57 Notable alumni of
Vienna University of Economics and Business
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The Vienna University of Economics and Business is 742nd in the world, 266th in Europe, and 7th in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 57 notable alumni from the Vienna University of Economics and Business sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Dietrich Mateschitz
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- entrepreneur
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Dietrich Markwart Eberhart Mateschitz was an Austrian billionaire businessman. He was the co-founder and 49% owner of Red Bull GmbH. In April 2022, Mateschitz's net worth was estimated at US$27.4 billion.
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Wolfgang Porsche
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- businesspersonbusiness executive
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Wolfgang Heinz Porsche is a German-Austrian manager and a member of the Porsche family. He is a shareholder and chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porsche Automobil Holding SE as well as of Porsche AG. He is the youngest son of Ferdinand (Ferry) Porsche and Dorothea Reitz. His oldest brother is Ferdinand (Butzi) Porsche, designer of the Porsche 911.
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Jakov Milatović
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- civil servant
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Jakov Milatović is a Montenegrin politician and economist who is the incumbent president of Montenegro, serving since May 2023. He previously served as the minister of economic development in the cabinet of Zdravko Krivokapić from 2020 to 2022, and as an economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and Podgorica. He was a co-founder and until 24 February 2024 the deputy leader of Europe Now!, a liberal and pro-European political party that is the largest single party in the Montenegrin parliament.
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Gernot Blümel
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- politician
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Gernot Blümel is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He served as Austria's finance minister from 2020 to 2021, having announced his resignation shortly after Alexander Schallenberg's resignation on 2 December 2021. Since 2015, he has been the chairman of the Vienna branch of the ÖVP. Prior, he was Chancellery minister for European Affairs, Art, Culture, and Media from 2017 to 2019; he was also General Secretary of the ÖVP from 2013 to 2015.
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Hans Peter Haselsteiner
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- politician
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Hans Peter Haselsteiner is an Austrian industrialist and former politician.
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Thomas Klestil
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Graduated with Diploma of Business Administration
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomateconomist
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Thomas Klestil was an Austrian diplomat and politician who served as the president of Austria from 1992 until his death in 2004. He was elected in 1992 and re-elected in 1998.
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Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
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- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is an Austrian businessman. He is the chairman emeritus, former chairman and CEO (1997–2008) of the Nestlé Group, and former chairman of Formula One.
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Johanna Mikl-Leitner
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Economics and Business
- 1983-1989 graduated with magister degree in business and economics education
- Occupations
- politician
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Johanna Mikl-Leitner is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and since 2017 the governor of Lower Austria.
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Franz Vranitzky
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- politicianbasketball playereconomistbanker
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Franz Vranitzky is an Austrian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), he was Chancellor of Austria from 1986 to 1997.
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Hartwig Löger
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Hartwig Löger is an Austrian politician and former business executive who served as minister of finance from 2017 to 2019. From 2011 to 2017 he was chief executive officer of UNIQA Austria. On 22 May 2019, following the Ibiza affair, he was named vice chancellor, and on 28 May 2019, he was sworn in as acting chancellor after Austria's first ever successful vote of no confidence against a cabinet, leaving this post on 3 June 2019.
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Vlad Voiculescu
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- politicianeconomist
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Vlad Vasile Voiculescu is a Romanian politician and former Romanian Minister of Health in the Cîțu Cabinet (affiliated with the Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party, PLUS) whose term lasted from 23 December 2020 until he was revoked on 14 April 2021 by PNL Prime Minister Florin Cîțu. He formerly served in the same position in the Cioloș Cabinet between May 2016 and January 2017.
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Margarete Schramböck
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- politicianeconomistmanagersocial scientist
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Margarete Schramböck is an Austrian business manager and politician who served as minister of digital and economic affairs in the Second Kurz government, the Schallenberg government and the Nehammer government from January 2020 to May 2022; she previously served in this position from December 2017 to June 2019 in the First Kurz government. From May 2016 to October 2017, she was the chief executive officer of A1 Telekom Austria. Schramböck is a member of the Austrian People's Party.
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Hannes Androsch
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- tax advisorministerpoliticianentrepreneurauditor
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Johannes "Hannes" Androsch was an Austrian businessman, consultant and Social Democrat politician. He served as an Austrian Finance Minister from 1970 to 1981, and as Vice Chancellor from 1976 to 1981. As a banker, from 1981 to 1988 he was the general director of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein (Austria’s leading bank at that time), and subsequently an advisor to the World Bank. From 1989 onward he built an industrial investment group, Androsch International Consulting (AIC), which is a major factor in Austria's internationally active corporate landscape. In addition, Androsch's foundation is an important sponsor of research and development activities in Austria, where he was regularly consulted on matters of political, economic and financial importance.
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Sophie Karmasin
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- politician
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Sophie Karmasin is an opinion researcher who was Minister for Families and Youth of Austria for four years.
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Elisabeth Gürtler
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- entrepreneurDiploma of Business Administration
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Elisabeth Gürtler-Mauthner is an Austrian businesswoman. She is managing director of the Hotel Sacher, Vienna's most famous hotel.
