2018 in Austria

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Events in the year 2018 in Austria .

Incumbents

• President: Alexander Van der Bellen
• Chancellor: Sebastian Kurz

Governors

• Burgenland: Hans Niessl
• Carinthia: Peter Kaiser
• Lower Austria: Johanna Mikl-Leitner
• Salzburg: Wilfried Haslauer Jr.
• Styria: Hermann Schützenhöfer
• Tyrol: Günther Platter
• Upper Austria: Thomas Stelzer
• Vienna: Michael Häupl (until 24 May); Michael Ludwig (from 24 May)
• Vorarlberg: Markus Wallner

Events

February

• 2-3 February — Cyclone Burglind

• 12 February — Niklasdorf train collision

• February 28: Controversial police raid on the headquarters of Austria's domestic intelligence agency (BVT).

May

• May 28 – Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces to cut benefit for foreigners at 564 euros.he says “The fundamental rule we will introduce is that German will become the key to accessing the full minimum benefit,” “That means that whoever has insufficient language skills will not be able to claim the full minimum benefit". ^[1]

June

• June 8 – Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces its closing seven mosques and could expel up to 40 imams from the country. the mosques were accused of preaching Salafi positions and they were funded by turkey. ^[2]

Deaths

Ute Bock

• 1 January – Konrad Ragossnig, classical guitarist (b. 1932). ^[3]
• 13 January – Walter Schuster, alpine skier (b. 1929)
• 19 January – Ute Bock, educator and humanitarian (b. 1942). ^[4]

• 26 February – Thomas Pernes, composer (b. 1956)

• 3 March – Franz Pacher, engineer (b. 1919)

• 21 March – Martha Wallner, actress (b. 1927)

• 20 July – Heinz Schilcher, footballer (b. 1947). ^[5]

• 24 October – Rudolf Gelbard, Holocaust survivor (b. 1930)

References

1. "Austria doubles down on benefit cuts for foreigners". Archived from the original on May 28, 2018. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
2. "Austria's right-wing Government plans to shut down mosques, expel foreign-funded imams". ABC News. 8 June 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
3. "Konrad Ragossnig verstorben". gitarre-archiv.at (in German). Retrieved 7 January 2018.
4. "Flüchtlingshelferin Ute Bock 75-jährig verstorben". derstandard.at (in German). Retrieved 20 January 2018.
5. Wir Trauern Um Heinz Schilcher Archived 2018-07-20 at the Wayback Machine (in German)