Sebastian Kurz
| Sebastian Kurz | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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Assumed office 16 December 2013 |
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| Chancellor |
Werner Faymann Reinhold Mitterlehner (Acting) Christian Kern |
| Preceded by | Michael Spindelegger |
| Chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe | |
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In office 1 January 2017 – 1 January 2018 (scheduled) |
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| Succeeded by | TBD |
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| Born |
27 August 1986 Vienna, Austria |
| Political party | Austrian People's Party |
Sebastian Kurz (born 27 August 1986) is an Austrian politician, who has been Austria's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration since 2013. He had been described as the youngest Minister for Foreign Affairs and integration throughout the world and European history, at an age of 27. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP).
Kurz was born in Vienna and brought up in the city district of Meidling, where he still lives. He entered the Bundesgymnasium und Bundesrealgymnasium Erlgasse in 1996 and after his final exam in 2004 Kurz completed the obligatory military service. In 2011, he decided to suspend his law studies at the University of Vienna and to pursue his political career instead.
In 2009 Kurz was elected chairman of the youth branch of the Austrian People's Party. Between 2010 and 2011 he was member of Vienna's city council, where he focused on generational fairness and ensuring pensions. In April 2011 Kurz was appointed to the newly created post of State Secretary for Integration (part of the Ministry of the Interior).
In the 2013 general election, Kurz was elected as a member of parliament. He won the most direct votes of any member of parliament in the election.
In December 2013, Kurz became Austria's Foreign Minister, whose portfolio was at his request widened to include Social integration. At the time of his swearing-in Kurz was Austria's youngest government minister since the foundation of the republic and the youngest foreign minister in the European Union and the world.
His first trip abroad took Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz to Croatia, marking the continuous Austrian support for an EU-membership of the Southeast Europe.
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