Stefan Steiner (politician)

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Stefan Steiner (born May 9, 1978 ) is an Austrian civil servant and politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). From June 2017 to January 2018 he was General Secretary of the ÖVP.

Life

Stefan Steiner grew up in Wieselburg and in Turkey because his parents worked as teachers at the St. Georgs College . He lived in Istanbul until his Matura and speaks fluent Turkish . Steiner studied law at the University of Vienna and graduated with a doctorate in 2004 . He then worked as a consultant in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. From October 2005 Steiner was responsible for the civil service agency, first as deputy head, from January 2006 as head. Then Steiner was an advisor in the cabinet of the Interior Ministers Günther Platter and Maria Fekter . In 2011, Sebastian Kurz brought Steiner into the newly created State Secretariat for Integration , where he was promoted to head of the section .

In June 2017 Steiner switched to the Federal ÖVP, where he was Secretary General alongside Elisabeth Köstinger . Karl Nehammer succeeded him in this position on January 25, 2018 . Steiner is considered to be an important advisor to Sebastian Kurz . In addition to Sebastian Kurz, Elisabeth Köstinger, Gernot Blümel and Bettina Glatz-Kremsner , he was a member of the ÖVP steering group in the course of the formation of the government after the 2017 National Council election .

Stefan Steiner is married to Birgitta Steiner, father of three children and lives in Vienna. His brother close to the ÖVP is Thomas Steiner, who, like his brother, worked in the Fekter cabinet at the same time as Sebastian Kurz and was managing director of the Federal Finance Agency until May 2019 and has since been one of the directors of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank .

His wife's sister - Steiner's sister-in-law - is the incumbent Austrian Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stefan Steiner becomes the new political head of the ÖVP on ots.at. Retrieved October 25, 2017
  2. ↑ a b NÖN: Wieselburger Stefan Steiner becomes Kurz's advisor . Article from January 20, 2018, accessed on January 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c Thomas Prior: Stefan Steiner or: How to learn from Josef Pröll's mistakes. In: The press . August 19, 2017. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Klaus Knittelfelder: Kurz advisor: "I have a problem with ideological drawers". In: Courier . October 28, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ courier: Nehammer is new ÖVP General Secretary . Article from January 20, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2018.
  6. ↑ Christian Böhmer and Bernhard Gaul: Government poker starts: "We won't make it easy for the ÖVP". In: Courier. October 24, 2017. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Christian Eplinger: Stefan Steiner: The man behind Sebastian Kurz. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . October 31, 2017, accessed November 2, 2017 .
  8. ↑ "If you are looking for risk, don't buy Austrian government bonds" in the Raiffeisenblatt, accessed on September 27, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), General Secretary of the ÖVP
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1978