Nehammer came into the spotlight of the international public after the Vienna terrorist attack on November 2, 2020.
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Vienna Some contemptuously call Austria’s new Federal Chancellor a party soldier. His companions and supporters put it more politely: The 49-year-old Karl Nehammer is a politician who is well anchored in his ÖVP party. And that is probably an important reason why the conservative ruling party now wants to appoint the interior minister as chancellor. It should also represent a turning point in the turquoise system of ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
Like him, Nehammer has spent a large part of his professional life in politics. Although he comes from Vienna, his base was for a long time the federal state of Lower Austria, a stronghold of the ÖVP.
At the age of 14, Nehammer took part in an election campaign in 1986 and distributed leaflets for the then ÖVP boss Alois Mock. Later he was Secretary General of the Austrian Workers’ Union (ÖAAB), an organization of the ÖVP. From 2018 to 2020 he was General Secretary for them before becoming Minister of the Interior at the beginning of 2020.
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