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Norbert Hofer
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Austrian politician (born 1971)
Key facts
- President
- Wolfgang Sobotka
- Preceded by
- Anneliese Kitzmüller
- Succeeded by
- Doris Bures
- Chancellor
- Sebastian Kurz
- Nominated by
- Himself
- Affiliation
- Freedom Party
- Constituency
- 1 – Burgenland
- Born
- Norbert Gerwald Hofer , ( 1971-03-02 ) 2 March 1971 (age 55) , Vorau , Hartberg-Fürstenfeld , Styria , Austria
- Party
- Freedom Party
- Spouse
- Verena Malus
- Website
- Parliament website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- First Kurz government
- Family name
- Hofer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Place of birth
- Vorau
- Occupation
- engineer
- Employer
- Austrian Federal Government
- Political party
- Austrian Freedom Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- Austrian German
- Official website
- www.norberthofer.at
- Image
- Norbert Hofer - FPÖ-Neujahrstreffen 2019.JPG
- Number of children
- 4
- Work location
- Eisenstadt
- Residence
- Pinkafeld
- Significant event
- aviation accident
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- date of birth
- 1971-03-02
- Commons category
- Norbert Hofer
- name in native language
- Norbert Gerwald Hofer
- medical condition
- paresis
- social media followers
- 31753
- P10632
- Norbert Hofer
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Encyclopedic overview
Norbert Gerwald Hofer ( Austrian German: [ˈnɔrbɛrt ˈhoːfɐ]; born 2 March 1971) is an Austrian politician who was the leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) from June 2019 to June 2021. He previously served as minister of transport, innovation, and technology from 2017 to 2019 under Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
Hofer served as third president of the National Council from 2013 to 2017. He was his party's candidate in the 2016 presidential election. Hofer won the first round, receiving 35.1%, but was defeated by The Greens' candidate Alexander Van der Bellen, 53.8% against 46.2%, in the final runoff (an earlier runoff was invalidated).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Norbert Hofer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.