35 Notable alumni of
Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Johannes Kepler University Linz is 1206th in the world, 426th in Europe, and 10th in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from Johannes Kepler University Linz sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Reinhold Mitterlehner
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- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Reinhold Mitterlehner is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who served as minister of economy in Austria's government from 2008 until 2017. In September 2014 he also became vice chancellor of Austria and chairman of the ÖVP. On 9 May 2016 he briefly assumed powers and duties as Acting Chancellor of Austria while his coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party, underwent a change in leadership. After a series of quarrels within the grand coalition as well as his own party, Mitterlehner announced his resignation on 10 May 2017, which became effective on 17 May 2017.
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Udo Landbauer
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- politician
- Biography
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Udo Landbauer is an Austrian far-right politician from the FPÖ. From 2011 to 2018 he was head of the FPÖ Youth Ring, from 2010 to 2018 Landbauer was a municipal politician in Wiener Neustadt and from 2013 to 2018 he was a member of the provincial parliament (Landtag) of Lower Austria. He was the leading candidate of the FPÖ in the 2018 Lower Austrian provincial parliament elections. As a result of the affair surrounding the Germania zu Wiener Neustadt fraternity, he resigned from all political functions on 1 February 2018 and suspended his FPÖ party membership. On 20. September he returned as member of the Freedom Party of Austria to the Lower Austrian provincial parliament. On the same day he was elected as the head of the FPÖ of Lower Austria.
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Volker Türk
- Enrolled in Johannes Kepler University Linz
- Graduated with Master of Laws
- Occupations
- jurist
- Biography
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Volker Türk is an Austrian lawyer and United Nations official. He has been the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights since October 2022.
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Claudia Plakolm
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- politician
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Claudia Plakolm is an Austrian politician of the People's Party (ÖVP) and State Secretary in the federal government of Nehammer. She was sworn in as a member of the National Council on 9 November 2017. Since 15 May 2021 she has been the federal chairman of the Young People's Party (JVP).
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Manfred Haimbuchner
- Enrolled in Johannes Kepler University Linz
- In 2003 graduated with Magister Juris in legal science
- In 2006 graduated with Doctor of Laws in legal science
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
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Manfred Haimbuchner is a Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) politician. He served in the National Council from 2006 to 2009, and in the Landtag of Upper Austria as his party's leader since 2009. In 2015, he became Deputy Governor of the state.
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Hans Jörg Schelling
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- politicianeconomist
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Johann Georg "Hans Jörg" Schelling is an Austrian entrepreneur and politician of the Austrian People's Party and who served as Minister of Finance of Austria in the governments of chancellors Werner Faymann and Christian Kern.
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Barbara Prammer
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- politicianwedding officiantcivil servant
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Barbara Prammer was an Austrian politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). In 2006 she was the first woman to become President of the National Council of Austria, an office she held until her death.
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Thomas Stelzer
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- politician
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Thomas Stelzer is an Austrian politician who is serving as the current Governor of Upper Austria since 2017. Stelzer studied law at the Johannes Kepler University Linz from 1985 to 1990. Before becoming Governor, Stelzer was the Deputy Governor of Upper Austria from 2015 to 2017. He was a member of the Upper Austrian Parliament from 1997 to 2015.
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Gabriel Felbermayr
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- university teachereconomist
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Gabriel Felbermayr is an Austrian economist who has been serving as president of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) since 2021. He specializes in international economics, international trade agreements, economic policy, and environmental economics. Considered a leading economist in the field of international economics, he is cited in the top 5% of all economists and has been referred to as "Germany's Chief Economist of the North" ("Deutschlands neuer Chefökonom des Nordens").
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Thomas Drozda
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- statespersonpolitician
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Thomas Drozda is an Austrian politician and a member of the National Council. From 2016 to 2017 he was chancellery minister under the Kern government. Since September 2018 he has been serving as managing director of the Social Democratic Party.
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Maria Fekter
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- politician
- Biography
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Maria Theresia Fekter is an Austrian politician and was the Austrian Minister of Finance between 2011 and 2013. Before that, she was Minister of the Interior.
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Josef Pühringer
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- juristpolitician
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Josef Pühringer is a former Austrian politician.
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Christoph Leitl
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- entrepreneurpolitician
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Christoph Leitl is an Austrian politician. A member of the Austrian People's Party, he is the former president of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and president of EUROCHAMBRES since 2018.
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Ridho Rahmadi
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- politiciancomputer scientistacademiclecturer
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Ridho Rahmadi is an Indonesian politician, computer scientist and academic who is the current chairman of the Ummat Party, serving since the party's founding in 2021. He is the son-in-law of the party's founder Amien Rais.
