Karl Nehammer

Karl Nehammer
Nehammer in 2024
29th Chancellor of Austria
Assumed office
6 December 2021
PresidentAlexander Van der Bellen
Vice-ChancellorWerner Kogler
Preceded byAlexander Schallenberg
Chair of the People's Party
Assumed office
14 May 2022
Acting: 3 December 2021 – 14 May 2022
Preceded bySebastian Kurz
Minister of the Interior
In office
7 January 2020 – 6 December 2021
ChancellorSebastian Kurz
Alexander Schallenberg
Preceded byWolfgang Peschorn
Succeeded byGerhard Karner
Secretary-General of the People's Party
In office
20 January 2018 – 3 January 2020
Preceded byStefan Steiner
Succeeded byAxel Melchior
Member of the National Council
In office
9 November 2017 – 7 January 2020
Succeeded byRudolf Taschner
Constituency9 – Vienna
Personal details
Born (1972-10-18) 18 October 1972 (age 52)
Vienna, Austria
Political partyPeople's Party
SpouseKatharina Nidetzky
Children2
Alma materUniversity for Continuing Education Krems

Karl Nehammer (German: [kaɐ̯l ˈneːhamɐ]; born 18 October 1972) is an Austrian politician who has been the 29th chancellor of Austria since 2021. A member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), he previously was Minister of the Interior from 2020 to 2021, general secretary of the ÖVP from 2018 to 2020, as well as a member of the National Council from 2017 to 2020. Nehammer assumed the chancellorship as the successor of Alexander Schallenberg, who resigned to return as Minister of Foreign Affairs.[1]

  1. ^ "Karl Nehammer, MSc". National Council (in German). Retrieved 3 December 2021.