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Douglas Hoyos

Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff
General-Secretary of NEOS – The New Austria
Assumed office
1 August 2021
Preceded byNikola Donig
Member of the National Council
Assumed office
9 November 2017
ConstituencyFederal list
President of the JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS
In office
2014 – 2 November 2019
Preceded byNikolaus Scherak
Succeeded byAnna Stürgkh
Personal details
Born (1990-09-08) 8 September 1990 (age 34)
Klagenfurt, Austria
Political partyNEOS – The New Austria

Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff (German pronunciation: [ˈhoːjos ˈtʁaʊ̯tmanzdɔɐ̯f]; born 8 September 1990) is an Austrian politician of NEOS – The New Austria. He has served as a member of the National Council since 2017 and general-secretary of NEOS since 2021. Previously, he was president of the party's youth branch, JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS, from 2014 to 2019.[1]

Biography

Born into an ancient House of Hoyos, Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff is the eldest son of Austrian Count Rudolf Hoyos, Freiherr zu Stichsenstein (b. 1968) and his wife, Countess Franziska von Goëss (b. 1968).[2] He studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics from 2010.[3] Before 2017, he worked as a project manager at NEOS and a forestry company.[4]

In 2012, Hoyos was elected as General-Secretary of JuLis – Young Liberals Austria, a liberal youth organisation. He played a leading role in the integration of JuLis as the official youth branch of NEOS. In 2014, he was elected president of JuLis, now renamed as JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS. He left office in 2019.[1]

He was elected to the National Council on the NEOS federal list in the 2017 federal election. In 2021, he was elected general-secretary of NEOS.[5]

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