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Wilhelm Molterer
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- politician
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Wilhelm Molterer is an Austrian politician who currently serves as the managing director of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI). Between 2011 and 2015 he was the vice-president and member of the Management Committee of the European Investment Bank (EIB). Before joining the EIB, he was Member of the Austrian Parliament. He has been Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister of Austria and chairman of the conservative Austrian People's Party.
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Ewald Nowotny
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- university teacherpoliticianeconomistbanker
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Ewald Nowotny is an Austrian economist and social democratic politician and former governor of Austria's central bank Oesterreichische Nationalbank. He was also a member of the European Central Bank’s governing council.
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Nina Tomaselli
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- politicianeconomist
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Nina Tomaselli is an Austrian politician of The Greens. Since 2019, she has been a member of the National Council. She was a member of the Landtag of Vorarlberg from 2014 to 2019, and a deputy spokesperson of The Greens from 2019 to 2022.
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Heinz Engl
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Heinz Werner Engl is an Austrian mathematician who served as the rector of the University of Vienna.
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Roman Haider
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- politician
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Roman Haider is an Austrian politician who is a member of European Parliament, and formerly a member of the National Council, for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).
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Thomas Henzinger
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- university teachercomputer scientistresearcher
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Thomas Henzinger is an Austrian computer scientist, researcher, and former president of the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.
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Magdalena Lobnig
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- rower
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Magdalena Lobnig is an Austrian rower. She won the double scull World U23 Championship in 2012 and the singles European Championship in 2016. In 2021, at the 2020 Summer Olympics she won the bronze medal in the Women's single sculls event.
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Eva-Maria Holzleitner
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- politician
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Eva-Maria Holzleitner is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party serving as a member of the National Council. She was first elected in the 2017 legislative election, and was re-elected in the 2019 election. From 2016 to 2021, she was the leader of Junge Generation in Upper Austria. Since 2021, she has served as a deputy leader of the Social Democratic Party and as leader of its women's wing SPÖ Frauen.
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Paul Rübig
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- blacksmithpolitician
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Paul Rübig is an Austrian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1996 until 2019. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party, part of the European People's Party.
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Josef Weidenholzer
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- sociologistpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Josef Weidenholzer is an Austrian politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2011 until 2019. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
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Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer
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- politician
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Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer is an Austrian politician of the People's Party. He was elected member of the National Council in the 2024 legislative election, and has served as state councillor for social affairs, integration and youth of Upper Austria since 2021.
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Martin Ehrenhauser
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- politician
- Biography
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Martin Ehrenhauser is an Austrian former Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He took his seat in the parliament in July 2009, when Hans-Peter Martin's List, an independent Austrian list led by author and MEP Hans-Peter Martin gained 17.7% of the Austrian vote in the 2009 elections for the European Parliament. He was defeated in 2014.
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Michael Raml
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- politician
- Biography
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Michael Raml is an Austrian politician who was a Member of the Federal Council for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) from 2015 to 2019.
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Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber
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- academic
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Wolfgang Franz Danspeckgruber is the Founding Director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University and has been teaching on issues of state, international security, self-determination, diplomacy, and crisis diplomacy at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Politics since 1988. He is also founder and chair of the Liechtenstein Colloquium on European and International Affairs, LCM, a private diplomacy forum.
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Andreas Altmann
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- professoreconomist
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Andreas Altmann is an Austrian economist.
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Maksym Kovalenko
- Enrolled in Johannes Kepler University Linz
- In 2007 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- chemist
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Maksym V. Kovalenko is a full professor of inorganic chemistry and the head of the Functional Inorganic Materials group at ETH Zurich. A part of the research activities of the group are conducted at Empa (Dübendorf). He is working in the fields of solid-state chemistry, quantum dots and other nanomaterials, surface chemistry, self-assembly, optical spectroscopy, optoelectronics and energy storage.
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Andreas Kiefer
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- politician
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Andreas Kiefer is an Austrian politician. Since 2010, he is Secretary General of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, an institution representing local and regional authorities of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.
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Agnes Sirkka Prammer
- Enrolled in Johannes Kepler University Linz
- Studied in 1996-2000
- Occupations
- legal counselorassociation football refereepoliticianlawyercontract servant
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Agnes Sirkka Prammer is an Austrian politician of The Greens. She has been a member of the National Council since 2020, and a municipal councillor of Leonding since 2015.
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Wolfgang Pree
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- computer scientistuniversity teacher
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Wolfgang Pree is a computer scientist and professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria.
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Rosa Ecker
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- politician
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Rosa Ecker is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the Federal Council for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) since 2015.
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Ingo Mörth
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- university teachersociologist
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Ingo Mörth is an Austrian sociologist.
