Sankt Pölten,mostly abbreviated to the official name St. Pölten,is the capital and largest city of the State of Lower Austria in northeast Austria,with 55,538 inhabitants as of 1 January 2020. St. Pölten is a city with its own statute and therefore it is both a municipality and a district in the Mostviertel. Due to its cultural status,it has recently enjoyed an increase of visitors passing through Sankt Pölten on their way to Vienna.
Herbert Haupt is an Austrian politician and former party chairman of the Austrian Freedom Party. Haupt was Minister of Social Affairs from 2000 until 2005 in a coalition government headed by Wolfgang Schüssel. He was also Vice Chancellor of Austria from 28 February 2003 until 20 October 2003.
The current coat of arms of the Republic of Austria has been in use in its first forms by the First Republic of Austria since 1919. Between 1934 and the German annexation in 1938,the Federal State used a different coat of arms,which consisted of a double-headed eagle.
Herbert Bösch is an Austrian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1995 until 2009.
Alexander "Sascha" Van der Bellen,also referred to by the abbreviation VdB,is an Austrian politician serving as the 12th president of Austria since 2017. He previously served as a professor of economics at the University of Vienna,and after joining politics,as the spokesman of the Austrian Green Party.
The Alliance for the Future of Austria is a right-wing populist,national conservative political party in Austria.
Michael Spindelegger is an Austrian politician. He served in the cabinet of Chancellor Werner Faymann as foreign minister of Austria from 2008 to 2013 and as finance minister from 2013 to 2014;additionally,he held the office of vice-chancellor from 2011 to 2014. Spindelegger was also the leader of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) from 2011 to 2014. In August 2014 he unexpectedly resigned from all political positions. Since 2016,he has been serving as Director General of the Vienna-based International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).
Ewald Johann Stadler,is an Austrian right-wing conservative politician. He was a member of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) until 2007,and a member of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) from 2007 until 2013. He ran for the European Parliament in 2009 as BZÖ's leading candidate and was a member of the European Parliament from 2011 to 2014. In 2014 he was chosen as the first party leader of The Reform Conservatives (REKOS).
The Pro Germany Citizens' Movement was a far-right political party in Germany. It was founded in Cologne on 20 January 2005 as apart of the Pro-movement after Pro Cologne members had been elected to the Cologne City Council. Manfred Rouhs,treasurer of the Pro Cologne movement and former candidate of the German League for People and Homeland and the National Democratic Party of Germany,was elected its first chairman. The federal party convent decided at its ninth ordinary meeting in Wuppertal on 11 November 2017 to dissolve the party.
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.
Michael Gerdes is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2009.
Florian Oßner is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2013 German federal election.
Andreas Schnider is an Austrian theologian,academic teacher,author,publisher,consultant and politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He was the leader of the party's regional section Steirische Volkspartei in Styria from 2001 to 2010,and a member of the Bundesrat from 2002 to 2010.
Stefan Michael Newerkla is an Austrian linguist,Slavist and philologist. He has taught as Professor of West Slavic Linguistics at the University of Vienna since 2004 and has been Full Member (Fellow) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2018.
Christian Drobits is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party,he has represented Burgenland since October 2019. He was a member of the Landtag Burgenland from July 2015 to October 2019.
Manfred Sams is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party serving as a member of the National Council since 2024. He has served as chairman of the ASKÖ in Wels since 2011.
Wolfgang Gerstl is an Austrian politician of the People's Party serving as a member of the National Council since 2017. He was a member of the Municipal Council and Landtag of Vienna from 2001 to 2010,and a member of the government of Vienna from 2010 to 2011.
