies.

Private

Scherak plays soccer for the amateur team Irreal St. Leopold and won the 1st class DSG championship with it in 2013 .

Web links

Commons : Nikolaus Scherak  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Nikolaus Scherak
• Nikolaus Scherak on the Junos homepage
• Portrait of Scherak on the NEOS homepage
• Nikolaus Scherak on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Nikolaus Scherak on www.meineabektiven.at

Individual evidence

1. ^ Motions put forward by Scherak in the July resolution
2. ↑ Die Presse , September 17, 2009: Some were braver! Why we need voluntary and private pension provision.
3. ↑ Der Standard , November 15, 2011: Contradictions in Austrian Medical Law. Austria and the fear of medical progress.
4. ^ ORF 2 , in the center on October 3, 2010: Scherak on the retiree paradise of Austria
5. ↑ Der Standard , April 17, 2013: Scherak on education and youth policy
6. ↑ JuLis are now called JUNOS and are part of NEOS . Article on derStandard.at from March 22, 2014.
7. ↑ Player profile Nikolaus Scherak Irreal St. Leopold ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.