Christian Hafenecker
Christian Hafenecker, born on August 11, 1980 in Mödling (Niederösterreich), is an Austrian politician and Member of Parliament for the FPÖ (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs; Freedom Party of Austria). From 2010 to 2013, Hafenecker was a Member of the State Parliament of Lower Austria and is active, since 2013, as a Member of the Federal and National Council. He lives in Kaumberg.
Political Career[edit]
Hafenecker worked from 2008 to 2011 as a national press officer of the FPÖ Lower Austria. He was elected in 1999 as a member of the district leadership Lilienfeld, and in 2000, to the municipal council of the municipality Kaumberg. Since 2006, he has been a managing councillor. Furthermore, he was State Chairman Deputy, of the Rings Freiheitlicher Jugend between 2001 and 2003, and from 2003 to 2005, the FPÖ-district party chairman in the district of Lilienfeld, before he was elected as District FPÖ party chairman in 2005.
That same year, he also took over the function of the local party chairman of the local branch Kaumberg and in 2008 he became a member of the national party executive of the FPÖ Lower Austria. On July 1, 2010 he was sworn in after the departure of Charles Schwab as a Member of the State Parliament of Lower Austria. There he was responsible for the departments of defence, municipal, youth and aviation. He moved on April 24, 2013 to the Federal Council, and is since June 2013, he is also the Secretary of the provincial party FPÖ Lower Austria. In the national elections of September 2013, Hafenecker achieved in his constituency of NÖ Mitte a basic mandate, which he accepted at the inaugural meeting of the National Council in October.
Education[edit]
Hafenecker went to a military secondary school in Wiener Neustadt. He then began an apprenticeship as a farm equipment technician. In 2002, he succeeded the vocational matriculation examination and subsequently studied Law at the University of Vienna.