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Julia Ebner
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Economics and Business
- 2009-2013 graduated with Bachelor of Science in international business
- Occupations
- political adviserresearcher
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Julia Ebner is an Austrian researcher and author based in London. She has written the books The Rage: the Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism, Going Dark: the Secret Social Lives of Extremists and Going Mainstream: how extremists are taking over.
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Marc Jongen
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Studied general economics
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianjournalistphilosopher
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Marc Stephan Jongen is a German politician (AfD). From 2003 to 2017 he was a research assistant for philosophy at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe.
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Claudia Gamon
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Economics and Business
- 2007-2015 graduated with Master of Science in business administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Claudia Angela Gamon is an Austrian politician and former student union functionary who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024. Gamon has been a member of the National Council of Austria since October 2015.
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Madeleine Petrovic
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- politician
- Biography
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Madeleine Petrovic is an Austrian politician. From 1994 to 1996 she was federal spokesperson of the Austrian Green Party.
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Peter Löscher
- Occupations
- entrepreneurchief executive officer
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Peter Löscher is an Austrian manager who was the CEO of Siemens from 2007 until 2013. As of 2017, Löscher remains as the only CEO to be hired from outside the conglomerate in the 170-year history of Siemens. Before joining Siemens, he worked as president for Global Human Health at global pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.
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Valerie Hackl
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- politicianmanagerathlete
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Valerie Hackl is an Austrian businesswoman and the managing director of Austro Control. In 2019, she briefly served as minister of infrastructure.
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Petra Steger
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Studied in 2006
- Occupations
- basketball playerpolitician
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Petra Steger is an Austrian politician and member of the European Parliament for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). She was a member of the National Council from 2023 to 2024. She is also a former professional basketball player.
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Andrian Candu
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- politician
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Andrian Candu is a former Moldovan politician, who served as President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova between 2015 and 2019. He left political life and went back to consultancy business, being focused on advisory and business project development, where previously he has built a successful career. Candu served as Vice President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova from 30 May 2013 to 11 July 2014, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy of the Republic of Moldova from 2 July 2014 – 23 January 2015, President of the Parliament Of the Republic of Moldova between 23 January 2015 – 24 February 2019, deputy of the PDM faction in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova in 3 consecutive legislatures: 24 December 2010 – 11 July 2014, 9 December 2014 - 9 March 2019, 9 March 2019 – 19 February 2020. On 20 February 2020, together with five Members of the Parliament, Andrian Candu formed the Pro Moldova Parliamentary Group, which was later registered as a political party, which he chaired for 1.5 years.
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Gerhard Karner
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- politician
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Gerhard Karner is an Austrian politician currently serving as minister of the interior. From 2003, Karner was a member of the Lower Austrian state legislature. From 2003 to 2015, he was managing director of the People's Party of Lower Austria (VPNÖ). Following the 2015 mayoral election, he became mayor of Texingtal and retained this position until 2021.
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Hikmet Ersek
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- businessperson
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Hikmet Ersek is a Turkish businessman who is the former CEO of Western Union. He is also the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Austria in Denver for Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming, in the United States.
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Andrea Kdolsky
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Studied retail management
- Occupations
- politicianhealth economistmedical specialistnon-fiction writer
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Andrea Kdolsky is an Austrian physician and retired politician (Non-party, until 2023 ÖVP) who was Minister for Health, Family and Youth in the Gusenbauer government.
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Atanas Pekanov
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- university teachereconomist
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Atanas Angelov Pekanov is a Bulgarian economist and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister in 2021 and from 2022 to 2023. A political independent, his portfolio was the management of funds by the European Union.
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Ferdinand Lacina
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- politician
- Biography
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Ferdinand Lacina is an Austrian politician. He served as finance minister from 1986 to 1995.
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Christoph Chorherr
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- politician
- Biography
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Christoph Chorherr is an Austrian politician. From 1996 until December 1997 he was federal spokesperson of the Austrian Green Party.
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Max Auschnitt
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- businessperson
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Max Carol Auschnitt, also known as Ausschnitt, Auschnit or Aușnit, was a Romanian businessman and political figure, one of his country's most prominent industrialists during the interwar period. Born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, he spent much of his youth abroad, returning in the 1910s to set up business as an importer of sheet iron, greatly expanding his father's fortune after World War I. Auschnitt was caretaker, and from 1929 managing director, of the Iron Domains and Factory (UDR) of Reșița, as well as founder of Titan-Nădrag-Călan (TNC), regional partner of Vickers-Armstrongs, and investor in many other fields. Primarily known as the "iron king" of Greater Romania, he had a business connection, and later a consuming rivalry, with manufacturer Nicolae Malaxa. The two were associate owners of Creditanstalt, which established their presence in Europe.
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Andreas J. Köstenberger
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- editortheologian
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Andreas Johannes Köstenberger is Research Professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Until 2018, he was Senior Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Kostenberger now teaches in an adjunct position at BJU Seminary in Greenville, SC. His primary research interests are the Gospel of John, biblical theology, and hermeneutics.
