Karl Nehammer

Karl Nehammer
Nehammer in 2023
Chancellor of Austria
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 December 2021
President	Alexander Van der Bellen
Vice-Chancellor	Werner Kogler
Preceded by	Alexander Schallenberg
Chair of the People's Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 May 2022 Acting: 3 December 2021 – 14 May 2022
Preceded by	Sebastian Kurz
Minister of the Interior
In office 7 January 2020 – 6 December 2021
Chancellor	Sebastian Kurz Alexander Schallenberg
Preceded by	Wolfgang Peschorn
Succeeded by	Gerhard Karner
Secretary-General of the People's Party
In office 20 January 2018 – 3 January 2020
Preceded by	Stefan Steiner
Succeeded by	Axel Melchior
Member of the National Council
In office 9 November 2017 – 7 January 2020
Succeeded by	Rudolf Taschner
Constituency	9 – Vienna
Personal details
Born	(1972-10-18) 18 October 1972 (age 51) Vienna, Austria
Political party	People's Party
Spouse	Katharina Nidetzky
Children	2
Alma mater	University for Continuing Education Krems

Karl Nehammer (German: [kaɐ̯l ˈneːhamɐ]; born 18 October 1972) is an Austrian politician who is the 32nd and current chancellor of Austria since 6 December 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]