Gerhard Karner
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Gerhard Karner | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2013 | |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| Assumed office 6 December 2021 | |
| Chancellor | Karl Nehammer Christian Stocker |
| Preceded by | Karl Nehammer |
| Member of the Landtag of Lower Austria | |
| Assumed office 30 March 2003 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 November 1967 |
| Party | People's |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| Cabinet | Nehammer |
Gerhard Karner (born 13 November 1967) 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.
Gerhard Karner spent his childhood and youth in St. Gotthard (municipality of Texingtal) and graduated from Melk Abbey High School, later studying business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He then worked in the private sector as a press officer for the Lower Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He later served as press spokesman for Interior Minister Ernst Strasser, and as a regional manager of the ÖVP Lower Austria.
Politics
Karner was politically active as a local councilor in Texingtal from 1995, and from April 24, 2003 also as an ÖVP member in the Lower Austrian state parliament. Karner was security spokesman for the ÖVP state parliament club.[1] On October 22, 2015, he became second president of the state parliament.[2] In the same year he was also mayor of Texingtal. On December 3, 2021, he was nominated as Minister of the Interior in the designated federal government of Nehammer and sworn in by the Federal President on December 6, 2021.[3] he lay with his swearing in as Minister down all communal and national political offices.[4]
His state parliament mandate went to Marlene Zeidler-Beck,[5] as second state parliament president Karl Moser should succeed him.[6]
On 8 December 2022 he was one of the architects of blocking Romania's and Bulgaria's access to the Schengen area.[7]