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Mirko Kovats
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- entrepreneur
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Mirko Kovats is an Austrian businessman and investor mainly known for his role as founder, majority owner (indirectly, through his private foundation known as "MUST") and chairman of A-TEC Industries, which was one of the largest industrial groups in Austria until it went bankrupt in 2014.
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Kosta Vojinović
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- gendarmemerchantmilitary personnelmilitary officer
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Kosta Vojinović, known by his nickname Kosovac (Косовац), was a Serbian soldier who fought in the Balkan Wars and World War I, most notably as a leader of the Toplica Uprising.
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Andreas Hanger
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- general managerpolitician
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Andreas Hanger is an Austrian politician of the People's Party. He has been a member of the National Council since 2013, and has served as leader of the People's Party in the Amstetten District since 2015.
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Cathy Zimmermann
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- television presenterradio personalitynews presenter
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Austrian television host Cathy Zimmermann was born on October 6, 1981, in Vienna, Austria.
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Christoph Badelt
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- university teachereconomist
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Christoph Badelt is the current director of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research and professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He was the Vienna University of Economics and Business's vice-chancellor from March 2002 until September 2015.
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Andreas Salcher
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- writerpolitician
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Andreas Salcher is a former Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), co-founder of the Sir-Karl-Popper-Schule, consultant and author.
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Barbara Kappel
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- office managerpolitician
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Barbara Kappel is an Austrian politician. From 2010 to 2014 she was a member of the FPÖ in the Vienna State Parliament and City Council. She then moved, initially as a non-attached member, to the European Parliament, where she was a member of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group until she left in June 2019.
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Claudia Schmied
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- politician
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Claudia Schmied is an Austrian politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria.
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Franziska Gminder
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- politician
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Franziska Gminder is a German politician for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of Bundestag. She is member of the völkisch-nationalistic faction "the wing" within her party.
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Claus Raidl
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- manager
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Claus Raidl was an Austrian banker. He was president of the Austrian National Bank from 2008 to 2018. Raidl died on 10 December 2024, at the age of 82.
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Angelika Winzig
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- politician
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Angelika Winzig is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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Walter Rothensteiner
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- banker
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Walter Rothensteiner is the Chairman of the Raiffeisen Zentralbank.
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Tomasz Froelich
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- politicianassociation football player
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Tomasz Mariusz Froelich is a German politician of Alternative for Germany who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. He has served as vice chair of the Young Alternative since 2019.
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Maria Schaumayer
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- politicianbankereconomist
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Maria Schaumayer was an Austrian economist and politician, a member of the Austrian People's Party. From 1990 to 1995, she served as the Governor of the Austria’s central bank, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB). In 1996, she was named an Honorary Citizen of Vienna, and in 2000, she was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.
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Bettina Vollath
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- politician
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Bettina Vollath is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 until 2022.
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Wolf Klinz
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- politician
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Wolf Klinz is a German politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP), part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), from 2004 until 2014 and from 2017 until 2019.
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Leopold Windtner
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Leopold "Leo" Windtner is general manager of Energie AG Oberösterreich and honorary president of the Austrian Football Association (German: Österreichischer Fußball-Bund, ÖFB).
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Christoph Meineke
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- politician
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Christoph Meineke is a German non-party politician and since January 2007 the first directly elected strong mayor of the municipality of Wennigsen (Deister).
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Stefan Siegel
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- physician
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Stefan Siegel is the founder of Not Just a Label, an online platform for emerging voices in fashion.
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Karlheinz Rüdisser
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Economics and Business
- 1975-1980 graduated with magister degree in economics
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- politician
- Biography
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Karlheinz Rüdisser is an Austrian politician for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), who, since December 2011, is the state administrator of Vorarlberg.
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Zygmunt Vetulani
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- diplomateconomist
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Zygmunt Michał Vetulani was a Polish diplomat and economist. He was a general consul of Rzeczpospolita in Kaliningrad, Baghdad and Rio de Janeiro.
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Karin Scheele
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- politician
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Karin Scheele is an Austrian social democratic politician and was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 till 2008. In December 2008, she entered the regional government of her native Land of Lower Austria to become secretary in charge of Health and Social Affairs.
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Isabella Kresche
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Economics and Business
- In 2017 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Isabella "Bella" Kresche is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Italian Serie A club Roma, joining them in September 2024 from, US Sassuolo and the Austria women's national team, which she represents since 2022.
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Felix Hnat
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- animal welfare
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Felix Hnat is an Austrian animal rights activist and chairman of the Vegan Society Austria (Vegane Gesellschaft Österreich, VGÖ). Hnat was the second defendant alongside Martin Balluch in the controversial 2010–2011 animal rights activist trial at Wiener Neustadt, where he was eventually acquitted of all charges.
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Moritz Neumüller
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- photographerwriterexhibition curatoruniversity teacher
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Moritz Neumüller is a curator, educator and writer in the field of photography and new media.
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Reinhard Pisec
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- politician
- Biography
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Reinhard Pisec is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the Federal Council for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) since 2010.
